February 2009

Sparta's Matt Tourdot lost a close 6-5 match to Jackson Hein of Wausau West.  With the victory, Hein notched his 50th victory of the year, but it didn't come easy.  Tourdot pushed Hein to the final second, but came up just short of advancing to his first ever state title appearance.

Tourdot will take his 40-3 record into the Consolation semifinals against Nick Broadway (42-4) of Hartford Union.  Tourdot wrestled Broadway earlier this year in the finals of the West Allis Invite losing 4-2.  Expect this match to be another close one.  Broadway lost the opening match of the tournament, but came back to win two matches by major decisions to setup his match with Tourdot.

The winner of the Tourdot-Broadway match will advance to the third place bout.  The loser will wrestle for fifth.  Check back here tomorrow for the latest results or follow along at Trackwrestling as the action happens.  The consolation semis start at 11am tomorrrow while the third and fifth place matches will happen later tomorrow afternoon.  Tourdot is guaranteed at least sixth place.

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10:53am  –  Sparta's Derek McDonald saw his 2009 State Tournament run come to an end Thursday morning at the hands of Dominic Morelli of Racine Park.  Morelli pinned McDonald in 2:43.  McDonald finishes the season with a 30-13 record and capped off a great wrestling career for the Spartans.

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Sparta's Matt Tourdot reached the 40-win plateau Thursday evening and a place in the 189-pound semifinals.  Tourdot opened up action by defeating Jake Dostalek of Waterford 6-2 before taking down Oregon's Kevin Sommers 6-3–a guy he defeated 16-4 earlier this year at the Reedsburg Dual Invitational.  Now Tourdot faces the reigning runner-up at 189 from a year ago in Wausau West's Jackson Hein who will be looking for his 50th win of the year against Tourdot.  Hein and Tourdot hit the mat during the round that starts at 7:00pm tonight. 

At 119 pounds, Derek McDonald ran into some very stiff competition in Shane McQuade from Appleton West.  McQuade lived up to his 45-1 record by tech falling McDonald 17-2.  However, McQuade won his second match in overtime ensuring McDonald a wrestleback against Dominic Morelli (39-5) out of Racine Park.  Morelli lost in overtime to McQuade 11-9.  McDonald wrestles in the round starting at 10am this morning. 

Check back here later today for results on both McDonald and Tourdot's matches.

Before you go, check out this video taken by Mike Montgomery of Tourdot's quarterfinal match against Kevin Sommers.

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Derek McDonald and Matt Tourdot open up their 2009 WIAA State Tournament run today at the Kohl Center in Madison, WI.  Action for the opening round starts at 3 p.m.

McDonald will face a tough match today when he wrestles Appleton
West's Shane McQuade who comes into the tournament with a 43-1 record.  Tourdot will wrestle
Jake Dostalek of Waterford who comes in with a 31-5 record.  Tourdot is
on the same side of the bracket as top-ranked Jackson Heing (47-3) of
Wausau West.

Check back here later for updates on how the two did.  I'm not sure of my work schedule so if I can't update it as the match concludes, you can check out results at Trackwrestling.

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Below are a few interviews by Mike Montgomery with 2009 state qualifiers Derek McDonald and Matt Tourdot along with coaches Jake Larsen and Bill Tourdot.  Find out their thoughts on the upcoming state tournament and more below…

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Hopefully we will have a few more interviews up after the state tournament as well as some video of the action at state.  Keep checking back here for more information!

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