Dutton, Chappell win State Championships

 

There are many similarities when you start comparing Guthrie’s Bryan Dutton and Landry Chappell. After Saturday night their ultimate comparison in the athletic arena is now State Wrestling Champions.

 

Dutton and Chappell claimed their first state championships, inside the State Fair Arena, with narrow wins in the finals. The wins are the first for Guthrie head coach Jack O’Connor and for the Jays program since 1992. The Guthrie program has now produced 11 state champions.

 

Austin O’Connor and John Davison were also state tournament finisher’s. O’Connor rallied for three straight wins after dropping his opening match to capture third place. Davison finished fourth in the consolation round and won two of his four matches. This was the first state tournament for both O’Connor and Davison.

 

Overall, the BlueJays finished in a tie for fourth place with Lawton MacArthur with 65 team points. Collinsville took the team title with 86.5 points followed by Deer Creek (82) and Altus (78). Collinsville also won the dual state title.

 

Dutton took the mat as the top seed from the West and took on the top seed from the East in Grove’s Spencer Rutherford in the battle of the “G” logo. Both wrestler’s entered with just one loss on the season.

 

After a scoreless first period, Dutton scored a 2-point reversal with :38 seconds left in the period to take a 2-0 lead into the final two minutes of action.

 

With Rutherford in the down position, he escaped from Dutton in the first 10 seconds to earn a point and bring the match to a 2-1 score. However, Dutton was able to keep his distance the rest of the way to claim the state title. Dutton is now 67-6 in his first two seasons, including 7-1 in the state tournament after last year’s third place finish.

 

Dutton’s football, wrestling, and baseball teammate, Chappell needed seven periods to win 3-2 when he escaped Chickasha’s Jacoby Brown in the ultimate tie breaker. Last week in the regional championship, Chappell ironically took down Brown by the same score of 3-2.

 

The 215 pounders were tied at 1 at the end of regulation. Both scored a point in the tie-breaker periods before Chappell escaped less than five seconds into the ultimate tie-breaker period to send the faithful in blue into an uproar.

Watch the complete video interviews with Bryan Dutton, Landry Chappell, and Jack O’Connor.

   

	Guthrie Wrestling State Champions
Landry Chappell 215 5A 2011 Bryan Dutton 140 5A 2011 Timothy Kyle 178 4A 1992 Parrish Peirce 190 4A 1992 Bryan Edwards 130 3A 1985 Bill Wells 123 3A 1982 Doug Stalnaker 190 3A 1982 Doug Stalnaker 178 3A 1981 Kevin Fields 190 3A 1981 Curtis Jurina 101 3A 1980 Ed Gibbs 155   1938

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Class 5A’s state wrestling results

Class 5A

Team Scoring 1. Collinsville …86.5 2. Deer Creek …82   3. Altus …78   4. Lawton MacArthur …65      Guthrie …65   6. Duncan …57   7. Carl Albert …42.5 8. Harrah …40   9. Chickasha …32  10. Tulsa Edison …31   11. Ardmore 28; 12. (tie) Tahlequah, Southeast 24; 14. Grove 23.5; 15. Western Heights 23; 16. Tulsa Kelly 19; 17. Coweta 17; 18. Tulsa East Central 16; 19. Miami 14; 20. Ada 13; 21. (tie) Skiatook, Shawnee 11;23. (tie) Pryor, Durant, McAlester 10; 26. McGuinness 1; 27. (tie) Tulsa Memorial, Carl Albert 0

Championship Finals 

103: Markwae Sanders, Duncan, dec. Hestin Lamons, Tahlequah, 3-2 

112: Gary Wayne Harding, Collinsville, maj. dec. Eli Hale, Miami, 8-0 

119: Will Steltzlen, Collinsville, dec. Mark Carter, TEC, 7-3 

125: Dylan Helm, Collinsville, maj. dec. Jazer Duran, SE, 14-0 

130: Justin Hughes, Duncan, dec. Zac Dunlop, Deer Creek, 6-0 

135: Eric Waggoner, CA, dec. Austin Goyette, Harrah, 3-1 

140: Bryan Dutton, Guthrie, dec. Spencer Rutherford, Grove, 2-1 

145: Keilan Torres, Altus, dec. Ricky McCarty, LM, 1-0 

152: Kenneth Hartfield, WH, dec. Colton Craig, TK, 3-2 

160: Zack Dobbins, Coweta, dec. Richard Griffin, Harrah, 3-2 

171: Nolan Boyd, Deer Creek, maj. dec. Drake Martel, Altus, 8-0

189: Max Adair, LM, pinned Tyler George, Altus, 2.48 

215: Landry Chappell, Guthrie, dec. Jacoby Brown, Chickasha, 3-2 UTB 

Hwt: Evan McGee, Ardmore, dec. Kyle Farley, Chickasha, 2-1 TB

Consolation Finals 

103: Donald Cannon, McAlester, dec. Andrew Revilla, Altus, 6-5 

112: Cole Powers, LM, maj. dec. Mitch Sellers, Tahlequah, 8-0 

119: Austin O’Connor, Guthrie, pinned Jacob Lusch, CA, 3.25 

125: Jake Todd, Ada, dec. Patrick O’Brien, Edison, 6-3 

130: Jemuel Duran, SE, dec. Brandon Hughes, CA, 11-6 

135: Trey Bowman, Durant, dec. Zack Abkemeier, Collinsville, 8-6 SV 

140: Cole Pacheco, Deer Creek, pinned Daylan Stuteville, Shawnee, 1.39 

145: Josh Pennington, Collinsville, dec. Bryce Armstrong, Grove, 2-0 

152: Chad Draper, Deer Creek, dec. Payton Atchley, Duncan, 1-0 

160: Jeremy Delzer, Altus, maj. dec. Austin Cook, Skiatook, 11-2 

171: Desmond Block, L, pinned Jake Welt, Harrah, 2.48 

189: Austen Brooner, Pryor, dec. John Jones, Duncan, 10-4 

215: Alex Christensen, Deer Creek, pinned Rich Gerow, Edison, 3.48

Hwt: Zack Hargrove, TE, pinned John Davison, Guthrie, 2.31

Consolation Semifinals 

103: Andrew Revilla (Fr), Altus, dec. Oscar Balderrama (Sr), Ardmore, 8-3; Donald Cannon (Fr), McAlester, dec. Dylan Bellmard (Sr), McGuinness, 6-4 

