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Wrestling

2 Eagles place as champions at UNK

Janelle Kesterson

The CSC Eagle Wrestlers traveled to Kearney Nov. 22 to compete in the University of Nebraska-Kearney Holiday Inn Open Tournament.

Eight Eagles place in the tournament, including two champions.

Jacob Anderson, sophomore of Central City, 149-pounds, and Cooper Cogdill, freshman of Chadron, 197-pounds, each earned first place, winning five of five matches.

“I feel like I really opened up at UNK,” Anderson said. “In the tournaments before, I was held back and didn’t wrestle how I usually do. At UNK, I wrestled smart and pushed the pace, and that worked good for me.”

Other place winners included Taylor Summers, sophomore of Plymouth, 133-pounds, finished second place; Terrance McKinney, sophomore of Spokane, Washington, 149-pounds, in third place; Brock Thumm, freshman of Watervliet, Michigan, 141-pounds, and Caleb Copeland, sophomore of Bennett, Colorado, 174-pounds, finished fifth; and at 197-pounds, amateur Zach Thompson, freshman of Powell, Wyoming, and elite Devon Fors, senior of Roseburg, Oregon, finishing in sixth place.

All of the Eagle placeholders competed in the Amateur division except Fors, who competed in the Elite, or older, division.

Summers went 4-1, falling to P.T. Garcia of the University of Wyoming in the finals. McKinney went 6-1 and Thumm and Copeland each went 4-2 during the tournament.

“I didn’t finish the tournament the way I wanted, but overall I felt pretty good about the way I wrestled,” Summers said. “I was a lot more offensive and pushed the pace more so than the first couple tournaments, which is a step forward.”

This weekend, the CSC wrestlers will travel to Great Falls, Montana, to compete in the Argo Duals Friday and the University of Great Falls Open Tournament Saturday. Thirteen competitors will be making the trip.

“We will see some of the best teams in the country with NAIA and NCAA Division II programs,” Hunter said. “We will see where we are at with a young squad making the trip.”

“My mind set for the upcoming duals is just to go out there and work the moves that I’m best at,” Anderson said. “I can’t get caught up in what the other guy is trying to do, I just need to do what works best for me.”