Tiger wrestlers split home match, win 5 more at Bonneville

The Mountain Home Tiger wrestling squad had a productive week, splitting their home tri-match last Wednesday and winning five of nine matches at the Bonneville Duals wrestling tourney in Idaho Falls.

Mountain Home 46

Timberline 30

Mountain Home picked up six pins in their Wednesday night home dual win over Timberline last week.

Winning by pins for the Tigers were Chance Llewellyn in the 103 pound weight class, Austin Lisonbee (112), Cory Pinque (130), Charlie Shoemaker (140), Sergio Guadarrama (171) and Ty McRae (285).

Tyler Rios won a technical fall (22-3) at 135 pounds, and Ryan Goldsby (145 pounds) and Austin Clark (152) won decisions.

Losing by pins for the Tigers were Austin Lucas (119 pounds), Justin Johnson (160) and Solomon Chung-Hee (189).

Jon Ryan (215) lost by injury default and the Tigers forfeited at 125 pounds

Jerome 53

Mountain Home 30

Mountain Home also wrestled Jerome Wednesday night and came up short, 53-30.

Picking up pins for Mountain Home against Jerome were Austin Lisonbee (112), Cory Pinque (130), Ryan Goldsby (145), Austin Clark (152) and Sergio Guadarrama (171).

Austin Lucas (119) lost by technical fall (17-2). Losing by pins were Chance Lisonbee (112), Tyler Rios (135), Charlie Shoemaker (140), Justin Johnson (160), Solomon Chung-Hee (189) and Ty McRae (285).

The Tigers forfeited at 119 and 215 pounds

The Tigers went 3-1 on Friday at the Bonneville Duals, losing to the host Bonneville Bees 43-36, edging Hillcrest 41-40, beating Idaho Falls 60-23 and beating Madison 45-34.

Mountain Home went 2-3 on Saturday, beating Rigby 60-23, losing to Skyline 45-30, losing to Blackfoot 61-15, beating Shelley 53-18 and losing to Pocatello 61-18.

The Tigers finished with a 5-4 record at the tourney.

Cory Pinque (130 pounds) went 9-0 at the Bonneville Duals to remain unbeaten on the season.

Devonte McClain (125), Ryan Goldsby (145) and Sergio Guadarrama (171) all went 7-2 at the Bonneville tourney. Ty McRae (285), Austin Clark (152) and Justin Johnson (160) all went 5-4, Tyler Rios (135) went 4-4, Austin Lisonbee (112) and Charlie Shoemaker (140) both went 4-5 and Chance Llewellyn (103) and Austin Lucas (119) both went 2-7.

Mountain Home Tiger wrestling coach Lynn Knudson was pleased with the effort at the Bonneville Duals.

"It was very tough, wrestling nine duals in two days for the kids and I know that they're awful sore," he said. "But I'm very, very proud and excited about how we did as a team, the young team that we are. It's good stuff and we're going to be okay."

The Mountain Home Tiger junior varsity squad wrestled at a JV tournament in Twin Falls over the weekend. Tiger JV wrestler Jordan Pendleton finished second at that tournament.

The Tigers are off now until Jan. 5 when they host Nampa at home in a conference dual and go to Buhl for the Buhl Invitational Jan. 7-8.