Jefferson’s Daniel Barber (top) takes on an opponent at a recent match. Barber was one of nine Dragon wrestlers to take first place honors at last weekend’s area tournament. Photo by Al McLeod

JHS takes top honors at area tourney

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Brandon Reed
Wednesday, February 11. 2009
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Jefferson hosts sectionals tournament beginning Friday

The Jefferson Mat Dragons took another step towards adding another state title to their already impressive resume last weekend by taking top honors in the area tournament, and by qualifying all 14 wrestlers for this weekend’s sectionals tournament in Jefferson.

Jefferson scored 293 points to take the top spot, followed by Banks County with 201.50 and East Jackson with 168.50.

Nine Dragon grapplers took home first place honors, including Cason Thurmond, Daniel Barber, Clay Richardson, Cutler Finch, Cam Thurmond, Jay Fowler, Zac Crosby, Zach Allen and Patrick Allen.

Others placing in the tournament include Ben Knight, Cain Finch and Cole Hightower.

“(Things) went pretty good,” said coach Doug Thurmond. “Of course, you always feel like you could have done better in a couple of spots, but we did get them all through to the sectionals. Now our goal will be to try to get them all through to the state.

“That’ll be pretty hard, because our sectionals are pretty tough.”

The sectional tournament begins Friday at Jefferson.

For more on this story, see Wednesday's edition of The Jackson Herald.
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