Santa Fe South Wrestlers Growing in Number & Ability
Viviana Moreno, SFS High School Staff Reporter
December 17, 2015
Filed under Sports
The wrestling team has been working hard this season, and everyone has a positive outlook on what’s to come.
Senior Jose Arellanes, joined the team this season, not to mention this will be his last. Arellanes hopes that this season will help him get into shape. “Pretty bad…I could take down a couple of people, but right now that’s not happening. I’ll get better though,” said Arellanes.
Georgina Concha has been in wrestling for three years, and her goal this season is to win over 30 matches. Female wrestlers compete not only against other female wrestlers but also against male wrestlers.
“I hope we have an amazing season this year,” said junior, Akxel Hidrogo. Hidrago is team captain this year, and has high hopes of going to state. Akxel was recently featured in the El National Media newspaper.
December 17, 2015
Filed under Sports
The wrestling team has been working hard this season, and everyone has a positive outlook on what’s to come.
Senior Jose Arellanes, joined the team this season, not to mention this will be his last. Arellanes hopes that this season will help him get into shape. “Pretty bad…I could take down a couple of people, but right now that’s not happening. I’ll get better though,” said Arellanes.
Georgina Concha has been in wrestling for three years, and her goal this season is to win over 30 matches. Female wrestlers compete not only against other female wrestlers but also against male wrestlers.
“I hope we have an amazing season this year,” said junior, Akxel Hidrogo. Hidrago is team captain this year, and has high hopes of going to state. Akxel was recently featured in the El National Media newspaper.
SFS Wrestlers Battle Hard at Del City & Kingfisher
Santa Fe South High School went to the Del City Invitational this weekend. All of the guys had good matches but just missed out on the medal rounds. Akxel Hidrogo went 4-1 and had a chance to fight back in the consolations for third place but was thwarted by an OSSAA rule which only allows a wrestler to compete in five matches per day. "Akxel was rolling and looked primed to earn a bronze medal," stated Coach Brewster. "It was an unfortunate circumstance, but he got a lot of good mat time in anyway. All the boys did well; it was a good tournament."
The Junior High team went to Kingfisher and ended up placing 7th out of 23 teams and were just a few points out of breaking into the top five. Coach Levonitis stated, "Only one team had more kids in the finals than us, and we only brought six kids who were allowed to earn points for the team. Taking 7th with six point earners is a great accomplishment for these guys." The other eight Saints were either in the middle school division or non-point earning wrestlers in the junior high division.
Placers - Eric Aguilar (1st), Max Diaz (2nd), Josue Meza (2nd), Terri Hartsel (3rd), Moises Ortega (5th), and Jorge Rangel (2nd - Middle School).
The Junior High team went to Kingfisher and ended up placing 7th out of 23 teams and were just a few points out of breaking into the top five. Coach Levonitis stated, "Only one team had more kids in the finals than us, and we only brought six kids who were allowed to earn points for the team. Taking 7th with six point earners is a great accomplishment for these guys." The other eight Saints were either in the middle school division or non-point earning wrestlers in the junior high division.
Placers - Eric Aguilar (1st), Max Diaz (2nd), Josue Meza (2nd), Terri Hartsel (3rd), Moises Ortega (5th), and Jorge Rangel (2nd - Middle School).
SAINTS WRESTLERS IMPRESS AT SOUTHMOORE OPEN
Santa Fe South took 3 high school and 12 junior high school wrestlers to the Southmoore Open to begin their 2015-2016 season. Against tough competition from all classes of schools - Comanche, Harrah, Shawnee, Stillwater, Norman, Moore, Tuttle, etc. - the Saints picked up six medals; Terri Hartsel (1st), Eric Aguilar (2nd), Akxel Hidrogo (3rd), Max Diaz (3rd), Josue Meza (3rd), and Luis Aguilar (4th). Additional grapplers in the top six included Christopher Barron, Daniel Olivas, Oscar Hidrogo, Moises Ortega, and Gina Concha. Other wrestlers who fought hard but ran into some tough bracketing were Ben Brewster, Brian Aguilar, Fabian Seoane, and Allison Smith. "All of the kids battled and worked on techniques we've been covering during practice, and that's really what a coach wants to see", stated Coach Levonitis. "We will continue to work on technique, conditioning, and learning how to train to make it to the next level. The kids are coachable and fun to be around; now, we just need to learn, as a team, the level of dedication it takes in this sport to reach individual and team goals. I expect each wrestler to improve every week and we'll just see where we are at season's end."
The Saints will have their Black & Gold match on Tuesday evening at 5 p.m. prior to Thanksgiving Break, and then they will travel to Southeast High School on December 1st to open their 2015-2016 dual season.