BILLINGS — Columbia Falls sophomore Shonn Roberts tore up the competition en route to his second individual championship at the Class A state wrestling tournament at Rimrock Auto Arena Saturday.

Roberts pinned all four of his opponents in the 112-pound weight class and won the tournament’s quick pin award, spending just 7 minutes and 47 seconds on the mat.

Libby 135-pounder Mitch Haugen and 171-pounder Austin Bailey each placed second, as did Polson 125-pounder Dylan Moll.

Roberts breezed through the first two rounds on Friday, pinning Corvallis’ Sean Galloway and Sidney’s Layne Schafer in 38 and 47 seconds respectively. He picked up where he left off in Saturday’s semifinal, pinning Havre’s Dylan Stewart in 3:14, but faced a different kind of opponent in the final.

For the first time all tournament, Roberts found himself playing defense in the opening seconds of the 112-pound title match against Billings Central’s Zach Wall. Wall was in Roberts’ face from the opening whistle and scored a takedown 15 seconds into the match. Roberts quickly reversed the momentum with an escape and a takedown, nearly pinning Wall as the first period ended.

“He was just focusing on brawling,” Roberts said of Wall. “He went out there to fight. He pushed the tempo, but I started brawling back and it led to good things.”

Opening the second period on the bottom, Roberts needed 27 seconds to escape and a quick takedown and pin gave him the win in 3:08.

“He was more of an in your face wrestler,” Roberts said. “Normally I’m more of a technique wrestler, but I just had to wrestle hard.”

Considering Roberts was largely unchallenged throughout the first three rounds of the tournament, Columbia Falls coach Jessie Schaeffer said it was great to see him rise up against adversity in the final.

“It was kind of good to see,” Schaeffer said. “He needs those type of matches.”

Roberts won the state title at 98 pounds as a freshman and was rarely tested as a sophomore. He finished with a 35-2 record and was undefeated against Montana wrestlers. Both of his losses came against opponents from Washington at the Rocky Mountain Wrestling Classic in Missoula.

Unlike Roberts, Haugen had to grind his way through the tournament, finishing his four matches in 21:35.

In a 135-pound final pitting two returning state champions, Haugen lost a 6-0 decision to Belgrade’s Bryce Weatherston. Weatherston scored takedowns in the first and second periods and a reversal in the third.

Haugen won narrow 4-2 and 3-1 decisions in his quarterfinal and semifinal matches.

“It’s kind of Mitch’s style to win those close ones and gut it out at the end,” Libby coach Kelly Morford said. “That’s what he did last year when we won the state title and that’s what he did all the way until the championship match this year. He’s got a lot of heart and a lot of guts and a lot of willpower and those are really his biggest assets.”

Haugen won last year’s 130-pound title while Weatherston was the champion at 125.

Bailey, Libby’s other finalist, was pinned in 2:48 by Sidney’s Ryder Peterson.

“We always knew he had the potential and the ability to be in the state championship match and I told him afterward I’m happy he can go forward with the rest of his life without any regrets that he didn’t wrestle to his potential,” Morford said of Bailey.

Belgrade’s Jerrett Degen pinned Moll in the 125-pound final and while the Polson wrestler was overmatched in the championship bout, Polson coach Bob Owen was impressed with his tournament as a whole.

“He had a fantastic tournament, he really did,” Owen said. “He just ran into a buzz saw there.”

Columbia Falls finished sixth in the team standings with 132 points. While that total was well behind Havre, which won the title with 233.5, Schaeffer said it gives his team something to shoot for next season.

“We have kids that are already talking about getting in the weight room on Monday,” he said. “They’re already jacked up about it.”

Libby finished ninth with 89.5 points, Polson was 14th with 62 and Whitefish tied for 20th with 12.

Columbia Falls’ Cameron Linstead placed third at 105 pounds, Seth McCall was fourth at 125, Haze Bell was fifth at 119 and Bryan Shaffer was sixth at 145.

Also placing for Libby were Zach Crace, who was third at 125, and Garret Chapel, who was fifth at 152.

Polson’s other placer-winners were Carlos Quinones, third at 119, and Craig Feistner, fifth at 140.

In Class B-C, Eureka’s 112-pounder Garrett White and 119-pounder Zach Durden each placed third.

Eureka was 13th in the team standings with 46.5 points.