Reser’s Tournament of Champions 2024 Day 1 recap: Newberg eyes 3-peat, two No. 1 seeds go down

Two-time defending champion Newberg finds itself in good position to win a third consecutive Reser’s Tournament of Champions team title after the first of two days of competition at Liberty High School in Hillsboro. 

The Tigers hold the overnight lead by 31½ points over La Grande after the quarterfinal round was completed Friday night.

All four of Newberg’s returning champions breezed into Saturday morning’s semifinal round. Senior Isaac Hampton won his 126-pound quarterfinal with a second-round pin on Harrisburg’s Jackson Peterman, and sophomore Gavin Rangel (132), junior Gus Amerson (150) and senior Trae Frederick (157) also advanced.

Roseburg senior Gage Singleton, who won the 113 title last year, also reached the semifinals at 120 this weekend, and last year’s 160-pound champion, senior Jackson Potts of Mountain, moved on at 175.

Only two No. 1 seeds fell on Day 1, including a stunner in the first round of the 285-pound division when Thurston junior Peighton Rofinot won a 7-5 decision against Harrisburg junior Hunter Langham.

Later, Newberg sophomore Kiah Worthington pinned Illinois Valley sophomore James Conn with 10 seconds remaining in the second round of their 106 quarterfinal.

Action resumes at 10 a.m. Saturday with semifinals on two mats. The championship matches are scheduled to begin at 5:15 p.m. 

Team scores (Day 1) 

1, Newberg, 128. 2, La Grande, 96.5. 3, Sweet Home, 94. 4, Thurston, 79. 5, Crook County, 76.5. 6, Crater, 73. 6, Dallas, 73. 8, Bend, 71. 9, Canby, 70.5. 10, Mountain View, 66.5. 11, West Linn, 65.5. 12, Harrisburg, 65.

13, La Pine, 57. 14, Eagle Point, 55. 15, Roseburg, 54. 16, Redmond, 49.5. 17, Illinois Valley, 46. 18, Hillsboro, 45. 19, Silverton, 44. 20, Sandy, 43. 21, Sprague, 39. 22, Grants Pass, 36. 23, Liberty, 34. 24, Cascade, 28. 25, Culver, 19.

Quarterfinals 

106 pounds

Kiah Worthington (Newberg) 27-11 won by fall over James Conn (Illinois Valley) 20-1 (Fall 3:50)

Bragen Anderson (La Grande) 27-3 won by decision over Aiden Nelmes (Mountain View) 27-8 (Dec 9-8)

Michael Salas Sanchez (Thurston ) 33-2 won by decision over Casen Villastrigo (Crook County) 27-6 (Dec 4-2)

Drew Dawson (Roseburg) 30-4 won by decision over Jesse Landtroop (Sweet Home) 28-10 (Dec 4-2)

113

Jeremiah Oliva (Crater) 20-3 won by fall over Garrett Head (Sandy) 14-7 (Fall 0:12)

Carter Dawson (Roseburg) 24-6 won by decision over Tytus Hardee (Sweet Home) 29-10 (Dec 4-0)

Chase Hemphill (Crook County) 28-7 won by major decision over Mike Miller (Illinois Valley) 24-2 (MD 14-0)

Riley Flack (La Pine) 23-4 won by decision over Carsen Atterbury (Dallas) 16-4 (Dec 4-2)

120

Gage Singleton (Roseburg) 26-2 won by fall over Duke Wentzel (Crook County) 19-8 (Fall 1:19)

Colby Cook (West Linn) 16-4 won by decision over Billy Jackson (Redmond) 32-6 (Dec 8-1)

Luke Cheek (Harrisburg) 22-5 won by tech fall over Philip Alger (Crater) 12-11 (TF-1.5 2:59 (17-1))

Kyle Sieminski (Sweet Home) 40-3 won by major decision over Sawyer Keinonen (Newberg) 31-10 (MD 9-1)

126

Isaac Hampton (Newberg) 42-1 won by fall over Jackson Peterman (Harrisburg) 24-9 (Fall 2:19)

Jose Romero (Dallas) 29-5 won by fall over Conrad Baxter (Cascade) 19-4 (Fall 3:43)

Mason Wolcott (La Grande) 27-5 won by decision over Jayce Miller (Sweet Home) 28-10 (Dec 8-4)

Aidan Godley (Crater) 18-4 won by decision over Alberto Flores (Crook County) 18-5 (Dec 3-0)

132

Gavin Rangel (Newberg) 36-3 won by fall over Thomas Wippel (Eagle Point) 24-8 (Fall 2:36)

Sean Regas (Thurston ) 27-4 won by fall over Joey Hutchins (Crater) 17-3 (Fall 3:44)

Kai Carson (La Grande) 14-3 won by fall over Cole Rahi (Culver) 33-5 (Fall 2:31)

Scout Santos (Mountain View) 31-4 won by fall over Ryder Sprague (West Linn) 6-1 (Fall 0:54)

