Young CCS wrestling team opens with three back-to-back meets

    After adding the Hi-Line Invitational last year, Chase County’s wrestlers now open their season with three back-to-back meets.
    While Coach Matt Vlasin said it’s a lot for the first week of competition, he was impressed with the performance of his young team last week.
    The Longhorns went 1-1 at the Garden County duals, placed fourth at Hi-Line, then finished the week with 6th place at the Broken Bow Tournament.
    “In all three tournaments we wrestled tough,” Vlasin said.
    Chase County wrestlers came home with six medals from Hi-Line and another five from Broken Bow.
    Some indicators came out after last week’s competition. Vlasin said they definitely need to work on conditioning, and “clean up a lot of little things.”
    He felt the competition level at both Hi-Line and Broken Bow wasn’t up to previous years, but each featured several tough weight classes.
    At Broken Bow, two top wrestling teams—Ord and Malcolm—didn’t attend.
    However, host Broken Bow, who dominated their home tournament, has a good shot at winning Class B this season, Vlasin said. They have full varsity and JV teams; its JV squad took fourth place at Saturday’s tournament.
    Chase County captured five medals at Broken Bow: second by Dawson Mollendor, and fourths from Cayden White, Kenyan Biesecker, Jaret Peterson and Aurora Griebel.
    Six Hi-Line medals were won: seconds from Peterson, Brice Vitosh and White; and fourths from Mollendor, Biesecker and Arturo Miscles. Biesecker advanced to the consolation finals, but had to withdraw because he’d reached his five-match limit for the day.
    At Garden County, Peterson and White went 2-0 in head-to-head matches.
    There were no separate female divisions at either tournament last week, which was an unknown prior to the competition. Chase County’s two female wrestlers were placed in brackets with the boys as was the practice last year.
So. Valley this week; home double dual on Tuesday
    On Friday, Chase County will be at the So. Valley Invitational which has a 9 a.m. MT start.
    On Tuesday, Chase County will host a double dual starting at 4 p.m. Kimball and Leyton were originally scheduled, but Kimball will not attend due to COVID quarantines.
    AD Troy Hauxwell was attempting to work out details so Wauneta-Palisade can replace Kimball. It will be cancelled if WP can’t attend. Only family members of the wrestlers will be allowed into Tuesday’s double dual if it’s held.

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