Wrestlers wow 27-team Walsenburg tourney
Heavyweight Roderick takes division title Having exerted himself fully against a heavyweight-division semifinals opponent visibly outweighing him, and who’d conquered the previous weekend’s Rob Mickel...
View ArticleIHS Girls’ Wrestling sees first action
Ignacio’s Lady Bobcat wrestlers finally saw action as a distinct team Sat., Dec. 11, at the Bloomfield, N.M., Invitational. With senior Lexy Young, junior Faye Hackett, plus freshmen Audrey Roderick...
View ArticleHoliday rust hard to bust for IHS wrestlers
Bringing just five individuals to Pagosa Springs Saturday, Jan. 8, Ignacio Wrestling found it difficult to crack the top-ten at PSHS’ 2022 Rocky Mountain Invitational. Overall, the Bobcats totaled 19...
View ArticleWrestlers left wanting action pre-Melton
Multiple stops scratched before home meet Competition during the COVID-19 pandemic years has certainly been difficult enough to hold in any sport. But try being a high-school wrestler, participating in...
View ArticleWrestlers seek league supremacy at SJBLs
Bobcats clinch three titles in Norwood Denied by COVID-19 quarantine procedures a chance to compete in one last Butch Melton Memorial Invitational inside IHS Gymnasium the previous Saturday, one could...
View ArticleBobcats come oh-so-close to State podium
Two fall in cons. quarters; IHS places 32nd Nearly able to lift and flip Rocky Ford’s Kevin Tillman tie-down-roping style for a takedown and/or potential pin, Jeremy Roderick made a State Championships...
View ArticleHackett undefeated in first two meets
Eight matches, eight wins, eight pins — and two tournament championships. The 2022-23 high-school wrestling season may still be very young, but Faye Hackett’s proven she can, well, hack it. Coming in...
View ArticleGallegos leads wrestlers in Walsenburg
Sophomore earns third; three ’Cats place Certainly happy, as any high-schooler tends to be, over beginning the lengthy holiday break, Asher Gallegos may have been the one Bobcat wrestler not so...
View ArticlePage meet pushes Bobcats’ envelope
IHS gents wrestle to 18th, ladies 14th Preparing most properly to host the 2023 Butch Melton Memorial Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 28, Ignacio Wrestling traveled to, and competed against stout...
View ArticleBobcat wrestlers vie for league titles
For the Ignacio Bobcats, it was a case of ‘one for all’ at the 2023 San Juan Basin League Championships. Which meant that for most of IHS’ wrestlers competing Thursday evening, Feb. 2, they’d have one...
View ArticleIgnacio avoids State empty-handedness
Four qualify, three log at least one win Making new Ignacio Wrestling history while concluding her all-too-short prep career, senior Faye Hackett logged one victory in three tries at the 2023 CHSAA...
View ArticleIHS’ Hackett wrestles final match
Her final prep-level wrestling bout didn’t end as she’d have liked. But the mere fact she’d competed inside CSU-Pueblo’s Massari Arena as a Colorado High School Coaches Association All-State Games...
View ArticleBobcat boys 1-1 at M-CHS triangular
Larsen’s ’Cats defeat hosting Panthers Starting from the bottom position with only 8.5 seconds left in the third and last two-minute regulation period Thursday night, Dec. 7, with the score in his bout...
View ArticleWrestlers rank top-five in Walsenburg
deKay wins, three ’Cats place second Eight IHS wrestlers wrapped up the 2023 portion of the team’s winter schedule Saturday, December 16, in Walsenburg. Five closed out the Pete & Ina Gomez...
View ArticleIHS girls 10th at two-day Border Battle
The only Lady Bobcat to post a winning record (3-2) Saturday, Jan. 6, in Grand Junction, Ignacio senior Kacey Brown started the individual-style session of G.J. Central’s 2024 Border Battle with a pin...
View Article’Cats crack top-ten in Pagosa Springs
If one has to lose a wrestling bout, one may as well do so against a competitor whose level one aspires to reach. That was the case Saturday, Jan. 6, for Ignacio’s Aven Bourriague. Dealt just his...
View ArticleIHS girls on the attack in Arizona
Espinosa wins, Lady ’Cats take tenth Certainly not pleased over both Durango and Pagosa Springs deciding not to send any competitors to the Ignacio-hosted La Plata County Duals on Wednesday, Jan. 17,...
View ArticleBobcats tenth at Sand Devil Classic
Bourriague, deKay conquer all for IHS Traveling to the 33rd Annual Sand Devil Classic in Page, Arizona, Ignacio’s boys wrestled to two individual championships and ultimately a tenth-place finish...
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