The Taylorville Tornado wrestling squad place 10 wrestlers on the podium this past weekend at the Clinton Invitational wrestling tournament held in Clinton, Illinois. Despite having a very young squad the Tornado team placed fifth overall with the following wrestlers seeing the podium:
106 lbs - Caleb Dean (sophomore) - 5th place
113 lbs - Nick Flannell (sophomore) - 4th place
120 lbs - Kidd Morrison (junior) - 4th place
126 lbs - Jake Smothers (sophomore) - 3rd place
138 lbs - Keane Rogers (freshman) - 5th place
152 lbs - Aaron Herkert (sophomore) - 6th place
182 lbs - Dalton Stokes (sophomore - 5th place
195 lbs - Heath Garner (senior) - 6th place
220 lbs - Kyle Tex (sophomore) 4th place
Heavyweight - Blake Hooper (sophomore) - 3rd place
Coach Mateer was very pleased with the results from the weekend and said, "We are having some pretty good days right now, but honestly, our best days are ahead of us and that is very exciting."