A final look at BHS sports in fall semester
Heritage is wrestling highlight among ‘only 3 events’
KNOXVILLE — Bearden High School’s wrestling team barely got its season under way before things came to a halt thanks to the Knox County Schools-imposed mid-December stop to all winter sports until early January.
“We’ve only had three events,” BHS head coach Donnie Floyd said. “We opened with a tournament at Heritage, and then Halls and Clinton came and we wrestled in duals over here, and then we wrestled at some duals in Pigeon Forge.”
The Bulldogs were last on the mat Saturday, Dec. 12, at Pigeon Forge, where they were missing five wrestlers.
Though Bearden’s grapplers have had to work on their own to remain in shape, “The mindset of a wrestler is that you have to roll and face whatever comes next. Our guys will work on their own,” Floyd said. “They’ll have to be getting out and running.
“I’m not really concerned. The county is going to do what it’s going to do.”
When Bearden opened its 2020-21 campaign at Heritage, the Bulldogs faced some of the top completion in the state.
But BHS had a pair of wrestlers reach the championship match: seniors Kyle Burns (126-pound class) and Matheson Meade (170) finished as runner-ups.
