Monticello Open Results

Sorry to say that there is no video from this week's tournament. I bought a new camcorder but Kim stayed home to get some stuff done. Thanks to Grammy for driving over to see matches.

Egan won all three of his matches to win first place. He pinned his first opponent in less than a minute. His second match was sloppy and he had to go into overtime to win. I was not very happy with that match, happy with the win; not happy how he went about getting it. His third match was against a kid from Westville. Egan wrestled that kid last week in Mattoon so we pretty much knew it would be a win. Egan wrestled hard and beat the kid 14-0. He had him down on the mat but he just couldn't get the kid pinned. Egan will definitely be wrestling in the 5/6 group and the 7/8 group in two weeks at Mt. Zion.

Bowen had a very rough day. He lost all three of his matches. Two were very close. His first match was against a kid from Mattoon. With about 20 seconds left in the match, Bowen was up 8-7. He let the kid get a take down, so now he is down 9-8. Bowen was able to get the escape just as time expired, so regulation time ended with the match a tie 9-9. So we head into overtime and the kid from Mattoon got the take down and was able to walk away with the win 11-9. His second match was against a Lincoln opponent. He was down 4-3 with 16 seconds left. The Lincoln kid shot in on him and Bowen was able to sprawl and block it but he wasn't able to spin around behind the kid and the two points for the takedown. Bowen let him up and went to tap him in the head but missed the forehead and hit the kid right in the face. The ref stopped the match and gave the Lincoln kid a point since Bowen did an illegal move. So with six seconds left Bowen was down 5-3. The Lincoln kid just stayed away from Bowen and the match was over. Bowen's third match was against a kid from Monticello. This kid was really good and Bowen got pinned in the first period. Out of Bowen's 8 losses this year, this was the first one by being pinned.

So now Egan is 13-2 and Bowen is 5-8. We have next weekend off. So it will be nice not having to get up early on Sunday morning. That will mean there will probably not be any updates until Sunday, January 25th after the Mt. Zion Open.