Hays Post
SALINA – The Hoxie Indians boys wrestling team placed eight in the top six, with four individual champions, as they claimed the 3-2-1A state wrestling team title for the fourth straight year at the Tony’s Pizza Event Center in Salina on Saturday.
You can find area boys results by clicking HERE.
The Indians Ian Giancola (120 pounds) and Carson Ochs (132 pounds) are now both two-time state champions after claiming individual titles last season and again this year.
Duncan Bell (157 pounds) and Sam Watkins (190 pounds) claimed their first individual state championship Saturday and both have now medaled in multiple state tournaments.
Kash Schiltz (3rd at 113 pounds) and Gavin Schippers (3rd at 285) have also won multiple medals. And with his third place finished at 165 pounds Easton Nickelson brought home his first medal from the state tournament.
Hoxie finished with 260 team points, Norton was second with 101 and Sabetha third with 100.5.
Other area medal winners include Tate Blackwill of Quinter who finished second at 106 pounds. He lost to Norton’s Kaleb Keiswetter in the title match.
Ellis’ Mason Younger became the first two-time state championship in school history on Saturday. He earned a first-place finish at 144 pounds with a 3-1 win over Dustin Loughrie from Haven.
Younger won the 126 pound weight class as a junior.
Hill City’s Aiden Amrein also repeated as state champion at 175 pounds.
Amrein defended his state title, at 175 pounds, with a 6-3 win over Gage Lee of Garden Plain. With the victory he became a four-time state placer from the Ringnecks.
The Ringnecks had two other medal winners with Dayton Stephen bringing home a third-place finish at 157 pounds and Alexander Hamel was fifth at 113 pounds.
Plainville’s Mason Hogan was the lone medal winner for the Cardinals. He earned a fifth-place finish at 285 pounds.
In the 4-1A girls championship it was Rossville rallying late to beat the Oakley girls by just one-half point to claim the girls team championship.
You can find area girls results by clicking HERE.
Oakley had five medal winners but all by one lost in their final match of the tournament and that allowed Rossville to claim the title with 82.5 team points. Oakley finished with 82 points and Chanute had 80.
Area girls medal winners included Kaydawn Haag of Ellis who finished runner-up at 140 pounds.
Haag was attempting to repeat as champion but Goodland’s Destiny Gonzalez, who finished second at 145 pounds last year, beat Haag in this year’s championship match.
Ellis’ Maleah Vine also earned at sixth place finish at 135 pounds.
Stockton’s Carolina Northrup became a two-time state placer when she defeated Kaeleigh Klein of Plainville for fifth and sixth.
Plainville’s Zoe Brown joined Klein in medaling for the Cardinals, she finished fifth at 145 pounds.
Trego’s Adrian Wynn captured her first state finish, placing fourth at 120 pounds.