Butler Bears Wrestling Results - January 27th

BUTLER, Mo – On Tuesday, Jan 27, the Butler Bears varsity wrestling team traveled to Diamond for a tri-meet with Diamond and El Dorado Springs. The Bears won both duals. In varsity matches wrestled against Diamond, the Bears went 1-2. In varsity matches wrestled against El Dorado Springs, the Bears went 3-1.

Dual scores: Butler v Diamond – 30-18

Butler v El Dorado Springs – 28-27

Butler vs Diamond

106 Both schools open

113 Jacob Shipley (Butler) won by forfeit

120 Both schools open

126 Both schools open

132 Kenton Taylor (Butler) won by forfeit

138 Remington Renfro (Diamond) won by decision 11-9 over Tayje Van Voorst (Butler)

145 Dylan Morris (Butler) won by forfeit

152 Brett Behringer (Butler) won by forfeit

160 Keith Steward (Butler) pinned Adrian Lanham (Diamond) at 3:54

170 Kyle Williams (Diamond) won by decision 13-12 over Reid Davis (Butler)

182 Colton Renfro (Diamond) won by forfeit

195 Ethan McLaughlin (Diamond) won by forfeit

220 Both schools open

285 Both schools open

FINAL DUAL SCORE- BUTLER 30 Diamond 18

Butler vs El Dorado Springs

106 Both schools open

113 Both schools open

120 Cody Long (El Dorado Springs) won by forfeit

126 Both schools open

132 Nathan Baker (Butler) won by forfeit

138 Kenton Taylor (Butler) pinned Tommy Cornejo (El Dorado Springs) at 3:45

145 Tayje Van Voorst (Butler) won by forfeit

152 Dylan Morris (Butler) won by decision 12-7 over Matthew Thurman (El Dorado Springs)

160 Dayton Austin (El Dorado Springs) won by decision 9-7 over Brett Behringer (Butler)

170 Reid Davis (Butler) pinned Tyler O’Banion (El Dorado Springs) at 3:33

182 Both schools open

195 Blake Holder (El Dorado Springs) won by forfeit

220 Jacob Holder (El Dorado Springs) won by forfeit

285 Landon Leonard (El Dorado Springs) won by forfeit

FINAL DUAL SCORE- BUTLER 28 El Dorado Springs 27

Coach’s Comments

“Tonight we were able to do something that we haven’t achieved in the past two seasons- ensure a winning dual season. With the opponents that we have remaining in our final 5 duals, we could all but guarantee a winning dual record tonight with 2 wins. Our dual schedule strength isn’t incredible, but with as many open weight classes as we have shown during the season, this is a remarkable achievement by this group. A few of our wrestlers went to the well too many times on one or two moves that weren’t working for them during the Diamond dual. Lessons learned hopefully. Sheer roster size all but determined that we would win the dual no matter what, though. We had a rematch dual against El Dorado Springs, a team that we wrestled three weeks ago here at Butler, where we lost a rough dual on a disappointing night. We showed more resilience this time around, facing a few new opponents and also missing one of our normal starters due to illness. Young wrestlers had to step up and bump around to give us hope. Dylan Morris wrestled a terrific tactical match at 152 in the El Dorado Springs dual, giving us one of the 2 swing matches we really needed for the win. However, we lost a very winnable match at 160 in the same dual which put things on the ropes again. In the final match of the night, Kenton Taylor (138) had to chase down his opponent most of the first period of his match, finally getting in a good ride and securing the fall to tie things up. Then, based on tie-breaker criteria, we locked up the win by a single point- 28-27. This isn’t a team of superstars, but this is a team of every-day kids who work hard with good attitudes- every day. They deserved to win these duals, and they deserve their new distinction as the group who turned us back into a winning dual team this season.

Butler Bears Wrestling Results - January 27th