Fisher excels at Thompson Falls meet

Matt Unrau

In a virtual home meet for the Noxon wrestling meet, Junior Adam Moore held true to his state-wide number three ranking by winning the 171 lb. title and Rocky Fisher surprised everyone by placing a personal best second in 189 lb.

Fisher is in his second year of wrestling and despite weighing well under his weight class he wrestles at 189 lb. since Noxon already has a slew of wrestlers at 171 lb., but enjoys the competition, because it isn’t as fast.

“This is the best seeding I’ve got in a tournament ever,” said an excited Fisher after he pinned Pake Morris of Drummond. “I was just trying to get him in a half nelson, but couldn’t get over and it just worked out that I stacked him.”

Fisher was unseated going into the tournament, and Head Coach Kelly Moore was excited for his wrestler.

“It just shows that he’s a hard worker and he doesn’t quit,” says Moore.

In the championship match, Fisher lost by decision 3-14 to Eric Hilety of Thompson Falls.

For Adam Moore, the meet provided him an opportunity to bounce back from a third place finish at Choteau the week before. At that meet he was pinned by Ben Stroh of Chinook, the number one ranked wrestler, and is now working on becoming more aggressive in the ring.

“I’m trying to get better at shooting in,” says Adam. “That’s what got me against Stroh, trying to be too defensive, but he’s pretty solid.”

In a close championship match on Saturday, Adam beat out Taylor Brown of Eureka in a close match 2-1. The match was one of many close matches the pair have gone through so far this year including a triple overtime thriller in St. Ignatius.

“He needs to be a little more dominant,” says Kelly of his son. “But he’s doing fine and he’s working hard.”

Caplan Weare in 171 lb. placed fourth at the meet, while Cody Martens placed fourth in heavyweight to round out all the placings Noxon took home on Saturday.

Now in the next week Kelly says the practices will be all about drilling.

“We’ve been doing a lot of hard drilling, 30 seconds of singles and 30 seconds of doubles. “We’re trying to make it so it becomes automatic and they do not have to think about it,” says Moore referring to his wrestlers shooting in and taking any open shots on their opponents.

The team travels to Plains on Thursday for a mixer and then to Darby for a meet on Friday and Saturday.