Interview Final

Cole Jolovich
March 15, 2009
English 2
Interviewee- Andrew Lobach

An Unexpected State Champ in a Ground 'Breaking' Match

On January 28, 2007, Andrew Lobach beat the 2006 State Champion, R.J Williams, by default. I asked Andrew to recall the highlights of the match.

Finally, the bell rang and the match started. The match started out very boring but as it progressed through the rounds, it got insanely intense. Lobach went for the pin but R.J escaped and put him in a hold. He was held in that position for about 25 seconds. Once he got himself free, he reversed and got him in a hold. This one lasted for a little longer than the last one at a minute and a half but still no winner was determined. When Williams escaped, they fought for position but for 30 seconds neither one of them got the advantage. The buzzer went off ending the round. Lobach faked an injury so that he would have a longer break, since there normally is not a break between rounds.

The match got underway again and Andrew Lobach got the advantage right off and pinned Williams. This pin however once again had little to no effect on R.J. The pair tumbled and tossed with each other trying to get the advantage and hopefully end this long and strenuous match. Finally, after about another minute and 15 seconds R.J grasps onto Andrew and holds him in a pin until he escapes at the second before he was pinned. This made the crowd go wild. When Lobach countered out of the pin, he reversed it putting Williams into a final hold. As Williams tried to escape, Lobach's grasp there was a loud crack that silenced the roaring crowd. Lying on the ground was R.J and his severely disfigured arm. Finally, this gut-wrenching match was over leaving Andrew Lobach of Mountain Home, Idaho the Eighth Grade State Champion of Idaho by default.

Not only were the two wrestlers completely hysterical but they also were crying, which isn't a common emotion of wrestlers. Almost immediately, after the match was finished the paramedics were on the floor hauling Williams off on a stretcher. At the interview he said that all he did was look into the crowd seeing his friends and family there cheering for him and that gave him the momentum to escape the pin and counter it allowing him to win the match. Not only was this a memorable time for him but the other wrestler would remember it as well. The main reason he would remember it was because when he broke his arm it not only damaged the bone but it also did damage to the muscle and nerves making it to where he wouldn't be able to wrestle until about his Senior year and that would be pushing it. Although it was not likely that he would be coming back him and Andrew would work as best as they could, since they were friends, to get him back to health to where he would be able to wrestle again before they graduated. It would be likely that if he came back that these two would once again face off for a State Championship later on in the future.