One more regular season meet on Longhorn wrestling schedule

    This Friday’s Medicine Valley Invitational in Curtis marks the final regular season meet on Chase County’s wrestling schedule.
    Then, the Longhorns will head to subdistricts for a new district qualifying tournament on Saturday, Feb. 6, in Mitchell.
    “Subdistricts is new this year due to COVID,” said Coach Matt Vlasin.
    “It’s basically splitting the district in two eight-man tournaments” with the other subdistrict scheduled for Amherst.
    The top four finishers at subdistricts will advance to an eight-man bracket at C-4 districts in Valentine a week later on Feb. 13.
    Vlasin said the new format could allow some wrestlers to advance further (in what would have been a 16-man district bracket), but it also means some subdistricts will be “stacked.”
    Teams besides Chase County in the Subdistrict C4-A are Arcadia/Loup City, Gordon-Rushville, Hershey, Mitchell, O’Neil, Ravenna and Valentine.
    This Friday’s tournament at Med. Valley has a 9 a.m. MT start. Meet officials are allowing one spectator per wrestler.         Other teams expected are Brady, Cross County, Dundy County-Stratton, Garden County, Mullen, North Platte JV, Paxton, Sandhills Valley, Southern Valley, Southwest, Sutherland and Wauneta-Palisade.    
Action last week
    Last week, Chase County took wrestlers to Thursday’s Hitchcock County quadrangular and Friday’s new Hemingford Bobcat Invitational.
    On Thursday, the Longhorns traveled to Trenton for the Hitchcock County quad which also included Sutherland and Cambridge.
    While all three of their opponents had some solid wrestlers, Vlasin said it wasn’t Chase County’s best showing.
    In head-to-head matches, the Longhorns managed just three wins in the quad. There were a lot of forfeits in all matches.
    While he lost his three matches, Tyler O’Neil showed improvement, Vlasin said.
    Jaret Peterson collected two of Chase County’s three wins, added to his forfeit win in the Sutherland dual. He decisioned Cambridge’s Julien Brindle, who’s state- ranked in Class D.

To read more go to: https://etypeservices.com/Imperial%20RepublicanID359/