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By Lillian O’Rorke

Under the glow of the spot-light lowered from the ceiling of Skyline’s gym Dec. 6, plateau grapplers went head to head. In a match where there were just as many pins as decision wins and even more forfeits, the Skyline Spartans eventually beat the Eastlake Wolves 40-30.

“We brought some intensity; Eastlake stepped up. Dexter has done a phenomenal job over there; it’s only his second year,” said Skyline coach Gus Kiss about his neighboring team to the north. “He’s got some young kids - but again they wrestled well, really great, technically sound kids. Our kids still had to step up and we did.”

The Spartans gave up 24 points in forfeits at 170, 180 and the top two heavyweights but received one forfeit at 106. And, Kiss expects that will pretty much be the norm for the rest of the season.

“We just can’t find kids right now so we will be giving up 18 points every time we wrestle somebody, but that’s okay,” he said. “We have to pin. It’s all about pinning; that’s what this sport is all about, is pinning people, and we are doing a pretty

good job of it.”Skyline racked up three pins,

all within the first period of the match. In the 113 weight class, Nathan Swanson (Skyline) fell Kush Jobanputra in one minute and 32 seconds. At 120, Kody

Nguyen (Skyline) pinned Konrad Peterson in 0:31.

As the night’s event started at the 132-pound weight class, Justin Manipis and John Monahan at 126, were the final two. Skyline was leading 34-30,

but a major decision, techni-cal fall or pin by Eastlake could change that.

“I knew I needed to go out there and secure a win,” said Manipis. “So, I just went out there and wrestled. I didn’t really think

about it; everything flowed and everything fell into place.”

Manipis pinned his opponent in 1:02. Manipis returns this year, after winning the KingCo

Photo by Lillian O’RorkeJonnie Estrada, of Eastlake, and Cyrus Sarkosh, of Skyline, work themselves into a pretzel dur-ing the 195 pound match.

Skyline alsobeats Garfield

In a dual meet Dec. 6 Skyline beat Garfield 54-24.

120: Justin Manipis, S, pinned Jake Green, G, 2:24. 126: Jacob Gehrett, S, pinned Henry Dahlgren, G, 2:35. 132: Fasil Alexander, G, pinned Joseph DeMatteo, S, 5:04. 138: Tristan Steciw, S, pinned Shehzeb Nasim, G, 1:10. 145: Joseph Gurke, S, pinned Shane Eckert, G, 3:50. 152: Tyler Aguirre, S, pinned Ryan Miller, G, 1:11. 160: Michael Mecham, S, pinned Jacob Rosenthal, G, 5:12. 170: Aaron Goff, G, forf. 182: Cyrus Sarkosh, S, pinned Kevin Strong, G, 0:34. 195: Cole Teller, G, forf. 220: Brain Lam, G, forf. 285: double forfeit. 106: Nathan Swanson, S, forf. 113: Kody Nguyen, S, forf.

Skyline wrestlers top Eastlake in plateau face-off

See WRESTLE, Page 13

By Lillian O’Rorke

Plateau swimmers went head-to-head Dec. 4 with the Eastlake Wolves eventually claiming a 101-84.5 victory over the Skyline Spartans.

Eastlake

The boys 200 yard medley relay team kicked off the lead for the Wolves with a first place finish that was six seconds faster than any of the other teams. Eastlake already had a four-second lead after junior Edward Kim finished the first leg. Swimming backstroke, Kim was the last one to bring his face to the surface for air, and when he did, he had already crossed into the second half of the Redmond Pool. Building on Kim’s lead was Kuroshe Mahak, swim-ming the breaststroke; Markus Zimmerman with the butterfly and Jackson Berman anchoring with freestyle.

The boys finish of one minute and 44.34 seconds was four one-hundredths of a second off from qualifying for the state meet. Last year the Eastlake boys 200

medley relay team took third in the event. Just like last year, Kim heads the team swimming backstroke which, along with the butterfly, is one of his strongest strokes he said.

“Walls and turns and underwa-

ters are a big part,” he explained. “If you do more dolphin kicks you carry more momentum from the start, which is the fastest you will be in any race, so I am just trying to carry that momentum forward.”

Kim used his underwater power to charge ahead of the competition in the 200 individual medley, finishing more than 21 seconds faster than anyone else for a state qualifying time of 1:55.90. Kim is no stranger to the

state championships. In 2011 he won the state title for the 50 and 100 free and went back in 2012 to claim the championship in the 200 free and 100 backstroke. While winning eight state titles by the end of his high school career has been his goal for quite some time, this year Kim is eye-ing something else.

“I’d like to break the team record for the 100 fly; I’ve been eye that for awhile now.” He said. The record of 51.49 was set by Nathan O’Brien in the event in 2000. “It’s a 13-year-old record now, so it would be pretty cool if I broke that record.”

Berman, a sophomore at Eastlake, captured two individual wins Dec. 4: the 200 free, with a time of 1:53.46 and the 100 backstroke at 1:01.86. Both were district-qualifying swims. Berman also swam the first leg of the 400 free relay team, which beat Skyline by more than nine sec-onds for a time of 3:35.04.

After the race Berman said he hopes to make it to state in the 200 free, as well as help the 400 free relay team secure the state

Eastlake outswims Skyline in early season meet

See SWIM, Page 13

Photo by Greg FarrarEdward Kim, Eastlake High School junior, bolts through the water on the butterfly leg of his win-ning 200-yard individual medley race Dec. 3 at Redmond Pool.