Avery wrestlers Brock Yackey and CJ Vance have been in action this weekend at the state wrestling tournament in Greensboro.Both wrestlers competed on Friday evening's opening round. Vance fell in his first two matches, including pinfall against a tough opponent in Dixon's Joey Dzurilla to be eliminated from the tournament at 160 pounds.
Yackey was successful in his first match Friday night with a 11-1 win over Monroe's Zach Cooper. In Brock's semifinal match on Saturday he fell to Rosewood's Zach Behrend by a 4-0 decision to move into the consolation bracket.
At the consolation level Yackey wrestled in the semifinals and defeated Dixon's Chase Ponsock 10-3 to make the consolation finals and wrestle for third place overall. Yackey faced a familiar foe in Mitchell's Cody McKinney, and Brock won a hard-fought bout 2-1 to capture the third-place medal at the state championships.
Congratulations to the Avery grapplers on a great 2009-10 season.
