Bodies smashing, buzzers ringing, and the echo of the coach yelling all ran through the heads of the Eagle wrestlers during the first half of the season.
The lady Eagles did better than expected at the Frisco Tournament in Dallas, Texas. None placed, but each wrestler brought back more wrestling knowledge and experience.
“Frisco went well, better than I expected,” Tambunga said. “This tournament brought a good outlook on what to focus on during practice so we can do better at future matches and tournaments.”
The boys traveled to the Leander tournament and did well as senior Frank Callahan placed first along with freshmen Diego Rivera and Nathan Carranza. Junior Austin Boles placed second and sophomore Trey Aguirre placed third.
However, one of the coaches feels that the tournament was a disappointment by the performance that was show by his wrestlers.
“Some of the guys proved their skills and the outcome is what they deserved, but for some of the other wrestlers I was pretty disappointed because they could have performed much better at the tournament.”
Coach Tambunga and Kirksey had bittersweet feelings towards the end of the night against their Travis Rebel opponents. The lady Eagles beat their lady Rebel opponents in impressive fashion but the boy’s team did not experience similar results.
“I believe if we had a full team we could have beat the Travis Rebels,” Kirksey said. “We had to forfeit more meets than we originally expected and that is what our problem is.”
Anna Becerra feels that the Travis meet started off her season well since it was her first meet of the season and she won.
“When I went to other meets and tournaments there was no one else in my weight class so I was not able to wrestle anyone until the Travis meet,” Becerra said. “Since I won, it started off my season on a good note and it should help me get a higher seed when I wrestle in future tournaments.”
