Sunday victories over Easton and Mater Dei "A" extinguished any doubts about
the Archer Tigers' vulnerability due to their loss to the Oklahoma Rampage on
Saturday. Their finals opponent, Team Valley, showed no indications of
vulnerability all weekend, particularly not after their 38-26 domination of the Crusader
"A" squad in the semifinals. Archer's strength was in the higher weights
while Team Valley's was in the lower ones. If either team had an advantage
it might have only been a psychological one for Archer as they would start and
end the match with the brothers Bullard, both two-time Georgia 6A state
champions.
Daniel Bullard started the Tigers off as expected with a pin in the first
match. But that was immediately negated as Archer had to forfeit the 170
lbs. weight class. Team Valley did not stop there and added nine more
points, but Archer came right back with 15 of their own with wins by state
runner-up Quinn Miller, state champion Elliott Lee and at 98 lbs., Gavin Smith,
who was undefeated on the weekend (as well as being a Georgia "Kids" state
champion). But the lower weights in general belonged to Team Valley, whose
Portillo brothers, Justin and Josh, a state champion and a state runner-up
respectively, scored falls at 106 and 113 lbs. Vinny Artigues did break
Team Valley's hold on the lighter weight classes briefly with a three-point
decision, but Team Valley answered with one of their own plus a major decision
to forge a 10 point lead, 34-24. Archer won the next two matches by a
decision and a fall to bring them within one point, and then it was Thomas
Bullard's time to shine. Known to at least one Florida coach to be an
awesome scrambler, Bullard countered a deep single-leg shot and turned it into
a takedown that led to two sets of nearfall points for a 9-0 first period lead.
Bullard finished the match, and the meet, 54 seconds later to give Archer a
hard-earned 2014 Jazz Town Duals championship.
| Match Score |
Team Score |
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160 lbs. - Thomas Bullard (AR) pinned Isaac
Bartel (TV) in 3:15
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170 lbs. - Cliff Logan (TV) received a forfeit
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182 lbs. - Ryan Anderson (TV) defeated C.J.
Beasley (AR) 5-1
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195 lbs. - Noah Broderson (TV) pinned Noak
Llorens (AR) in 1:50
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220 lbs. - Quinn Miller (AR) pinned Elliott
Ahrens (TV)
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285 lbs. - Elliott Lee (AR) defeated Mario Pena
(TV) 6-2
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98 lbs. - Gavin Smith (AR) pinned Connor Johnson
(TV) in 0:28
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106 lbs. - Justin Portillo (TV) pinned Logan
Smith (AR) in 3:10
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113 lbs. - Josh Portillo (TV) pinned Garrett Hipp
(AR)
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120 lbs. - Vinny Artigues (AR) defeated Ryan
Leisure (TV) 8-6
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126 lbs. - Keenan Cook (TV) defeated Alex
Standridge (AR) 13-5 (major)
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132 lbs. - Carter Barkema (TV) defeated Chase
Degrenier (AR) 8-4
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138 lbs. - Trey Rinehart (AR) pinned Tanner Abbas
(TV) in 1:20
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145 lbs. - Avery Grizze (AR) defeated
Dakota Henningar (TV) 8-6
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152 lbs. - Daniel Bullard (AR) pinned Joel
Haberman (TV) in 3:06
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