Riding the wave of an impressive second place finish at
last week's prestigious Wasatch Duals in Heber City, the
improving Spanish Fork Dons completely took apart the
hapless Timpanogos Silver Wolves 65 -12 on the Dons home
mat on Thursday, Dec 13. The Dons never broke a sweat in
this laugher as they sliced and diced the Silver Wolves
winning twelve of the fourteen matches on the night.
One of the non-victories was a forfeit at 112 pounds
and the other was a tough third round loss by the Dons
Kade Christensen who was wrestling in his first match of
the year.
Picking up pins for the confident Dons were Caleb
Ashworth, Jacob Bracken, Kyle Weight, Eric Kitchen and
Brock Wilson. Adding to the Timpanogos pain were Traven
Gardner and Phil Sorenson who recorded Technical Fall
pastings.
Jacob Bracken got the scoring started for Spanish
Fork as he met no resistance at 135 pounds by pinning
Zach Peck in only 45 seconds of the first round.
Brett Grover picked up a major decision over Timp's
Jacob Smith at 145 by the score of 12 to 2 running the
team score to 22 to 0 for the Dons. Coach Dave Clark was
excited to have the Sorenson brothers back on the mat
for his charges as Phil dusted off his togs and joined
brother Dave to give the Dons much needed depth as they
head into Region IV wars. Inactive all season long, Phil
looked in mid season form as he took charge of his 160
pound match from the opening whistle and shutout Tanner
Prestwich 15-0 and record a dominating technical fall
win.
The Dons co-captain, Kyle Weight, put on a clinic at
171 pounds recording five takedowns before effortlessly
pinning Matt Kresge early in the second round.
The back third of the Dons powerful upper weight trio
of Eric Kitchen and Brock Wilson refused to take a back
seat to Weight by both turning in impressive first round
pins at 189 and 285 respectively. The hulkish Wilson
nailed the quickest pin of the night taking only 41
seconds to overpower Timp's Garret Coleman.
Closing out the scoring for the Dons were Traven
Gardner who was finally able to drop down to 103, Matt
Anderson at 119 pounds and sophomore phenom Caleb
Ashworth at 125 pounds. The scrappy Gardner was
unbelievable as he embarrassed the Silver Wolves Tyler
Reese with a first round technical fall thrashing 16 to
1.
Smooth Matt Anderson pitched a 7 to 0 shutout in his
119 pound match against Josh Harmon. Caleb Ashworth
ended the pain for Timpanogos by blasting Conner Sugrue
with a second round pin after leading 14-2.
Thursday's workout was a bit of a disappointment as
surely Coach Clark had hoped the boys from Highland
would have offered a bit more resistance for his kids
who were looking for a solid tune-up prior to the
weekend Viewmont Tournament.
"Timpanogos is down this year and didn't show us a
lot tonight" Clark offered. "On the bright side, we got
some kids back on the mat tonight that should give us
some quality depth as we head into region and state."
The Dons return from Viewmont to entertain early
region favorite Lone Peak on Wednesday night before
taking time off for the Christmas holiday.