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Mounts impressive at Leagues


ImageThe Mounts finished impressively in 6th place over the weekend at the annual Lancaster-Lebanon League tournament. The Mounts improved 14 spots over last years 20th place finish. Although no champions were crowned from Ephrata there were six Mounts that did place.

Though he did not place Jeremy Martin (145) earned his first career win at the tournament with his 9-8 victory over Eric Kilhefner. Martin would later earn his 2nd victory with a forfeit win over Kevin Miller.

Corey Horst was alive on Saturday but failed to upset #4 seed Jason Weaver, of Elco, losing a tight 2-5 match. The loss prevented Horst from placing in the medal rounds.

The Mounts had three wrestlers earn 3rd place, starting with Jared Becker at 130. Jared lost to the #2 seed Matthew Myers on Saturday, but wrestled back defeating Jordan Stepanchik and Justin Lapp. At 189, Jared's brother Jordan followed a similar fate, losing to #2 seed Shane Rosenberry, before decking Kyle Diem and defeating Travis Nissley. James Zimmerman was upset by the #3 seeded Micah Byler, but came back to defeat Jake Walmer and Mike Stover to earn his 3rd place medal.

Earning fourth place for the Mounts was a pair of wrestlers, one living up to their pre-match seed, the other finishing considerably better. Blake Crowther (160) was seeded fourth and had a tough go with #1 seed Julian Colon losing 0-10 early Saturday. Crowther came back with a tough 10-9 victory over Daniel Olan, before losing by fall to Tim Greiner in the 3rd place bout. Joel Yoder (171) was seeded 10th coming into the tournament. But after losing his first match of the tournament came back to win 4 straight, including 3 on Saturday. Yoder eventually ran out of gas losing to Cameron Gill in the third place match.

Earning a 5th place showing was Zach Zimmerman who moved up even more places then Yoder. Zach finished 7 places higher then his 12th place pre-tournament seed. After upsetting the #5 and #4 seed on Friday, Zach got decked by #1 seeded Teal Stutzman, then lost a tough decision to Doug Weaver before deckign Josh Pavlik to earn the fifth place medal.

The Mounts return to action on Thursday as they host the Manheim Central Barons.