Matt Tourdot

March 27, 2010

Senior Nationals Day Two

5:40pm — Matt defeats Colling 3-1 in a tiebreaker!!! Colling is a 4X New York State Champion, National Champion, and University of Oklahoma recruit. Matt has earned All-American status and will wrestle again tomorrow, and could wrestle three more times as he goes for 3rd place. 5:30pm — Matt Tourdot began his consolation comeback defeating [...]

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March 26, 2010

Tourdot at Senior Nationals

5:38 pm —  Tourdot won his first match of the day by fall in 5:03 over Florida’s Filmore McMillan.  That sets up a showdown between the #15 ranked Matt Tourdot and the #14 ranked Nicholas McDiarmid after McDiarmid won his first match by fall in 1:04.  The winner advances to the quarterfinals. 2:30 pm — [...]

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March 22, 2010

Season-ending banquet tomorrow night, Tourdot heads to Senior Nationals

Sparta will celebrate their 2009-10 season with a banquet Tuesday evening at Club 16.  A social hour will begin at 6pm while dinner will be at 630pm.  Come celebrate Sparta’s MVC championship, four state qualifiers, one state champion and a 17-1 season with friends and fans.  Cost is $8 a plate. A few days after [...]

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March 10, 2010

Another Tourdot statistic and get your own copy of this year’s Sparta-Tomah dual

I was looking over some of the stats from this season when it dawned on me–Matt Tourdot didn’t get scored on that much so I went back and looked some more and called my dad, Mike Montgomery, to confirm some statistics and he emailed back confirming what I already thought, which will probably surprise you. [...]

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March 3, 2010

State Wrestling Photos

I posted an entry on my photo blog at http://www.drockphoto.com with my favorite images from this year’s state tournament.  You can check that out by clicking here… To see the full extent of what I photographed all three days at the Kohl Center, check out the links below… State Wrestling Day One State Wrestling Day [...]

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March 2, 2010

A season for the record books, Tourdot finals photo gallery

This was a season to remember for Sparta and for Matt Tourdot.  On a team and individual level, it was one of the best Spartan teams to ever step onto the mat.  Eight Spartans finished with more than 30 wins while Bryce Nowaczyk finished with 29 and Brandon Rickert (27) and Toby Mosley (24) would [...]

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February 27, 2010

50-0!! Tourdot wins state championship

Matt Tourdot became Sparta’s first state champion since Troy Lietzau in 1996 and the first Spartan ever to reach 50 wins in a season after he defeated Lodi’s Cody Endres 7-0 to win the 215-pound division two state championship.  More to come tomorrow, but here are a few photos from tonight’s finals match.  Congrats Matt [...]

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February 27, 2010

Tourdot in finals, Stanek bows out

Matt Tourdot can do what no other Spartan has ever done by doing something he has already done this year.  Tourdot will look to become the first Spartan state champion since Troy Lietzau in 1996 and the first Spartan ever to win 50 matches in a year.  To do so, he will have to defeat [...]

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February 25, 2010

Stanek victorious, Wiedl & Rickert fall

Jordan Stanek controlled Chetek/Prairie Farm’s Shaun Robotka (35-10) from the beginning of the match winning 7-2 to setup a showdown with Dylan Iczkowski (40-1) of Mosinee.  Stanek will wrestle tomorrow afternoon in the D2 state quarterfinals. At 112 pounds, Adam Wiedl couldn’t put up any points against Berlin’s Joe Selsing and at 119 pounds, Brandon [...]

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February 24, 2010

State Scouting Report

Over the past couple days, my dad and I have looked over some data about Sparta’s first round opponents at the state tournament and compiled that information below.  Not much can be said beyond the first and second matches for these guys, but what we can say with certainty is below.  Here goes… ========== 112 [...]

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February 24, 2010

Wiedl, Rickert enter rankings

After Adam Wiedl’s impressive performance at sectionals, he now finds himself ranked 5th in division two at 112 pounds according to Wisconsin Wrestling Online. His victories included a 9-2 victory over Austyn Alt (39-8) of River Valley and a 12-10 win over Daniel Banh of Clinton (40-2). Banh was ranked 2nd coming into the weekend [...]

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