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Ryle sophomore Cole Thomas, top, defeats local rival Isaac Thornton of Grant County to win the state title at 120 KHSAA state championship wrestling tournament at Alltech Arena in Lexington. PHOTOS BY JAMES WEBER/THE ENQUIRER
Walton-Verona, Ryle wrestlers win state titles James Weber Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
LEXINGTON – Spencer Moore and Daulton Mayer are like coaches for the Walton-Verona wrestling team according to head coach John Roth. The pair brought home A+ grades for their teaching Saturday at Alltech Arena, winning state championships at the KHSAA state championship meet. Mayer, a senior, won the 195-pound championship, and Moore won at 106. “Daulton has been a leader all year,” Roth said. “As an athlete, I wish I had 20 of him. As a human being, I wish I had 60 of him. He’s a great character, who he is, how he represents himself. “Spencer is like having another coach. I’ve let him dictate our lineup before and it’s worked out for us. He’s a smart individual. Every time I asked him to step up, he did.” Both Bearcats had dominant seasons. Moore, a sophomore, finished 48-0, with roughly half of those matches at higher weights, according to Roth. Moore won all five matches in the state tournament by pin in the first period, winning the KHSAA trophy given out for that kind of dominance. He had five pins in 6 minutes flat. “It’s cool to finally get to do this. I got second last year and it’s good to get the win,” Moore said. “A lot of hard work over the summer, preparing every day to get back here. Me and Daulton have been wrestling together since elementary school and we’ve been trying to get this goal since the beginning.” Mayer, a senior headed to wrestle for Thomas More, barely lost out to Moore for the quickest pins trophy, winning all
Walton-Verona senior Daulton Mayer with his awards for being 195-pound state champion .
Walton-Verona sophomore Spencer Moore after winning the state title at 106.
five of his matches by pin, totaling 6 minutes, 17 seconds. He defeated regional rival Cooper Elliston of Conner in the final, getting a pin 34 seconds into the match. “It’s great,” Mayer said. “We’ll put our name on the big board and in the trophy case. It’s awesome to be a part of the great teams at Walton-Verona. There’s nothing like wrestling. You can put other sports up against it, there’s nothing like it. It’s the hardest sport there is.” Mayer and Moore bring the number of all-time state championships for the Bearcats to seven, from six different individuals. Elliston had been ranked 14th in the state heading into the tournament before posting two one-point thrillers in the quarterfinals and semifinals. “This is the fourth time I’ve wrestled
Cooper,” Mayer said. “I knew he’s a scrappy kid and I had to get the first takedown so I wouldn’t risk getting scrapped over. I was happy with how it went.” WV finished fifth in the team standings, winning the small school runnerup trophy. “It’s all them,” Roth said. “These guys put in the hard work, the time. It gives us a chance to coach. I’m proud of them. They didn’t take anything for granted. They always stuck together as one, and they never thought of it as one individual.” Northern Kentucky’s third title of the night came from Ryle sophomore Cole Thomas, who defeated Grant County’s Isaac Thornton 6-2 in the championship match at 120 pounds.
What happens when religious ideology clashes with mainstream science in America? A documentary airing on PBS heads to the Ark Encounter in Northern Kentucky to find out. “We Believe in Dinosaurs,” was released in 2019 but recently made its PBS premiere as part of ITVS’s “Independent Lens” series. The documentary was filmed over the course of four years and zeroes in on the Ark Encounter, a 510-foot replica of Noah’s Ark that’s just off Interstate 75 in Williamstown. Filmmakers Monica Long Ross and Clayton Brown documented the Ark Encounter’s construction from its blueprints through its opening day, capturing the efforts of creationists, atheists and activists as they battle over topics like evolution and the separation of church and state. “We Believe in Dinosaurs” is the third documentary that Ross and Brown have produced toegether for 137 Films, a Chicago-based documentary production company they founded that focuses on America’s relationship with science. “I think it’s an important world that a lot of people I don’t think realize is there. This deep resistance to the idea of evolution on religious, moral, philosophical grounds, however you want to frame it, is driving this alternate reality,” Brown, a senior lecturer in Northwestern University’s Department of Radio, Television and Film, told The Courier Journal. The Ark Encounter theme park is a lifesize replica of Noah’s Ark, the vessel in the Bible’s Book of Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family and two of each of the world’s animals from a massive flood. See ARK, Page 2A
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