By John Rittenhouse
Hills-Beaver Creek High School athletes produced a combined three wins at the Flandreau (S.D.) Wrestling Tournament Saturday.
Dusty Seachris and Kerry Fink, members of the Luverne-H-BC-Ellsworth wrestling squad, mixed it up at Saturday’s event.
Seachris went 2-2 to place fourth at 145 pounds.
Fink went 1-2 without placing at 130.
Seachris ran into Howard’s Scott Stangohr, the eventual runner-up at 145, in the tournament’s first round. Stangohr pinned Seachris 1:44 into the second period.
The Cardinal senior bounced back to pin Elk-Point Jefferson’s Mark Donnelly in 58 seconds before notching a 9-3 victory over Sioux Valley’s Burton Moe in the consolation rounds.
Seachris placed fourth when he lost by technical fall to Flandreau’s Wade Quick.
Fink was pinned at 1:36 by eventual 130-pound champion Derek Pirner, of EP-J, in the tournament’s first round.
Fink then pinned Flandreau’s Noah Luttman in 2:49 before being pinned in 2:14 by Garretson’s Sam Johnson in the consolation bracket.
L-H-BC-E placed seventh out of eight teams at the tournament. Cardinals’ Canaan Petersen and Cody Jagow placed second at 152 pounds and heavyweight respectively to lead the Cards in the event.
L-H-BC-E wrestles at the Jackson County Central Tournament Saturday before competing at the Garretson (S.D.) Triangular Tuesday.