Sigourney, IA- Sigourney-Keota officially kicked off the winter sport season for girls’ wrestling as WACO and Washington both made the trip to compete in the meet last night as a wrestler from each squad exited the night with an unblemished record.
Washington, who dropped the co-op with Highland after a season, had four wrestlers compete last night with two of the wrestlers competing for the podium.
Allison Reed, in the 120-pound weight class, finished the night 0-2 after falling to Jordyn Jarchow of Lisbon and Bee Earnest of Pekin in the consolation round.
In the 140-pound weight class, Ryha Wellington picked up a quick pin of Tabitha Eggleston of Clear Creek Amana to start off her night. However, a loss by fall at the hands of Haley Pedrik of Pekin sent her to the 3rd place match, where she fell against Newton’s Johana Cerna.
Peggy Miller in the 145-pound weight class made a name for herself, pinning Layla Shilling of Tri-County and narrowly taking down Kiana Lopez of Clear Creek Amana at the 5:39 mark to advance to the 1st place match. Miller ended the night with the gold after a 1-0 decision on Aleigha Sheets of Oskaloosa.
Lastly, Jaelyn Entsminger lost by fall in both of her matches to Breegan Ellison of Moravia and Alejandra Hernandez of Grinnell.
WACO had just three wrestlers going last night with Elyssa Graber taking care of business in the 105-pound weight class. Her first match of the night was the toughest with her and Quynn Foster of East Union trading points until Graber nabbed the 9-8 decision.
From there, Graber pinned all of her opponents in less than 1:35 of mat time, including two in under 30 seconds as she finished the night with a 5-0 record.
In the 115-pound weight class, Athena Flores took down Alyvia Traner of Pekin in the quarterfinals; a loss to Reanah Utterback of Sigourney to relegate the Warrior to a 3rd place match, ultimately losing to Alivia Garcia of West Liberty by fall.
Lastly, Bella Bonar, in the 120-pound weight class, fell in both of her matches to Bree Earnest of Pekin and Kyrie Chapman of Grinnell.
Upcoming Schedule
WACO will be making the trip to Columbus high school to meet up with the rest of the Southeast Iowa Super Conference for a tournament tomorrow, November 21st, starting at 4:30 pm.
Washington will head over to Burlington for the Grayhound Invite on Saturday, November 23rd, with the first match scheduled to take place at 10 am.