Sulphur's Ike Flowers had a memorable week in wrestling beginning last Tuesday in a dual competition and continuing through Saturday in the finals of the Midwestern Conference Wrestling Tournament at McLoud Friday and Saturday.

The 113-pound Flowers first endured a four-overtime bout with Marlow's Chris Davis, eventually winning, 4-3, in a dual last Tuesday, and then he powered to victory in the Midwestern Conference tournament at McLoud with a fall in the finals.

Head Sulphur coach Drew Swartz praised Flowers' effort during the week. "I would rather beat guys during regulation, but it was good for Ike to get a match like that and come out on top. Matches like that test your character and he showed that he is going to give it what he has to win the match."

Flowers rode out Davis in the final 30-second overtime period for the win against his Marlow opponent. In the tournament finals last Saturday, he pinned West of Plainview to end a notable week.

Sulphur lost to Marlow in the dual, 33-26, but had four winners in the bout.

The Bulldogs also had two junior high champs in the tournament at McLoud, Steven Baker (165) and Hagen Garcia (Hwt.). Placing for the junior high team were Zac Dahl (110), 2nd, Keegan Brantley (142), 2nd, Wes Davis (165), 5th, and Raven Edwards (Hwt.), 6th.

The junior high team placed fifth overall in the meet.

"We were missing two starters who could have put us in third place easily, so I was pleased with the performance of the (junior high) team overall," said Swartz.

Of note in the junior high portion of the meet, Swartz said, was Dahl's second place effort. Dahl is only a seventh grader.

And, he said Keegan Brantley was tied at 2-2 in the period when Swartz gave him the go ahead to try a move to win, but he was thrown back and pinned.

Baker also had a good performance by pinning an undefeated Little Axe grappler in the finals for a first place. Hagen Garcia also pinned his way through the meet without much trouble, said Swartz.

"I was very pleased with the performance of the junior high," he said. "It is nice for the freshman to get a chance to wrestle guys their age. They have all been wrestling high school most of the year, so they get a chance to see where they stand against junior high competition. The junior high will be ending the season at Junior High State at Oklahoma City Fairgounds arena this weekend.

Sulphur's planned dual against Ardmore Thursday has been cancelled due to the Junior High State meet. Their next scheduled competition will be in the dual state February 11.

Marlow 33, Sulphur 26

113- Ike Flowers (S) dec Chris Davis 4-3 S.V.

152- Aguillera(M) dec. Steven Baker14-10

160 Gage Thomison (S) pin B. Shepherd

170- White (M) dec Blake Ray 12-5

182- Charlie Heitland pin Q. Maxfield

195- Lopez (M) pin Raven Edwards

HWT- Hagen Garcia pin McCullers