Slow start for Superior

Three Superior wrestlers traveled to

Polson last Saturday. Coach Charlie Crabb said that the match

didn’t go very well for the team and that they didn’t end up

placing anyone.

“We didn’t have a good outing. We took

three kids,” Crabb said.

The numbers were low because a lot of

the team’s wrestlers didn’t have a lot of practices in to be able

to qualify for the tournament. Tyler Wharry, River Sides and Josh

Wright were the only Bobcats to make the trip.

“Tyler wrestled pretty good and River

did all right,” Crabb said. “Josh didn’t have his best tournament.

He won his first match and lost the next two. It was kind of a

short weekend for us.”

Crabb said that they weren’t able to

get a feel for where they were, but he is hopeful that things will

go better this weekend. He said that the Bobcats have their

tournament this Saturday.

“We should have everybody in and ready

to go,” Crabb said.

There are duels on Friday night between

Superior, Mission and Noxon and then on Saturday, twelve teams will

be joining the Bobcats.

“We’ll have quite a few teams here from

the western area,” Crabb said.

With a bumpy start to the season, the

wrestlers will have plenty of areas for improvement. Crabb said

that they have the same goals that they’ve had every season.

“We want to do better every time,”

Crabb said. “It’s important that we practice hard and that we

wrestle hard on the weekends.”

Wresting is different from other sports

in that even though you can score as a team, it’s more of an

individual effort.

“It’s more of an individual sport,”

Crabb said. “Individual success carries over to team success. If

you lose, nobody else falls. You’re out there by yourself and

basically what happens is up to you.”

Crabb said that there is a lot of

discipline required for one to be successful at wrestling. He said

that it is one of the most physical and mental sports.

“If you aren’t strong in both, you

don’t do very good,” Crabb said.

As Crabb stated earlier, it’s not the

beginning of the season that the wrestlers are concerned about, but

rather how it ends.

“It doesn’t matter what happens at the

beginning,” Crabb said, “it’s how you finish. It’s rough at the

beginning. You have to stay motivated and stay focused.”

In team totals on Saturday, Superior

only managed four points, but is hoping to come back strong this

weekend.