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Arizona State: Enters the season
ranked as the preseason No. 1 at 59kg (130 pounds) in the Collegiate
Women's rankings... reigning national women's collegiate champion
(63kg). Pacific: Competed for one season at
Pacific in Forest Grove, Ore.... placed fifth at the Sunkist Kids/ASU
International Open in both 2004 and 2005... sixth at the Clansmen
International Open. ASU (Club): Competed in one
tournament for Arizona State (club), winning the 2007 Women's
Collegiate National Championships in Forest Grove, Ore.... it was the
first tournament victory of her career... captured the 63kg (138.5
pounds) division, going 3-0 in the tournament... unseeded in the event,
knocked off No. 4, No. 1 and No. 2 for the national title... defeated
No. 2 Emily Rinehart (Missouri Valley), 1-1, 2-0, 3-1, in the final...
placed fifth at the 2007 U.S. Women's Nationals and fourth at the 2007
World Team Trials... second at the 2007 Olympia Grappling World Team
Trials qualifier. High School: A graduate of Milwaukie
High School (Milwaukie, Ore.)... lettered four times in track &
field, three times in cross country, twice in soccer and once each in
wrestling, basketball and dance... captain of the track & field
and cross country teams a senior... placed eighth at Fargo Nationals to
earn All-America honors... selected as the Most Inspirational athlete
for MHS in soccer (2000 and 2002) and track (2003)... track team MVP in
2000. Personal: Majoring in communications
& justice studies... parents are Milton Sr. and Christy... has
one brother: Milton Jr.... born June 5, 1985, in Anchorage, Alaska...
hobbies include music, dancing and reading the Bible... moved to
Arizona to help start a church... full name is Kelsey Rene Campbell. |
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Wrestling in arguably the toughest conference in the state, Kodiak came away with a third-place showing at the Northern Lights Conference Tournament, while advancing 13 wrestlers to the state tournament, Saturday, at Colony High School.
Kodiak tallied 267.5 points, trailing only Wasilla (282.5) and Colony (501). The Knights set a conference tournament record with 501 points. They advanced 25 wrestlers to the state meet.
Among the 13 Kodiak qualifiers, two were region champions: Jimmy Eggemeyer and Marlon Branson.
Eggemeyer, coming off his first loss in 68 matches, breezed by the competition to capture the 130-pound title. This is Eggemeyer’s second consecutive region title.
He wrestled only two matches. He beat Skyview’s Alex Janorschke 15-0 to get to the finals where he defeated Colony’s Sam Loggins 81-7.
Branson, last year’s 145-pound region champion, captured the 160-pound title after receiving a forfeit from teammate Gary Anthony in the finals.
Branson and Anthony both won a pair of matches to reach the finals.
“We had hoped to have both of them meet in the finals, but we didn’t want them to wrestle each other,” Kodiak coach Pat Costello said. “We hope they meet in the finals at state and then they can go at it. It was a no-win situation. I didn’t want either of them to get hurt.
“To me they are co-champions, because neither one lost.”
Chloe Ivanoff also reached the finals for the Bears. She won three matches, before falling to Palmer’s L.J. Lepanen 8-6 in overtime in the 112-pound title bout.
Ivanoff becomes the first female wrestler from Kodiak to reach a region final and becomes only the second female to reach a final in the region tournament.
“She raided the bar for Kodiak wrestling,” Costello said. “She was the better wrestler. She just needed to wrestle a cleaner match.”
In overtime tied 6-all, Ivanoff wasn’t able to clear her move and Lepanen took advantage and stole it away from Ivanoff for the ending takedown.
Dylan Anthony (103), Nick VanMatre (125) and Noah Fields (135) all won their third/fourth place match for Kodiak.
Jimmy Caswell (171) and Michael Odell (215) lost in their third/fourth place match. Caswell, wrestling for the first time in a month, lost to Skyview’s Patrick Sheridan 14-3, while Odell fell 3-1 to Wasilla’s Beebo Russell.
Four more Kodiak wrestlers earned a trip to the state tournament that begins Friday at Chugiak High School. David Rounsaville (140) finished fifth and David Castonguay (112) Michael Gilbert (140) and Jacob Long (HWT) finished sixth.
“The tournament was really a good tournament,” Costello said. “We had kids not even make it out of the region that would have been region champions in another region.
