Wes Woody/Special to the Sun

Kern Valley traveled to Edwards Air Force Base to take on the Desert Scorpions in their final duel of the season.

Kern Valley would take the team score 49-27 and went 5-4 in matches that were wrestled on the mat. At 106 Justin Steinberg received a forfeit win followed by 113 Angel Anderson and 120 David Mackey who both also won by forfeit. Desert received a forfeit at 126 and the wrestling began at 132. Steven Mackey went out for the Broncs and fought hard but was pinned with a few seconds left in the period. Up next for Kern Valley was Nathan Halliwill at 138 who fought hard and his conditioning paid off as he went on to win 12-7 making the team score 21-12 for Kern Valley.

After the first six matches. Weston Williams at 145 was next and he collected a pin in the first period. Eric Gutzman at 152 came out hard but fell to his opponent by pin. Kurt Evans 160 got the Broncs back on the board with a major decision win 9-0 (eight or more points ahead gives the team an extra point).

Bruce Anderson at 170 was up next and had a tough match and lost by points 7-1. Up next for the Broncs was Camron Lanterman at 182 who fought hard but was pinned with a few seconds left. At this point the team score was 31-21 Kern Valley. Edgar Tapia at 195 put the Broncs back on track and was pinning his opponent when he had an injury so Edgar picked up the win and gave Kern Valley another six team points.

Davie Powell 220 finished the match part of the duel off with a bang as he pinned opponent in 22 seconds. Tim Pulido 285 collected a forfeit win to give Kern Valley the 49-27 team victory.

After the duel match Kern Valley had a few Exhibition matches. D. Mackey picked up his first pin against a kid who was two weight classes above him. W. Williams picked up another pin in his extra match. Jett Williams showed a ton of improvement but fell to his opponent and Pulido finished the night of with a pin in the final match of the night.

Coach Wes Woody said, “We came out a little flat but picked it up in the top end. If we would have been in the HDL still we would have wrapped another title but because we had to go freelance this year we will just take that motivation into next year to win it again. We’re proud of all these kids who have put in a lot of work over the last few months and it is paying off. I want to thank Kyler Robinson and Jim Uribe for all their help they are the trainers behind all these kids working with them every day and they deserve all the credit in the world. Mirisa Smith for traveling everywhere and taking stats and photos. And I also want to thank coach Frank Woody for all his help driving and supplying food and water at the tournaments.”

Kern Valley will be hosting the Freelance wrestling tournament Saturday. Wrestling will begin at noon.

This is the only home event this year. Woody said, “Please come out and support the Broncs wrestlers who have worked so hard all year.”