112: Cole Powers (Fr), LM, pinned Jamie Copeland (Jr), Ada, 3.21; Mitch Sellers (Fr), Tahlequah, pinned Jimmy Langford (Sr), Ardmore, 2.13 

119: Austin O’Connor (So), Guthrie, dec. Yahola Jones (Sr), Shawnee, 7-1; Jacob Lusch (Sr), CA, dec. Jordan Litton (Sr), Altus, 6-2 

125: Jake Todd (Jr), Ada, def. Aaron Guery (Fr), WH, forfeit; Patrick O’Brien (Jr), TE, dec. Matt Jager (So), CA, 7-3 

130: Jemuel Duran (Jr), SE, dec. Michael Varner (Jr), WH, 5-4; Brandon Hughes (Jr), CA, pinned Jimmy Roach (Sr), Grove, 5.25 

135: Zack Abkemeier (So), Collinsville, dec. Raymond Prescott (Sr), Deer Creek, 7-4; Trey Bowman (Sr), Durant, dec. Kanyon Weldon (Jr), Altus, 3-0 

140: Cole Pacheco (Fr), Deer Creek, pinned Tyler Shearer (Sr), TK, 0.48; Daylan Stuteville (So), Shawnee, dec. Sam Schrader (Sr), Ardmore, 7-5 

145: Josh Pennington (Sr), Collinsville, dec. Tanner Lackey (Sr), Deer Creek, 6-4; Bryce Armstrong (Sr), Grove, dec. Devin Bilyeu (Jr), Guthrie, 1-0 

152: Chad Draper (So), Deer Creek, dec. Corey Delk (Sr), Skiatook, 6-4; Payton Atchley (Sr), Duncan, dec. Dennis Murphy (Sr), Guthrie, 4-3 

160: Jeremy Delzer (Sr), Altus, def. Dylan Ussrey (Sr), TEC, by forfeit; Austin Cook (Jr), Skiatook, maj. dec. Brennan Trimble (Sr), LM, 10-2 

171: Desmond Block (Sr), LM, pinned Isaac Dyer (Jr), Collinsville, 2.39; Jake Welt (So), Harrah, dec. Vincent Opuiyo (Jr), WH, 6-1 

189: John Jones (So), Duncan, pinned Kentrell Pierson (Sr), CA, 5.23; Austen Brooner (Jr), Pryor, dec. Michael Conner (Sr), Guthrie, 7-6 

215: Rich Gerow (Sr), TE, pinned Newt Salisbury (SO), Collinsville, 5.54; Alex Christensen (Sr), Deer Creek, pinned Garet Hanning (Jr), Pryor, 2.56 

Hwt: John Davison (Jr), Guthrie, dec. Kyle Croak (Sr), CA, 6-4; Zack Hargrove (Sr), TE, pinned Curtis Hurst (So), Harrah, 0.56

Irish defends top seed in home regional

 

By: Chuck Chaney

Special to Guthrie Sports Page

 

The Lady Jays basketball squad could not overcome slow starts in the first and third quarter, as they fell in the Regional Championship game to the McGuinness Fighting Irish 46-26. Guthrie struggled against the full court pressure and allowed McGuinness to force 11 jump balls. Melinda led the Lady Jays in scoring with 7 points.

Defense was key early in the first quarter for the Lady Jays as they had their hands full with Irish’s Elyse Hight and Alexa Liendhard, who combined for eight of the Irish’s first 11 points. The Lady Jays were able to force McGuiness into six first quarter fouls. Lady Jays were unable to score until late in the quarter, when Gracynn Smith hit a nice back door lay up to put Guthrie on the board, Mikaela Murillo would hit one of two free throws with 6.1 seconds in the quarter to cut the lead to 11-3, Irish.

Mikaela Murrillo started out the second quarter nicely with a jump shot that gave Guthrie only their second field goal of the game, cutting the lead to 11-5. However, back would come Hight to scored on the ensuing possession. Midway through the quarter, Melinda Murrillo got into the action as she put in a break away lay up making the lead 17-7 with 4:43 remaining in the half. McGuinness would go on a 7-0 run until Ashley Shields was able to get to shots from the charity stripe to cut the lead to 26-9 with 3:00 left. Melinda Murrillo was able to hit one of her two free throws near the end of the first half to cut the  Irish lead to with 28 seconds left to 26-10.

McGuinness turned up the pressure and would start the second half on 16-0. Guthrie struggled to score from the field. Starting out the third quarter  before Smith was able to hit a basket with 1:22 remaining in the quarter. Shields got in the scoring as well, as she hit a couple of free throws. Melinda Murrillo would provide a buzzer beater at the end of the third quarter to cut the lead to 40-16.

The fourth quarter saw the Lady Jays get going offensively. Shields scored on a nice lay up. Smith followed an Irish basket with one of her own. It capped off a 10-2 run by the Lady jays which spanned 2 minutes and 50 seconds. Melinda Murrillo would hit a three-point shot late in the fourth quarter. Guthrie cut the lead as low as 44-25, but could not get any closer.

The Lady Jays falls to 13-10 and advance to Area Loser’s bracket next week.

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