Herres and Magill are champs

Pomeroy Middle Schoolers Kyzer Herres and Gunner Magill are Bi-State Wrestling Champions.

Gunner Magill finished his Junior High career with an undefeated season, going 21-0, said Coach Fred Knebel. Magill missed the record (22-0) by one due to not having another match scheduled. He did break Tory Knebel’s 2 Pt. Nearfall Record with 23 (previous record was 20).

Kyzer Herres came up one 3 Pt. Nearfall short of breaking the record of 35…he was trying to get one more 3 pt. Nearfall when the ref called the pin.

“I truly believe these wrestlers will have tremendous high school careers in wrestling and many more records will fall,” said Knebel.

Placing third for the Pirates were Michealle DeBord and Kole Zimmerman. DeBord placed third in both the girls and boys 121 lb. brackets. Placing fourth at Bi-State were Rory McKeirnan and Michael DeBord.

Levi Bowen, Marcus Parks, and James Blachly all gave a good showing but came up short regarding the podium.

Peyton Cannon went 6-0 before his season-ending injury that required surgery. “This was terribly disappointing as he really was becoming a tremendous wrestler,” Knebel said. “All of these wrestlers were fantastic to coach, they were always wanting to learn and they were at every practice. I was truly amazed at their dedication and will to learn. An absolute great bunch of kids to work with, super proud to be their coach!”

At LHS Bi-State Wrestling Tournament 2022 Rory McKeirnan 6th grader first year wrestler went 7-7 on the season, pinned (Jen) 3rd…lost by pin (Sac), won by dec. 9-3 (Mos) lost by pin (Pot) Marcus Parks lost by pin (Oro), lost by pin (Pull) Michealle DeBord went 13-8 on the season won by pin (Oro) lost by pin (Sac) won by pin (Jen) lost by pin (Sac) won by pin (Pull) won by pin (Pot) Lost by pin (CV) Kyzer Herres went 17-3 on the season won by TF (Mos) won by TF (Jen) won by pin (Mos) Kole Zimmerman went 9-9 for the season lost by pin (CV) won by pin (Pull) won by pin (CV) won by dec. (Mos) lost by pin (GrangeV) Levi Bowen went 12-4 on the season won by pin (Jen) lost by pin (Clarks) lost by pin (GrangeV) Michael DeBord went 8-4 on the season won by pin (Clarks) lost by pin (Oro) won by pin (Jen) lost by pin (Jen) Gunner Magill went 21-0 on the season won by TF (Sac) won by pin (Pull) won by pin (Mos) James Blachly lost by pin (CV) lost by pin (Clarks).