“That was the message that we preached to the team. Me and Coach Findley couldn’t give it to them, they had to earn it themselves. “Everything they get is earned, nothing is given to them, and if they wanted it tonight then they were going to have to earn it. “We have been preaching all week that hard work pays off,” Indians technical advisor Joe Lathers said. Hall, Howard and Thrash delivered the match’s biggest wins. There were a couple in there that we expected, that we were counting on – we’ve got some solid guys in that stretch of weight classes – but we got a couple there that we really needed to have if we really thought we were going to beat them.” “We won some of the matchups we knew we had to win. “The guys wrestled their tails off,” Findley said. Gavin Hall (140), Malachi Goble (147), Deacon Engle (154), Matthew King (162), James Howard (172), Cody Freer (184) and Troy Galloway (197) scored consecutive pins for the Indians before getting to Thrash. I went out to wrestle for the win.”įittingly, perhaps, the road leading to the gym where Thrash and Co. “I knew I had to win, or I had to not get pinned, and that’s what I went out to do. “He got real high on my hips and I just bucked it off him and slid it over and got my two. “I always go out there to win,” Thrash said. He came from behind with a dramatic escape and reversal in the final three seconds to win his match against second-ranked Russell Clanton and leave no doubt that the Indians were going to advance. Even with a loss by decision victory was assured. Thrash’s job was simply not to get pinned and the Indians had it won. The Indians stunned the defending state Duals champions with seven straight pins after the opening bout to build a big lead. Thrash, just back on the mat after a week of COVID quarantine and admittedly “a little out of shape,” scored a dramatic, last-second 9-8 victory at 222 to lock up the match with incredibly five bouts still on the card. 6 Cleburne County 51-30 Thursday night to reach the State Duals Class 1A-4A semifinals. The fifth-ranked Indians had just taken down No.

Just as the coach was getting to the good part of his message, Brock Thrash suddenly bolted away the pack and out the nearest door to – how do you say this delicately – expend some victory chunks. PIEDMONT – Chris Findley gathered his Ohatchee wrestling team in a far corner of the gym to do a quick post-mortem on arguably the biggest duals match victory in program history. Ohatchee throttles defending champion Cleburne County to reach 1A-4A Duals semifinals Thrash clinches match in dramatic fashion Joe Lathers (second from left), technical advisor to the Ohatchee wrestling team, leads the celebration Thursday night as the Indians clinched their State Duals quarterfinals match over Cleburne County.

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