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The BSU wrestling team adapts to life on the road
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Four matches in four cities in less than 48 hours, over 20 hours of riding on a bus and a weekend trip that totaled over 1,000 miles. That’s what the Boise State wrestling team did this past weekend.
They began their journey at home against Cal State Fullerton on Friday night in a contest they won by a score of 17-15.
Although the Broncos only won five of their ten matches they were ultimately able to come away with a victory because of Tyler Sherfey’s major decision win in the 157-pound match.
Sherfey defeated Fullerton ’s Paul Tice by a score of 14-1.
Other Bronco winners in Friday night’s event included Nate Lee at the 174 pound mark, Luke Smith at 184, Andy Patrick in the Heavyweight division and Cory Fish in the 125 pound match.
“It’s not exactly the way we want to win,” BSU Head Coach Greg Randall said. “We want to dominate a little more. I think we lost a couple matches that we should have had. Even when you know you’re better than the guy and you end up losing, it just doesn’t set well at all.”
BSU did come away with the team win and Randall hoped that would set the tone for the remainder of the weekend.
“Anytime you get a win and you’re going back to back, it’s just a good motivator, a good confidence builder,” Randall said after Friday nights contest. “Plus the ride over there is going to be so much more pleasant. I think it was important, it was a big win for us tonight.”
Although Randall wasn’t overly happy with the way his team wrestled he was still glad to come away with the win.
“But it’s our first win, got to travel over to Oregon and weigh in tomorrow, so I hope the guys’ are ready to go, because we’ve got a tough road ahead of us,”
Randall said before departing for the road trip.
Randall was especially happy with the performance of freshman Nate Lee. Lee scored a 23-10 win over Fullerton ’s Ryan Bud in what was hands down the most lopsided match of the night.
“He’s a red-shirt freshman,” Coach said of Lee. “He’s really coming on and he really has a style we like to see.”
The momentum from Friday night apparently carried over to Saturday as Boise State throttled Portland State by a team score of 53-0.
Boise State won by pin in four matches and scored the maximum of six points in half of their matches on the afternoon.
Cory Fish won his match by forfeit in the 125-pound event, the rest of the matches were all lopsided BSU victories. Levi Jones won by pin in the 133-pound match and Cam Jones won by pin in the 149-pound event in one minute and 16 seconds. Tyler Sherfey scored a tech fall in his 157-pound match and Johnny Nunez at 165 and Andy Patrick in the Heavyweight division also won by pin.
Their celebration at PSU needed to be short lived. As soon as they finished with Portland State the Broncos drove down to Eugene, Ore. to take on the University of Oregon in the nightcap.
Making it the theme of the weekend the BSU wrestling team came away with another team victory against a Pac-10 foe, this time with a 27-10 victory over the Ducks. Johnny Nunez scored his second pin of the day in the 165-pound class in his match against Jake McCoy. Boise State won seven of the ten matches on the evening and improved to 8-2 in overall dual matches on the season. But their weekend wasn’t quite over yet, as they still had one more contest to go. Boise State wrestled against Oregon State on Sunday afternoon although results were not made final by Sunday evening.
KYE JOHNSON
Assistant Sports Editor