Whitefish’s wrestling team dropped a

conference dual Thursday at home to rival Columbia Falls. The

Wildcats tallied nine pins in the 75-12 win over the Bulldogs.

Whitefish senior Wolf Zinke picked up a

pin in the heavyweight match, taking down Wade Motichka in the

first round at the 1:23 mark.

The 189-pounders put on the best show

of the night. Whitefish’s Kyle Bowerman took a 7-1 lead into the

final round with Travis Province. With the support of the home

crowd, Bowerman dominated the match with multiple takedowns.

Province, however, took advantage of a tactical error in the waning

minutes and ended up scoring a pin at 5:32.

Whitefish wrestles at Frenchtown on

Thursday.

Columbia Falls 75, Whitefish 12

105 - Shonn Roberts, CF, pinned Garrett

Rice, 1:59; 119: Seth McCall, CF, pinned Trysten Armstrong, 1:34;

125 - Cody Hader, CF, pinned Emmett Schmidt, 2:58; 130 - Josiah

Osborne, CF, pinned Judah Prestegaard, 1:56; 135 - Adam Richardson,

CF, pinned Matt Sampson-Keck, :57; 140 - Bryan Schaffer, CF, dec.

Austin Giles, 9-3; 145 - Kohl Thompson, CF, pinned Madison

McWhirter, 5:47; 152 - Travis Province, CF, pinned Kyle Bowerman,

5:32; 189 - : Marcus Ross, CF, pinned Jacob Forrest, 1:46; 215 -

Jacob Babcock, CF, pinned Aaron Vick, 1:06; Hwt - Wolf Zinke, W,

pinned Wade Motichka, 1:23. Columbia Falls won 98, 160 and 171 by

forfeit. Whitefish won 112 by forfeit.