{"id":1318375,"date":"2020-02-21T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/glenwoods-wilson-grand-valleys-grice-take-tough-semifinal-losses\/"},"modified":"2020-02-21T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T06:40:00","slug":"glenwoods-wilson-grand-valleys-grice-take-tough-semifinal-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/glenwoods-wilson-grand-valleys-grice-take-tough-semifinal-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood\u2019s Wilson, Grand Valley\u2019s Grice take tough semifinal losses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Glenwood Springs senior Amos Wilson gave his all for a chance to wrestle for a state championship, but came out on the losing side of a 4-2 decision in his 3A 182-pound semifinal bout against Fort Morgan\u2019s Brian Paxton Friday night at the Pepsi Center in Denver.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe went up there against a tough kid and battled, and was up a couple of shots in the first period, but wasn\u2019t able to finish,\u201d Demons coach Miles Cook said after the match.<\/p>\n

A neutral second period led to a couple more chances for take-downs in the third, but again Wilson couldn\u2019t get the pin. A medical time-out for Paxton halted what Cook said was his star wrestler\u2019s best chance to get the job done.<\/p>\n

Another take-down attempt by Wilson later in the period was ruled out of bounds. \u201cThat was pretty much the last gasp,\u201d Cook said.<\/p>\n

That would have tied the match 3-3, but instead Paxton was given the point, and Wilson was sent to the consolation bracket with a chance still to earn third place on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day Friday, Wilson won his quarterfinal match by a 5-4 decision over Braden Baumgartner of Weld Central.<\/p>\n

Also dropping his championship semifinal Friday night was Grand Valley heavyweight (285 pounds) Hayden Grice, who was pinned in 1:22 in his match by University\u2019s Emanuel Munoz-Alcala. Earlier in the day, Grice pinned Carlos Flores of Alameda in 4:38 to advance to the semifinal.<\/p>\n

Grice also will have a chance at some redemption when he returns to the mat Saturday in the consolation semifinals.<\/p>\n

Three other area wrestlers are still alive in the consolation bracket, including Cauy Smith of Rifle at 126 pounds. After a hard-fought quarterfinal loss to Matthew Villarreal of Weld Central, who earned the pin in 5:22, Smith came back to pin Trevor Maestas of Alamosa in 2:05.<\/p>\n

Basalt\u2019s Ruben Samuelson (170) and Ernesto Lopez (285) also lost their quarterfinal matches, but came back to win in consolation Friday night to stay alive another day.<\/p>\n

Winners of the consolation semifinals wrestle back for a shot at third place, and the loser of those matches wrestles for fifth.<\/p>\n

Bowing out of the competition on Friday were Glenwood\u2019s Erik Krauth (138); Talon Cordova (132), Dillon Tiffany (160), Alex Guardado (195), Hunter Bercher (106), Bryce Rowley (138) and Alejandro Robles (285) of Rifle; and Conrad Demann (152) and Hector De la Cruz of Grand Valley.<\/p>\n

Other Friday results:<\/span><\/p>\n

106: Will Moneypenny (Berthoud) pinned Hunter Bercher (Rifle), 0:45<\/p>\n

126: Matthew Villarreal (Weld Central) pinned Cauy Smith (Rifle) in 5:22; Smith pinned Trevor Maestas (Alamosa) in 2:05.<\/p>\n

132: Talon Cordova (Rifle) over Brendan Jones (Fort Morgan), 11-7; Noah Damian (Valley) over Cordova, 5-1.<\/p>\n

138: Jose Campos (Jefferson) over Erik Krauth (Glenwood Springs), 3-2; Matt Pecina (Fort Morgan) over Bryce Rowley (Rifle), 4-2.<\/p>\n

152: John Sumner (Mullen) over Conrad Demann (Grand Valley), 6-4; Kolton Robertson (Weld Central) over Demann, 11-5.<\/p>\n

160: Dillon Tiffany (Rifle) over Adam Gamer (Woodland Park), 11-6; Dustin Clark (Pagosa Springs) over Tiffany, 9-7.<\/p>\n

170: Cole Gray (Woodland Park) pinned Ruben Samuelson (Basalt) in 3:08; Samuelson pinned Koby Ullery (Elizabeth) in 0:31.<\/p>\n

195: Alex Guardado (Rifle) pinned Tanner Eide (Classical Academy) in 1:55; Casey Harvey (Bennett) pinned Guardado in 0:49.<\/p>\n

285: Tanner True (Eaton) pinned Ernesto Lopez (Basalt) in 4:57; Lopez pinned Kyle Good (James Erwin) in 2:19; Kane Fobare (Weld Central) over Alejandro Robles (Rifle), 8-4.<\/p>\n

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Glenwood Springs senior Amos Wilson gave his all for a chance to wrestle for a state championship, but came out on the losing side of a 4-2 decision in his 3A 182-pound semifinal bout against Fort Morgan\u2019s Brian Paxton Friday night at the Pepsi Center in Denver. \u201cHe went up there against a tough kid […]<\/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-1318375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 16:36:09","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\/1318375","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=1318375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}