Furisawa - Match three, July 3 (day 8)

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We met to leave Inatori at 6:30 am. There was a close bond between many of the wrestlers and their host families. This could probably be attributed to the single wrestler with a family as well as the three nights they spent together. The bus ride took about two hours to the north to Kanagawa Prefecture and Nihon University Fujisawa High School, a college pre high school of about 2000 students. We arrived around 10 am, and ate lunch then had a match at 1:00 pm.

The boys wrestled very well tonight as we won 7 and lost 3, defeating the Kanagawa Prefecture team
27-14.

Karlson Miller (Oak Harbor), wrestling in his final high school match, pinned his opponent in the
second period. (We have a photo of him leaving his shoes on the mat in  "retirement"

Rob Nagel (Arlington) was finishing a beautiful single leg when his opponent posted his arm and
dislocated his elbow. Injury default.

Matt Johnson (Auburn) looked good in a 4-3, 6-0 win. Really put the match away in the second
period.

Zack Brissey (Ephrata) was solid in his match winning 7-1, 4-3.

Zach Byers (Arlington) ran into a very tough opponent, losing 0-7, 2-5.

After a quick intermission for a karate demonstration (the guy broke two baseball bats together):

Ryan Burgess (Lakeside) lost 0-6, 0-6 to a much heavier stud wrestler.

Keith　Schlecht (Emerald Ridge) dominated his match (a much heavier wrestler as well), winning 3-0,
6-0.

In the marquee matchup of the night, 2A state champ Jon Millard (Lakeside) went up against the #3
wrestler in the nation at the weight class above his. Millard lost the first period 6-5, despite
outworking his opponent, who caught Jon out of position twice for three. Jon won the second period
with an awesome throw. The third period went to the Japanese wrestler 2-0.

Evan White (Southridge) won a good match 6-3, 5-0.

Cody Bradshaw finished the dual with a 5-0, 3-1 win, for his fourth victory in Japan.

After the match the Japanese threw a barbecue for us with hot dogs, brats, yakisoba and a lot of other food. Later that night we held an impromptu practice until midnight with the assistant coach at Fujisawa. They have huge spiders over here...

Karlson Miller's retirement match...
Second day in Shizuoka

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