Tiger wrestler finishes second at Reno event

Mountain Home Tigers wrestler Pierce Mederios came home with a second-place medal from the Reno World Wrestling Tournament.

The tournament is the biggest folk-style wrestling tournament in the country with wrestlers from five different countries competing.

Mederios, who won Idaho's state wrestling championship in his first two years of high school wrestling, went 6-1 in the 106-pound weight class at the Nevada tournament.

Pierce Mederios finished his sophomore year at Mountain Home High School with his second consecutive state wrestling title. He went on to finish second in his weight class at the Reno World Wrestling Tournament.

He lost the championship in a 3-1 decision to the wrestler from Oregon that won two decisions from him this past season -- his only two losses of the high school season.

Tigers' teammate Hunter McCluskey also competed at the Reno tourney, going 2-2 in four matches in the 97-pound weight class.

Mountain Home Tigers wrestling head coach Lynn Knudson was proud of the efforts by his two wrestlers at the Reno tourney.

"Hunter wrestled well, with one pin, and his second loss was a close overtime battle," the coach said. "Pierce ended up beating the kids that placed third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. His only loss came to the same opponent that he lost to in the high school season -- another really close match."