2024-2025 Varsity Results​
1/10/25 weekend
We started the week with a home dual against a good Inderkum team. The dual meet came down to the last match and the boys won the dual 46-36. Great team effort. The girls lost their dual to Inderkum. The varsity boys went to a really tough, 2 day tournament - the Tim Brown Memorial. 87 teams were in attendance and Bella Vista finished in 14th place as a team! Very cool. Elias Castaneda had another great weekend and beat some tough guys to make the finals and finish in 2nd place. Amazing job. Max Keough beat a Nevada state medalist in the semifinals to the make the finals and finish in 2nd place. Amazing job. Diego Leidecker lost early and then won a bunch of matches in a row and battled back for a medal to finish in 8th place. Amazing job. We are improving every single week.
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Weekend #5
The varsity boys went down to Los Angeles for the Sonora TOC. There were about 75 teams down there and it was a really tough tournament. Elias Castaneda got the #2 seed, but didn't get to wrestle because of the car accident on the way down (story is on the parent section, but everybody is healthy and safe). The rest of the team got down to L.A. after a 9 hour trip, had a practice, went to the hotel, and then got back to the tournament early on Friday morning. Everybody wrestled very well, and it was a very tough tournament. Diego Leidecker made the quarterinals and then lost a close match to the guy who got 2nd. Diego then battled back and finished in 6th place. Awesome tournament for Diego. Max Keough maintained his high level and finished in 2nd place. Max beat the #23 ranked guy in the state in the semifinals by a score of 14-2. In the finals, Max went against the #5 ranked guy in the state and lost 14-8. Max is getting better every single week. It was a long weekend, but very positive with a lot of growth.
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The girls were at the Quarry Queen tournament this weekend. Emma Ford battled HARD all tournament long and finished in 6th place. Hard, tough matches for Emma and she's continuing to improve.
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Weekend #4
It's hard to believe that we've already had 4 varsity tournaments. Time goes fast when you're having fun.
Dual Meet on Wednesday night - we had a CVC league dual meet on Wednesday night that was a lot of fun. We had the Jr. Broncos wrestlers in attendance and also celebrated Alumni Night. It was really fun to see so many kids and families that I've coached in the past. Things were a little different with planning this year, but I plan on growing the alumni night next year with a couple of events. Anyway, our girls went against a good Rio Americano team and lost, but split the matches that were wrestled. Our girls are now 1-1 in league. Our boys beat Rio Americano 67-9, a great showing! The boys are now 1-1 in league.
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Varsity Boys- the boys were at 2 different tournaments this weekend. Elias, Diego, and Max went down to Buchanan high school in Fresno to compete in the Zinkin tournament. This is one of the toughest tournaments in California and these 3 definitely need to attend tougher tournaments to get more of a challenge. Unfortunately, Diego got the flu and had to forfeit out after his first match. Max Keough wrestled amazing and finished in 4th place. Max lost his last match in triple overtime to the #10 ranked wrestler in the state. Elias also wrestled amazing and beat a lot of ranked wrestlers to finish in 3rd place. Great showing by these guys. Our other guys competed at the Marty Manges tournament at Casa Roble. This is always a challenging tournament. Leading the way was Daxon Trumbull, who finished in 3rd place. Will Hedrick finished in 5th place and Evander Leidecker finished in 6th place. The flu bug hit us hard this past weekend and we only had 8 guys competing at the Casa tournament.
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Our girls competed at the Women's West Coast TOC in Roseville. This tournament has wrestlers from multiple states and is a very tough tournament. Sadie Keough was the only wrestler to make day 2, but Coach Nishimura said all of our girls are improving in a rapid way and they are on the verge of taking it to the next level.
Weekend #3
We started the week with a dual meet at Ponderosa on Wednesday night. Ponderosa has an excellent team, with half of their wrestlers ranked in the state. They didn't disappoint and we only won 4 of the 14 matches, but we learned a lot and Ponderosa made us better. Our girls won Bella Vista's first ever girls dual meet. Great job, girls!!!!!! Boys are 0-1 and Girls are 1-0.
Varsity Boys - The varsity boys competed at a very tough tournament at Elk Grove on Saturday. Elias Castaneda finished in 2nd place after a great tournament. Elias pinned a kid in the semifinals who is ranked in state and the kid and him were 1-1 against each other prior to that match In the finals, Elias wrestled a defending state medalist and lost 4-6. Elias was in on a takedown at the end of the match but fell short. Diego Leidecker finished in 3rd place and got better as the tournament went on. Diego lost to a Ponderosa kid in the quarterfinals, the same kid he beat in the dual a few days prior. Diego was winning 6-0 and then got pinned. Diego wrestled the same kid for the 3rd place match and won 10-2. Will Hedrick finished as a 5th place medalist. Max Keough took first place and he is now a 3x Curt Mettler Tournament Champion. Great work.
Varsity Girls - the girls competed in a last minute tournament at Lincoln HS so these were some bonus matches. Emma Ford made the semifinals and the injury defaulted out of the tournament. Myleigh Litsas finished as a 4th place medalist!
Weekend #2
Varsity Boys - The varsity boys competed in a very tough, 9 team dual meet rotation at Vacaville High School on Friday and Saturday. We had 4 dual meets on Friday and 4 dual meets on Saturday. There were some really tough teams from the Clovis area, Gilroy, Reno, and the Bay Area. We hadn't won a dual here in 4 years and we ended up going 3-5 but that could have easily been 5-3 because 2 dual meets were decided by 1 match. Elias Castaneda went 7-1 on the weekend and beat the #28 ranked and #29 ranked guys in state back to back. Elias' only loss was to the #5 in state and it was a great match 8-14. Elias can go with anyone. Jaharie Osborne was the surprise of the weekend and was the only BV wrestler to earn "All-Tournament" for BV. Overall, the team improved in every single match and we looked really good. I'm very proud.
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Varsity Girls - the girls wrestled at the Casa Roble tournament where Emma Ford found her rhythm again and finished in 1st place. Emma won every match by pin or tech-fall. 2 years ago Emma finished in the top 12 of state and she's been adjusting after missing last season due to injury. Sadie Keough (Coach Keough's daughter) is improving tremendously every single day and she ended up in 4th place at this tournament! As a first year wrestler, being able to medal in your 2nd varsity tournament ever is amazing. The girls will wrestle at Ponderosa on Wednesday night and then travel to Lincoln of Lincoln HS on Saturday.
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Weekend #1
Varsity Boys - we traveled to a tough tournament at Redwood High School in Larkspur. Our team had a good tournament and finished in 8th place out of 31 teams. Elias Castaneda and Max Keough both took first place in the tournament and pinned every person they wrestled. Great job! Aiden Trunzo won the consolation bracket, as did Frank Olivera. Diego Leidecker finished in 3rd place. Those were our only medalists but our team wrestled well and the coaches noticed a lot of areas that we need to work on as a team. We are going to get back to practice and get a lot better this week! I'm proud of the team​
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Girls - the girls wrestled at the Folsom tournament. This is always a tough tournament and most of our girls were wrestling in their first high school wrestling matches, ever. Sadie Keough, Danielle Schmidt, and Emma Ford all went 1-2. Alice Myronyuk went 2-2 and finished in the top 6. Justine Allen and Myleigh Litsas also competed.
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