Ev’s Wise Pins Heavy Loss On Eagles

East Valley heavyweight Ben Wise pinned Josh Castor with the first round running down on Thursday to give East Valley a 36-30 Frontier League wrestling win over visiting West Valley.

The Knights (3-0) retained their first-place lead over Colville, which also won. WV is 1-1.

Paul Pfeiffer (190) of the Eagles pinned Jason Moody with 12 seconds left in regulation, tying the meet at 30 and setting up the winner-takes-all final match.

EV’s Rusty Ruchert (141) trailed Andy Imada 15-5 before notching a pin. Knights freshmen Justin Walker (108) and Jason Alexander (168) had key wins.

At Cheney, domination from 135-190 pounds led Colville (2-0) to a 35-23 win over the host Blackhawks (0-2).

Ryan VanQuekelberg’s pin against Arik Moe at 141 and Brandon LaLonde’s major decision over Phil Nickle at 158 highlighted the night for Colville, the defending league champion. Josh Gilbert (148) had Cheney’s lone win in the middle weights.

GSL wrestling: The second-place Rogers Pirates (4-1) won every match from 101-135 in a 47-12 win over visiting Shadle Park (1-4-1).

Daryn Steeneck (115) and Mike Knight (122) wrestled up for Rogers. Chris Harris (158) and Shaun McMackin (168) had big wins for the Pirates, who trail idle University (5-0) in the standings. Shane Gruening (141) had the Highlanders’ lone pin.

Third-place Mead (4-1-1) won close matches early on and picked up big points in the final matches to overwhelm visiting Ferris 59-3.

Joel Edminster (129) of Mead defeated Chris Gay 4-3. Mead’s Kevin Beiers (148) edged Randi Olson 11-9 in overtime after scoring a takedown with 5 seconds left in regulation. Cameron Copher of Ferris (1-4) stopped Mead’s shutout bid with a win at 158.

At Central Valley, the host Bears (3-2) won 11 of 13 matches - six by pins - in defeating Lewis and Clark 56-12.

CV’s Shane Yackel defeated Lucas McGarry 1-0 at 158 by escaping with 3 seconds left. The Bears’ Brandon Brown (101) was slapped with a late stall point against Brian Lehrman, but scored a takedown in overtime for a 6-4 win. Jamie Firor (148) and Zach Ripley (178) had pins for the Tigers.

GSL gymnastics: Angie Giroux’s wins in the vault and balance beam helped her to the all-around title as her CV Bears won a four-way meet at Shadle.

Giroux scored 34.95 points in the all-around, leading a 1-4 Bears effort. Lindsay Linerud (33.95) was second in the all-around as CV improved to 13-2 in league, behind pace-setting U-Hi.

Amanda Dibble of Mead won the floor exercise, helping the Panthers (12-3) remain solidly in third place. Ferris (7-8), fourth place in the league, outscored the host Highlanders (2-13).

At LC, U-Hi (15-0) rolled along by easily taking a four-way meet behind all-around winner Kim Meyers.

The Titans went 1-5 in the allaround, with Meyers scoring 34.9 to the 33.4 of Kalie Cossette. Meyers won the vault and uneven bars, Cossette was tops in the floor and U-Hi’s Amber Hulbert won the beam.

North Central (6-9), Rogers (5-10) and the host Tigers (0-15) - in that order - trailed U-Hi.