“We actually wrestled well,” he added. “We didn’t get a couple of key matches and a couple of kids did not qualify who we thought were odds on favorite to make it to state.”
Costello was voted Northern Lights Coach of the Year by his peers after the tournament.
Team — 1. Colony, 501; 2. Wasilla 282.5; 3. Kodiak 267.5; 4. Skyview 230; 5. Soldonta 182; 6. Palmer 144.5; 7. Kenai 123; 8. Homer 104.5.
Championship Finals
103 – Charles Coisman, Col, dec. Issac Wilson, Col, 3-2. 112 – L. J. Lepanen, Pal, dec. Chloe Ivanoff, Kod, 8-6 (OT). 119 – Kyle Wilson, Col, dec. Mike Chafin, Was, 5-3. 125 – Zach Beauchamp, Col, dec. Ben Daigle, Hom, 1-0. 130 – Jimmy Eggemeyer, Kod, maj. dec. Sam Loggins, Col, 18-7. 35 – Wes Mills, Sol, dec. Aaron Boss, Col, 9-6. 140 – Josh West, Col, dec. Robby Brymer, Hom, 9-2. 145 – Nick Stahler, Pal, dec. Levi Krueger, Col, 11-6. 152 – Tris Brymer, Hom, dec. David Crozier, Col, 8-3. 160 – Marlon Branson, Kod, win by default over Gary Anderson, Kod. 171 – Casey Katchinska, Was, dec. Tyler Milner, Col, 14-6. 189 – Eddie Buffington, Sky, dec. Angelo Bellotte, Col, 9-3. 215 – Eric Fan, Col, dec. Matthew Strieby, Sol, 11-8. HWT – Les Baker, Sol, dec. Jeff Pritchett, Col, 11-1.
Kodiak placers
103 — 3. Dylan Anthony. 112 — 2. Chloe Ivanoff; 6. David Castonguay. 125 — 3. Nick VanMatre. 130 — 1. Jimmy Eggemeyer. 135 — 3. Noah Fields. 140 — 5. David Rounsaville; 6. Michael Gilbert. 160 — 1. Marlon Branson; 2. Gary Anthony. 171 — 4. Jimmy Caswell. 215 — 4. Michael Odell. HWT – 6. Jacob Long.
"'You're joking, right?'" Sargent says with a smile of the usual line she hears. "I just tell them to show up at practice later and I'll show them."
"Really," comes their reply.
The diminutive Sargent, 100 pounds soaking wet, hardly looks like what most people consider a wrestler.
But she's gotten her share of lumps and bruises in the sport that mandates being physical.
"Conditioning is the hardest part," said Sargent. "I try not to think about the pain. You just have to go out there and be aggressive and act like you hate your opponent, even though you really don't."
Sargent started wrestling three years ago, with the blessing of her dad, who was once a high school wrestler, and at the urging of one of her former middle school teachers.
"People ask me why I do this," Sargent said. "When you win everyone cheers, and I love that."
Sargent got to hear those cheers with a comeback win in last Saturday's Warren County Dual Kick Off tournament.
Trailing 4-0 entering the third period, Sargent worked a power half-nelson into a pin, sending her dismayed Dominion High School opponent fleeing from the mat.
"That was kind of sad," Sargent said. "I didn't expect him to cry."
Sargent is just one of a growing number of high school girls wrestling on varsity teams across the United States. Until recently, many were just back-ups and practice squad sparring fodder.
But lately high school girl wrestlers have had their share of successes.
Last year Skyview High School sophomore Michaela Hutchison won a state title in Alaska - the first girl to do so.
"Sarah knows what she's doing out there," said Skyline coach Matt Keel. "If she can stay at 103 pounds in the future, she will be tough."
The sight of a girl wrestler on the mat now is not so much of a novelty, although Sargent will be the only girl wrestler in the Northwestern District this season.
Skyline senior Jacob Huffstickler said Sargent is just like any another teammate.
"There is not really any difference," Huffstickler said. "She works as hard as anyone and she does what she can do to win. I was really happy for her when she got that win."
Sophomore Matt Huffstickler agreed with his older brother about Sargent.
"She works hard just like everyone else," he
said. "When she got that pin
it was exciting. It gave everyone on our team more confidence."
Still, there
are high school teams that will not send a boy wrestler to the mat if they are
matched up against a girl.
"If that happens to me, I'll be happy because the team will get six points," Sargent said. "But it would also be disappointing because he won't go out there and just try it."
