Moore and Noxon shine at Mission

Matt Unrau

In an extremely competitive meet at St. Ignatius, Class C school Noxon shined as they came in fourth place at a meet featuring other schools with much larger squads of wrestlers including Frenchtown and Thompson Falls.

“Overall that is the best performance that Noxon has put together, coming in fourth out of 11 teams,” says Head Coach Kelly Moore who is extremely proud of his flourishing wrestling program.

“It shows that our kids are working hard and we’ve been building our wrestling program,” says Moore. “You have got to put in your time to build a good program. and we’ve been feeling the benefits of having little guy wrestling. It’s the process of building and I just happen to have a lot of kids interested in wrestling.”

Although Noxon is still a Class C school by designation, Moore compares his number of wrestlers to a much larger Class B school.

On an individual level Adam Moore really shone through during the weekend bout winning a nailbiter overtime match to take home the championship match over Taylor Brown from Eureka 6-5.

It was all tied between Adam and Brown after three periods initiating a one-minute sudden death round. After neither wrestler scored a point the match went into two more 30-second periods. In the first period Brown scored an escape point, leaving Adam with work to do.

However in the second period Adam went into the down position and scored two points on a reversal with 15 seconds left to just hold on.

It was definitely a nailbiter match especially for the Noxon head coach, who doubles as Adam’s father.

“I try to not holler very much, but it doesn’t work very well. It’s exciting. It’s fun to watch Adam wrestle, chuckles Kelly. “I wouldn’t want to be in any other place…I treat them all as my sons.”

Although Adam was the only one to win the championship match quite a few other wrestlers placed at the tournament. Caplen Weare ended up third in the same weight class as Adam, 171 lb. Cody Martin also won all the way through the tournament in heavyweight only losing, 1-4, to Devante Wilson from Frenchtown who won his last three tournaments.

Derek Jensen placed second in 215 and Ricky Couture wrestled well in an extremely tough weight class of 135 lb.