Glacier drops Sentinel
<p>Glacier's Zach Dennehy, right, is taken airborne by Sentinel's Matt Brownlow during the Wolfpack's home dual against Missoula Sentinel Tuesday night.</p>
<p>Kaleb Mitchell, left, tries to take down Missoula Sentinel's Jordan Hegel during Glacier's home dual against the Spartans Tuesday night.</p>
The Glacier Wolfpack lost the first four matches it wrestled on Tuesday night, but then roared to life with five straight victories and came away with a 45-24 dual victory over visiting Missoula Sentinel.
"I'm very excited that we got through this one. Sentinel has a real tough dual team and it was good to get past that one," said Glacier coach Mark Fischer.
"We really had some big wins," he said.
It was exciting all the way.
Kaleb Mitchell (130) got a last second escape to defeat Jordan Hegel, Zach Barber (135) claimed a 4-2 decision over Brandon Edwards, Jackson Barber (140) trailed 7-1 in his match before getting a reversal and pinning Sentinel's Luke Davenport and Cooper Sipe (145) was up 2-0 when he pinned Gabe LaCroix.
"This was a huge win for Zach Barber. He has wrestled this kid a number of times and always comes out a point behind."
"We were just kind of rolling from Alek through Cooper," Fischer said.
"The kids wrestled really well.
The worry after two tough weekends is that the kids would mentally leave early for Christmas break.
"But these guys were pretty focused tonight," the coach said.
"We had some kids that got to see varsity for the first time. It was good for them, a good experience for them and they did well, too," he added.
The Wolfpack is off now until Jan. 3 when it travels to Flathead to take on the Braves.
Glacier 45, Missoula Sentinel 24
Dual started at 189
98: Double forfeit 105: Quin Barber (G) won by forfeit; 112: Cody Decker (G) won by forfeit; 119: Dylan Schulte (S) p. Cody Settle, 1:49; 125: Alek Mitchell (G) p. Brad Volkman, 3:23; 130: Kaleb Mitchell (G) dec. Jordan Hegel, 4-3; 135: Zach Barber (G) dec. Brandon Edwards, 4-2; 140: Jackson Barber (G) p. Luke Davenport, 3:55; 145: Cooper Sipe (G) p. Gabe LaCroix, 5:06; 152: Joey Hiett (S) p. Grant Tafoya, :48; 160: Shane St. Onge (G) p. Mike Cloud, 3:37; 171: Dawson Day (G) dec. Bryce Dahl, 14-10; 189: Sawyer Depee (S) dec. Lane Armstrong 9-4; 215: Jayden Wilson (S) dec. Jake Tudahl 4-1; 285: Mack Brownlow (S) p. Zach Dennehy, 2:40.