{"id":1318050,"date":"2020-02-03T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/bears-smith-1st-demons-wilson-2nd-in-weekend-wrestling-action\/"},"modified":"2020-02-03T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T03:44:00","slug":"bears-smith-1st-demons-wilson-2nd-in-weekend-wrestling-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/bears-smith-1st-demons-wilson-2nd-in-weekend-wrestling-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears\u2019 Smith 1st, Demons\u2019 Wilson 2nd in weekend wrestling action"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rifle High School\u2019s wrestling team had several top finishers at the Front Range Valley Classic tournament on Saturday, including a championship showing by the Bears\u2019 Cauy Smith in the 126-pound classification.<\/p>\n

Smith improved to 20-4 on the season, earning byes to the quarterfinal round of the tournament where he won by fall over Wyatt Gardner of Mountain Valley to advance to the first-place match. There, he won a 9-7 decision over Demetrio Achuleta of Piedra Vista High to claim the title.<\/p>\n

As a team, the Bears finished fifth in the 25-team field with 106 points.<\/p>\n

Other top Rifle wrestlers included: 138 pounds \u2014 Bryce Rowley (28-11), third, including four match wins and a deciding victory by fall over Wyatt Murphy (Hayden) in 3:42; 160 pounds \u2014 Dillon Tiffany (14-5), fourth, including four match wins and a loss by forfeit in the third-place match; 195 pounds \u2014 Alex Guardado (25-11), fourth, including four match wins leading up to a 4-0 decision loss to Anthony Miller (Paonia) in the deciding match; 285 pounds \u2014 Alejandro Robles (22-11), fourth with two match wins and a deciding loss by fall in 2:07 to Christian Matus (Hotchkiss).<\/p>\n

Wilson, Krauth, Garcia place for Demons<\/p>\n

Wrestling at the Valley Viking Invite on Saturday, Glenwood Springs senior Amos Wilson took second place in the 182-pound class.<\/p>\n

Wilson scored wins over Matthew Williams-Perez (Riverdale Ridge) by fall in 0:49, and Braden Baumgartner (Weld Central) by fall in 3:38. Wilson was out-wrestled by Cody DuBois (Bennett) by 8-5 decision for the title.<\/p>\n

In the 138-pound class, senior Erik Krauth won the opening match by fall in 1:13 over Logan Curtis (Platte Valley) and the quarterfinal by 8-2 decision over Adam Bartoletta (Holy Family).<\/p>\n

Krauth then suffered a semifinal loss to Isaiah Rios (Valley) by 13-3 major decision and claimed fifth place by virtue of a forfeit and no contest.<\/p>\n

Also claiming a fifth place at 152 pounds was Glenwood\u2019s Elo Garcia, who won his quarterfinal match over Shane Navarro (Highland) by fall in 0:56, before falling to Ryder True (Eaton) in 1:43.<\/p>\n

As a team, the Demons finished 14th out of 16 teams with 42 points.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rifle High School\u2019s wrestling team had several top finishers at the Front Range Valley Classic tournament on Saturday, including a championship showing by the Bears\u2019 Cauy Smith in the 126-pound classification. Smith improved to 20-4 on the season, earning byes to the quarterfinal round of the tournament where he won by fall over Wyatt Gardner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 01:54:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}