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January 14, 2020
The Yukon High School wrestling team finished fifth over the weekend at the Larry Wilkey Invitational Tournament in Jenks.
The Millers scored 140.5 points with a first-place, second-place and two third-place finishers among the 16 wrestlers participating in the event.
Corbin Gordon, wres-tling at 220, was Yukon’s top finisher. Gordon went 5-0 in the tournament with three wins by fall and two decisions.
Gordon defeated Isaac McNack of Henryetta by fall in his opening round. He earned the pin at 1:39.
That was followed by a pin at 4:24 against Frank Morales of Moore.
In the quarterfinals, Gordon earned a pin over Tristen Dartez of Southmoore at 3:24.
In the semifinals, Gordon won 4-2 over Ryan Cochran of Claremore.
In the finals, Gordon won by decision over Caden Felts of Pryor, 2-1.
Cooper Mahaffey (21-3) finished second, bow-ing in the finals to Josey Jernegan, with an 11-8 decision.
Mahaffey received a bye in the opening round and then earned wins by fall, major deci-sion and technical fall.
He defeated Carsen Reich of Jenks by fall at 2:51, followed by a major decision against Troy Bullman of Owasso, 17-4.
In the semifinals, he defeated Keamie Johnson of Claremore by technical fall.
Finishing in third-place at 195 was Conner Columbus, who won the consolation bracket.
Columbus, 20-4, opened with a 4-3 tie-break win over Jacob
Surber of Bishop Kelley.
He also defeated Gabriel Taylor of Jenks by fall at 1:37.
Columbus lost in the third round to Brayden Seago of Skiatook by decision, 2-0. Seago was 13-1 on the season.
In the consolation bracket, Columbus defeated Carson Denwalt of South-moore by major deci-sion, 12-1; Tristan Ashford of Moore by 3-2 decision and Ethan Felts of Jenks by 4-0 decision.
Also finishing third was Lane Parks, 17-4, at 285.
Parks defeated London Rowlan of Mannford by fall in 3:00 to win the bracket.
Before that, he had received a bye, defeated Fernando Sotomayor Diaz of Jenks in the second round by fall at 1:16; Tyler Rich of Owasso by fall at 2:00, lost to Caleb Phillips of Coweta by fall at 0:16,
and then won by fall against John Roberts of Jenks at 5:19.
Other placers for Yukon included Jonah Hanscom at 120, who finished fifth and Nate Haun, who finished sixth at 182.
Yukon coach Joe Schneider said he was happy with how the team performed.
“I thought we had
some ups and downs. I am proud of the guys who placed and medaled,” he said.
Schneider also was happy that several of the wrestlers were able to snare bonus team points by winning by fall.
“Overall, I’m happy with the guys who medaled,” he said. “We had three seniors place
and three sophomores.”With the conference
tournament coming up this weekend at Southmoore, Schneider said he is still tweaking the lineup.
And the conference tournament also allows Schneider to bring more of his team along.
“We’ve still got some work to do,” he said.
Grapplers claim fifth at Jenks event
A Yukon wrestler competes during Saturday's tournament in Jenks. Yukon finished fifth overall. Photo / Hayden Tucker, The Jenks Tribune
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Millers rebound to win in Weatherford tournament
It was not the situation coach Kevin Ritter wanted to see. However, when his No. 14 ranked Yukon boys lost a big lead and found themselves trailing at halftime Saturday, he decided to see what his team was made of.
The Millers not only came back to win the game, but took home the first place in the Weatherford Tournament.
“It was good to be in a different situation instead of just leading from the start. It’s good for our guys to battle back,” Ritter said. “We found a way.”
The tourney started on a high note for Yukon (8-2). They rolled over the Amarillo Flames 79-51. That pushed them into a semifinal matchup with No. 11 Tuttle (4A).
Led by Justus Reister, the Millers knocked off the Tigers 76-63.
The senior forward posted 34 points and 10 rebounds in the victo-ry. Reister shot 9 of 12 from the field and was 13 of 14 from the free-throw line in 30 minutes of action.
“We haven’t had anyone do any-thing like that in a long time around here,” Ritter said. “Cameron Martin was the last guy to score 34 points here since I’ve been here.”
Reister gave the credit to his team-mates for his career night.
“I was knocking down a lot of free throws. That was a part of it,” Reister said. “My team was setting me up to score a lot. They were giv-ing me good passes, good assists. I was getting rebounds, putting them back up.”
Brayden Dutton added 14 points for the Millers.
Yukon met up with No. 19 Guthrie (5A) in the finals Saturday night.
The Millers were in control at the start, but then the second quarter came, and everything fell apart. They were held to four points and no assists while committing six turn-overs.
At one point in the third, the Millers were down 13 points. But Ritter said that is when his team began to figure things out.
Yukon went on to win 51-45.“I said we’re halfway through the
season. Let’s just go play some man and see if we can dig ourselves out of a hole,” Ritter said. “We haven’t been in that type of situation a
whole lot lately. It was good to see them battle back.”
The Millers forced Guthrie into 17 turnovers and won the rebound bat-tle 33-23.
Carson Lambakis and Colby Baker each scored 14 points to lead the Yukon charge. Lambakis also led the team in assists with six. Dutton chipped in with 9 points and three assists. Foul trouble held Reister to eight points in 18 minutes of work.
After taking on No. 18 Deer Creek on Tuesday, the Millers do not have another game until Jan. 21 when they travel to Stillwater.
By MICHAEL KINNEYFor The Yukon Review
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The Yukon girls’ bas-ketball team traveled south over the weekend to compete in the Anadarko Midfirst Classic. After three days of competition, they came away with a second-place finish.
“Thursday and Friday, I thought our fight and togetherness was outstanding,” Yukon coach Roy Wyckoff said. “I thought we had two good wins over two solid teams. I was real-ly pleased with that.
“Anadarko, the team we played in the finals, is really, really good. We weren’t pleased with how we played or competed. They beat us pretty bad. But overall, to take the weekend in total, I was pleased.”
The Millerettes start-ed off the tourney Thursday by facing No. 18 Guyman (5A). They were able to hold on for a 49-44 victory.
In the semifinals Friday, Yukon took on No. 9 El Reno (5A). They slowed down El Reno and earned a 50-39 win.
While Sydney Brown led all scorers with 26 points, Wyckoff gave credit to the team’s overall defense.
“Friday, I was most pleased with defensive-ly and shutting down Ashlynn Evans, who is El Reno’s leading scor-er,” Wyckoff said. “We did a really good job. We held her to six points. And it was real-
ly a team effort. We switched different girls on her, but we defended her as a whole team.”
That set up a match-up with No. 1 Anadarko (4A) in the champion-ship game Saturday evening. The Miller-ettes fell 70-21.
“I do think we were worn down,” Wyckoff said. “We are asking our girls to play lots of minutes with a high level of effort with the way we try to pressure the whole game and not sub you. We were a little banged up, a little sore, little tired. Not an excuse.”
According to Wyckoff, Yukon began the night playing hard,
but wasn’t making shots. That caught up to them as the game wore on.
“We look up at the scoreboard, and we’re getting beat pretty handily,” Wyckoff said. “I think our effort started to fall off mid-way through the sec-ond quarter. Partially due to mental and physical fatigue. Partially due to getting discouraged.”
Yukon (6-6) got back to work on Tuesday when they faced No. 12 Deer Creek (9-2). They will travel to Southmoore on Friday to take on the Lady SaberCats (0-8).
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Millerettes earn second in Anadarko Midfirst Classic
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