138

Zachary Keinonen (Newberg) 39-3 won by major decision over Eric Larwin (Bend) 36-5 (MD 12-2)

Landon Lavey (Crook County) 29-4 won by decision over Mark Astry (Grants Pass) 26-7 (Dec 3-0)

Oscar Doces (West Linn) 17-1 won by decision over Andrew Craven (Dallas) 21-4 (Dec 8-2)

Landyn Philpott (La Pine) 31-1 won by fall over Giovanni Silva (Liberty) 21-5 (Fall 4:25)

144

Tommy Belding (La Grande) 30-4 won by fall over Andrey Cernev (Sprague) 20-4 (Fall 2:56)

Dillon Le (Newberg) 35-5 won by decision over Devon Kerr (La Pine) 28-3 (Dec 5-0)

Colton Annis (Thurston ) 29-3 won by tech fall over Colten Williams (Bend) 10-8 (TF-1.5 4:20 (15-0))

Jaxon Godley (Crater) 15-1 won by decision over Kyle Zajic (Sweet Home) 29-13 (Dec 6-0)

150

Gus Amerson (Newberg) 34-5 won by tech fall over Skyler Salzman (Hillsboro) 28-9 (TF-1.5 3:51 (15-0))

Jaden Ellis (Thurston ) 26-2 won by decision over Jared Ake (Redmond) 35-10 (Dec 11-4)

Ryan Griffin (Illinois Valley) 29-0 won by major decision over Nephi Heakin (Harrisburg) 29-8 (MD 11-1)

Kutter Christensen (Crater) 19-2 won by decision over Jacob Landtroop (Sweet Home) 27-10 (Dec 1-0)

157

Trae Frederick (Newberg) 30-6 won by tech fall over Luke Rosa (Sweet Home) 28-11 (TF-1.5 3:42 (16-0))

Bo Zurcher (Silverton) 16-0 won by fall over Gavin Pogue (Eagle Point) 8-3 (Fall 5:12)

Brady Johns (Mountain View) 26-5 won by major decision over Landen Hecht (Harrisburg) 26-8 (MD 10-2)

Henry Dillingham (West Linn) 15-2 won by fall over Thomas Talmadge (Dallas) 27-6 (Fall 4:12)

165

Ridge Kehr (La Grande) 27-7 won by fall over Isaiah Parsons (Canby) 26-5 (Fall 2:58)

Lucas Gray (West Linn) 17-3 won by decision over Devin Martin (Harrisburg) 30-5 (Dec 8-1)

Cache Montgomery (La Pine) 24-3 won by decision over Trevor Johnson (Newberg) 16-5 (Dec 10-5)

Leif Larwin (Bend) 37-4 won by fall over Ryker Hartsook (Sweet Home) 31-11 (Fall 1:56)

175

Jackson Potts (Mountain View) 34-4 won by fall over Mario Page (Liberty) 19-6 (Fall 4:54)

Luke Augustus (Newberg) 34-8 won by decision over James Keinonen (Canby) 27-3 (Dec 7-1)

Ashton Swanson (Sweet Home) 34-6 won by fall over Deandre McDonald (Redmond) 12-6 (Fall 3:55)

Brody Buzzard (Harrisburg) 24-2 won by major decision over Kingston Thomas (Bend) 24-10 (MD 14-2)

190

Preston Echeverria (Hillsboro) 30-2 won by decision over Uriel Valdez (Bend) 22-9 (Dec 6-0)

Tag Deluca (La Pine) 12-1 won by fall over Orinn Hubbard (Redmond) 35-8 (Fall 2:59)

Kenya Johnson (Sprague) 25-3 won by fall over David Steagall (Sweet Home) 27-8 (Fall 4:23)

Houstyn Lee-Perry (Liberty) 16-2 won by major decision over Saxon Montes (Canby) 23-7 (MD 17-4)

215

Cole Langford (Dallas) 35-2 won by fall over Dex Dunlap (La Grande) 22-8 (Fall 0:49)

Brian Cortez (Eagle Point) 24-5 won by fall over Zadek Bowlby (Newberg) 19-15 (Fall 2:38)

Jackson Doman (Canby) 29-0 won by fall over Logan Hartman (Bend) 27-7 (Fall 1:09)

Norman Reynolds (Crook County) 12-3 won by decision over Lynkin Royer (Sweet Home) 26-11 (Dec 6-4)

285

Paul Masingila (Canby) 26-5 won by decision over Jared Scott (Sandy) 20-7 (Dec 7-4)

Kenai Huff (La Grande) 19-4 won by decision over Austin Phillips (Newberg) 23-12 (Dec 6-1)

Brash Henderson (Silverton) 11-0 won by decision over Ashton Fields (Redmond) 22-12 (Dec 5-2)

Garrett Matthews (Eagle Point) 13-2 won by fall over Kyron Dodds (Dallas) 25-7 (Fall 3:42)