Lakeside wrestlers #3 in STATE!

Lakeside wrestlers scored 120 points in the 2009 1A Washington State Mat Classic XXI Championships to take 3rd place team state trophy over the weekend. Orting ran away with the state championship with 201 points, followed in second place by Warden with 127.

Lakeside also brought home two individual state championships. Senior Bryan Baumgarden took the individual state championship in the 119 lb weight class and senior Jacob Lauderdale took first in the 125 lb class.

Other Lakeside placers included Second Place state trophy winner senior Ben Fuson (285), Third Place trophy winner sophomore Josh Lauderdale (130), Fourth Place winner sophomore Michael Baumgarden (112) and Sixth Place winner senior Josh Karas (215).

GREAT JOB, LAKESIDE WRESTLERS!

Lakeside bounces back!

Lakeside bounced back from their only loss of the season to defeat Omak, the #3 seed from the CTL, in a loser out game, 2 to 0. With the win, Lakeside advances to the state tournament as the District 6/7 #3 seed and will face Kiona-Benton, the District 5 #1 seed.

In a closely contested game, Anthony Froemke pitched what could of been his best game of the year, as he yielded 3 hits, striking out 6 and walking only 1. Hits were hard to come by for both teams, as the Omak pitcher matched Froemke in pitching a great game. Lakeside scored their first run on a misplayed fly ball to left field that left Travis Corigliano on second base. Scott Richards than sacrificed him to third, with a nice bunt. Corigliano scored when Jake Graham hit a sacrifice fly to center, driving in the games first run. There it stayed until the bottom of the 6th when Kyle Stillar led off with a base on balls, stole 2nd, stole 3rd and scored on a perfectly executed suicide squeeze by Richards.

You gotta love it! Well done Eagles!

Lakeside wrestlers take 3rd

Here are the final team standings of the 2007 1A Mat Classic XIX Championships (from the WIAA website) that took place in Tacoma over the past weekend:

1..ROYAL                     163
2..ORTING                    154
3..LAKESIDE(9 MILE FALLS)    146
4..VASHON ISLAND             118.5
5..OMAK                      101
6..WARDEN                    91
7..LAKE ROOSEVELT            70
8..NEWPORT                   63.5
9..ROCHESTER                 53.5
10..MABTON                    51
11..CASTLE ROCK               49.5
12..CASCADE (LEAVENWORTH)     47.5
13..CHELAN                    47
14..GOLDENDALE                46
15..TENINO                    41.5
16..KIONA-BENTON              41
17..HIGHLAND(COWICHE)         38
18..GRANGER                   35
19..MONTESANO                 31
20..KALAMA                    31
21..CASHMERE                  31
22..TONASKET                  27
23..ONALASKA                  25
24..NOOKSACK                  22.5
25..CONNELL                   21
26..CHEWELAH                  21
27..ZILLAH                    20
28..COLUMBIA(BURBANK)         18
29..FORKS                     16
30..COLFAX                    16
31..CLE ELUM-ROSLYN           15
32..WAHLUKE                   10
33..RIVERVIEW(KENNEWICK)      9.5
34..OKANOGAN                  8
35..CASCADE CHRISTIAN         5
36..NACHES VALLEY             4
37..FREEMAN                   3
38..STEVENSON                 3
39..BREWSTER                  2
40..BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN        2
41..KETTLE FALLS              1
42..LACENTER                  1
43..RAINIER                   0
44..MERIDIAN                  0
45..TOLEDO                    0
46..FRIDAY HARBOR             0
47..WINLOCK                   0
48..ILWACO                    0
49..WHITE SWAN               -1 

Great job, Eagle wrestlers!

Nine wrestlers qualify for state

The Lakeside wrestling team qualified nine athletes to the state tournament and won the regional tournament last weekend at Colfax. Qualifying nine wrestlers to state puts the Eagles in a tough position to win the state title, but the Eagles are up for the challenge.

Royal City, coached by former Eagle Bart Orth, has qualified eighteen athletes, while Orting squeezed an impressive thirteen out of their region. In an interview with Coach Jones about Lakeside's shot at the title, he said, “We have been in tougher situations before and come out on top.”

His competitive nature brought him to his next point as he said, “Twenty athletes or nine athletes, the goal is the same — to reach our peak level of performance. We have nine fighters going with us, and we are proud to head into a battle with these nine. They will fight.”

The state tournament is this weekend, February 16^th and 17^th, in Tacoma.

End of an era

Here is a great article, posted January 11, 2007, at SpokesmanReview.com from sports writer Mike Vlahovich on Scott Jones, Lakeside's wrestling coach. Under his leadership, the Eagles have won five state team titles. Enjoy the article...

Lakeside wrestling coach will take on new challenge

Mike Vlahovich
The Spokesman-Review
January 11, 2007

He built the Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) wrestling program nearly from scratch into one of the state's best on ambition and dreams. >>more>>

Lakeside Wrestling Coach Scott Jones
Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

2006-07 Wrestling Schedule

Date	Opponent	Time	Score	W-L	Record
Nov 30	Shootout	5:00p			0-0
Dec 2	Div Duals	10:00a			0-0
Dec 15	Tri State @ NIC	10:00a			0-0
Dec 16	Tri State @ NIC				0-0
Dec 18	Royal	3:00p			0-0
Dec 29	Vashon Invite @ Vashon				0-0
Jan 5	University Invite @ University	6:00p
Jan 6	University Invite @ University
Jan 10	@ Kettle Falls	6:00p
Jan 12	V-Tournament @ Orem, UT
Jan 13	V-Tournament @ Orem, UT
Jan 17	@ Mt Spokane	5:00p
Jan 18	@ Colfax	6:00p
Jan 20	Dream Duals @ East Valley	8:00a
Jan 25	@ Chewelah	6:00p
Jan 27	West Valley	5:30p
Feb 3	Districts	10:00a
Feb 9	Regionals @ Colfax	4:00p
Feb 10	Regionals @ Colfax	10:00a
Feb 16	State @ Tacoma Dome
Feb 17	State @ Tacoma Dome

Head Coach – Scott Jones