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5:14 pm —  Things are starting to take shape in Harrisonville for the Spartans.  A lot of wrestling has gone on in the past few hours.  Dylan Winchel advanced to the consolation finals with a 9-5 victory while Tristan Zurfluh lost in the consolation semifinals by a score of 5-0.

At 119, Bryce Nowaczyk won his consolation semifinal by pin in 2:24 while Derek VonRuden lost his first match of the tournament in the semfinals and is guaranteed at least 4th place.  At 130 pounds, Derek VonRuden also lost in the seminfals after being caught right off the bat and stuck in 16 seconds.

At 135 pounds, Paul VanTassel dropped his consolation semifinal match 7-3 while at 140, Michael Murnane fell in the semifinals 9-1.  A weight class higher at 145 pounds, Toby Mosley was shutout against 17-0 Michael Rodgers of St. Clair.  At 152 pounds, Morgan Leis fell to another undefeated wrestler by a score of 11-3.  At 160 pounds, Alex Hemmersbach’s day is done after he won his 11th place bout by forfeit.

At 171 pounds, Xavier Lopez rebounded from three consecutive losses to win his consolation semifinal 8-5.  One weight class higher, Clinton Labeause finished his day taking 15th place with a victory by forfeit.  At 215 pounds, Tom Tourdot lost his first match of the tournament dropping a 7-2 decision to the 17-0 Haylon Jacobs of Mexico.  Finally, at 285 pounds, Chris Beeler won his consolation quarterfinal by pin in 1:28.

Teamwise, the Spartans are sitting in 2nd place with 715 points, 106 points back of Deer Creek who now have 821 points.  In third place and only 16 points back of the Spartans is St. Charles West and in 4th place, 54 points back of the Spartans, is Kirksville.  Sparta has a great chance to improve upon last year’s third place showing and they might do it without an individual champion.

This will be the last update before the final update covering how each wrestler did.  Check back here in a few hours to get each wrestler’s record on the weekend, Sparta’s team score and how each Spartan did in every single match of the tournament.

3:00 pm —  Through six rounds, the Spartans continue to put up impressive numbers on a team and individual basis.  On the team side of things, Sparta sits in second place with 634 points while Deer Creek continues to lead the tournament with 699 points.  In third place, 10 points back of the Spartans, is St. Charles West.

Individually, the Spartans continue to see success.  In the quarterfinals, Dylan Winchel and Tristan Zurfluh were pinned in the first period of their matches.  At 119, Bryce Nowaczyk won his consolation quarterfinal by decision.

Derek VonRuden continued his undefeated tournament ways by improving to 4-0 over two days with a major decision victory while Nick Winchel did the same with a victory by decision in his quarterfinal match.  At 135 pounds, Paul VanTassel dropped a match by decision and at 152 pounds, Morgan Leis defeated Dakota Bush of St. Clair, who came into his match against Leis with a record of 16-0.

At 160 pounds in the consolation quarterfinal, Alex Hemmersbach picked up a 7-1 victory while his practice partner, Xavier Lopez fell in the second period by pin to fall to 3-3 over two days.  At 189 pounds, Clinton LaBeause lost his consolation quarterfinal match by decision and at 285, Chris Beeler fell to his opponent by pin in the third period.

Tom Tourdot has yet to wrestle this round.

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