Sargent said she expects to wrestle all four years at Skyline and hopes to eventually coach wrestling one day to children trying to learn the sport.
Until then, she happy to be part of the Hawks inaugural wrestling team - one girl trying to fit in with 13 guys on the mat
"I know all of them," Sargent said. "They're all pretty cool and
funny."
By MATT TUNSETH/Frontiersman
Published on Saturday,
December 8, 2007 1:48 AM AKST
Top 10 notebook
5. Chapin finished first at the Socorro girls wrestling tournament, with BlueCeleste Montoya (102 pounds), Crystal Romero (185) and Melissa Valdez (215) winning their weight classes.
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| Lacey Novinska |
MARQUETTE, Mich. – Oklahoma City University's
Lacey Novinska and Melissa Simmons pinned
their opponents, but the Stars dropped two duals to the U.S. Olympic Educational
Center 16-12 and 16-13.
Novinska, a junior from Fennimore, Wis., defeated
Katie Crouch by fall. She won the first period of her
72-kilogram match 2-0, then pinned Crouch in 1:23 of the second period. Novinska
is the No. 1 collegiate wrestler at 72 kilos.
Simmons, a sophomore from
Ridgefield, Wash., also pinned Crouch in 1:18 in the first period. Simmons is
ranked second in the nation at 72.
OCU went to 3-3 in duals.
Other
victories for OCU were notched by Ashley Sword at 67,
Samantha Phillips at 59 and Briana Conway at
67.
Sword knocked off Lindsey Brooks 3-1, 3-1. Sword, a
junior from West Palm Beach, Fla., formerly wrestled at the U.S. Olympic
Educational Center located at Northern Michigan. She is ranked second in the
nation.
Phillips beat Amber Miracle 0-1, 4-0, 2-0 in the
second dual.
Conway defeated Brooks 6-0, 6-4 also in the second dual. Conway
is rated fifth at 67.
Nicole Woody and Lene Wood
lost in bouts featuring highly-ranked wrestlers. Alyssa
Lampe, the top-ranked individual at 48, defeated Woody 6-0, 5-0. Woody
is ranked fourth.
Lampe also beat Wood 6-0, 3-1. Wood wrestled up a weight as
she is the second-ranked wrestler at 44 kilos.
The Stars also challenged the
third-ranked wrestler at 59, Shyla Iokia. Iokia defeated
Phillips 2-0, 1-1.
Whitney Conder, ranked fourth at 55, defeated the
Stars' Emma Mercer 7-0, 6-0.
The Stars wrestle in the NWCA
Cliff Keen National Duals on Jan. 12 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
USOEC 16, OCU 12
48kg Alyssa Lampe (USOEC)
defeated Nicole Woody (OCU) - (6, 0) (5,0)
51kg Sadie
Kandea (USOEC) defeated Erica Torres (OCU) - (5, 4) (4, 4)
55kg
Beth Johnson (USOEC) defeated Ashley Hudson (OCU) - (1, 1) (7,
2)
59kg Shyla Iokia (USOEC) defeated Samantha Phillips (OCU)
- (2, 0) (1, 1)
63kg Schuyler Brown (USOEC) defeated Briana
Conway (OCU) - (3, 0) (6, 3)
67 kg Ashley Sword (OCU)
defeated Lindsey Brooks (USOEC) – (3, 1) (3, 1)
72kg Lacey
Novinska (OCU) defeated Katie Crouch (USOEC) - (2, 0) (pin
1:23)
USOEC 16, OCU 13
48kg
Alyssa Lampe (USOEC) defeated Lene Wood (OCU) (6, 0) (3,
1)
51kg Sadie Kaneda (USOEC) defeated Jennifer Peabody (OCU)
(7, 0) (4, 2)
55kg Whitney Conder (USOEC) defeated Emma
Mercer (OCU) (7, 0) (6, 0)
59kg Samantha Phillips (OCU)
defeated Amber Miracle (USOEC) (0, 1) (4, 0) (2, 0)
63kg
Schuyler Brown (USOEC) defeated Sheila McCabe (OCU) (6, 0) (6,
0)
67kg Briana Conway (OCU) defeated Lindsey Brooks (USOEC)
(6, 0) (6, 4)
72kg Melissa Simmons (OCU) defeated Katie
Crouch (USOEC) pin: 1:18
