Keep an eye on the Saturday, March 20, issue of the BH-FP for coverage of Bolivar High School wrestling team’s trip to the Missouri State High School Activities Association’s Class 3 wrestling championship Friday, March 12. Pictured here, junior Tyson Moore wrestles an opponent en route to s…

Liberator wrestling will send six of its grapplers to the Class 3 state championship meet Saturday, March 12, in Independence. 

The 2020-21 season came to a close for Lady Liberator wrestling at the all-class sectional 3 meet on Saturday, Feb. 20. 

After watching his team earn its first ever district title at the Class 3 District 7 meet in Grandview on Saturday, Feb. 13, Bolivar High School wrestling coach Jeff Davis was content to let the results speak for themselves. 

Liberator wrestling claimed second place at the Willard Tiger Pride Battle wrestling tournament Saturday, Jan. 16. 

It took less than a minute for Bolivar High School Drayton Huchteman to win the 220-pound overall title at the Monett Tournament on Saturday, Jan. 9.

Bolivar High School boys’ wrestling recently finished a spate of recent matches to close out the year.

Bolivar High School girls wrestling took on the 2020-21 season on Saturday, Dec. 12, competing in the Belton Lady Pirate Invitational.

As Liberator wrestling and the Bolivar community celebrated as the team booked its second consecutive trip to the Class 2 state wrestling tournament earlier this month, Bolivar coach Jeff Davis said he had to force a smile at times. 

Looking back at two consecutive state wrestling titles, a string of dominant high school and USA wrestling tournament wins, an undefeated 2018-19 season on the mat and an undefeated 2019-20 regular season on the gridiron, Hayden Burks’ overwhelming reflex is to credit his teammates. 

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For Jeff Davis, there’s sweetness — but also bitterness — in his team’s third-place finish at the Class 2 District 3 wrestling meet Saturday, Feb. 15.