BEA Defeats Tyrone on Six Pins

By Quinn Cowher, Staff Writer|January 28, 2022

Bald Eagle Area overwhelmed Tyrone on Tuesday night with an action-packed match ultimately ending with a score of 43-23. 

The match was special for Tyrone head coach Quentin Wright as he was coaching against the program that he won two state titles for. Wright also was coaching against his former junior high coach Ron Guenot.

 “It wasn’t too weird,” Wright said. “It was kind of fun just because I have a lot of good memories at Bald Eagle. A lot of their coaches were coaching when I was at Bald Eagle Area. So it’s fun that they can get a win on me now.” 

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It was kind of fun just because I have a lot of good memories at Bald Eagle. A lot of their coaches were coaching when I was at Bald Eagle Area. So it’s fun that they can get a win on me now

— Coach Quentin Wright

Wrestling started at 106 with Korry Walls who was able to get a pin for Tyrone in 1:15.

 At 112 Freshman Logan Rumberger was defeated by Bea’s Lucas Fye who won by a 10-1 major decision. 

BEA then secured two pins adding 12 points giving them the lead. Tyrone then sent out their champion Ashton Sipes (132)  who showed off his wrestling prowess by securing a 17-2 technical fall over Bea’s Kevin Taylor.

 Tyrone’s Lukas Walk (138) Wrestled Bea’s Jeffre Pifer who secured a 4-3 decision over Walk.

Tyrone responded by sending out the mighty Reese Wood (145) who had a 3-0 win over Bea’s Taten Yoder pushing the score to 19-14 with Tyrone within 5 points of tying the Duel Meet.

A thrilling Match at 160 Between Tyrone’s Andrew Weaver and Bea’s Cameron Dubbs in which Weaver broke a 3-3 tie to get a 10-3 decision over Dubbs. 

After the thrilling bout at 160 came 3 defeats for the Eagles. The final bout of the night came at 285 with Tyrone’s Braden Ewing getting a pin in 1:33 bringing the Duel meet to an end. 

The loss makes the Eagles record 8-5 and Bald Eagles record 10-2. Both teams will compete in the Ultimate Warrior Tournament in West Branch this weekend.      

BOX SCORE

106–Walls, T, pinned Guenot, 1:15

113–Fye, BEA, maj. dec. Rumberger, 10-1

120–Bainey, BEA, pinned Fleck, :45

126–Gardner, BEA, pinned E. Walk, :55

132–Sipes, T, tech. fall Taylor, 17-2, 4:50

138–Pifer, BEA, dec. L. Walk, 4-3

145–Wood, T, dec. Yoder, 3-0

152–Reese, BEA, pinned Klein, 2:27

160–Weaver, T, dec. Dubbs, 10-3

172–Close, BEA, pinned Lash, 3:31

189–Foltz, BEA, pinned Barr, 1:10

215–Knepp, BEA, pinned Wise, 1:26

285–Ewing, T, pinned Clark, 1:33.

Records: Bald Eagle Area (10-2; Tyrone (8-5)