CHECKING SPORTS RESULTS FROM SATURDAY NIGHT.
THE INDIVIDUAL STATE PRELIMINARY WRESTLING TOURNAMENT WAS HELD SATURDAY IN WINDOM. THERE WERE 8 WRESTLERS IN EACH WEIGHT CLASS – FOUR FROM SECTION 2-A AND FOUR FROM SECTION 3-A. THE TOP TWO WRESTLERS IN EACH WEIGHT CLASS QUALIFIED FOR NEXT WEEK’S INDIVIDUAL STATE TOURNAMENT.
FOR THE COBRAS OF WINDOM-MT LAKE, KADE SAMMONS WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP AT 138 POUNDS AND GOES TO STATE. CADEN SWOBODA FINISHED IN 4TH PLACE AT 132 POUNDS.
FOR TRACY-MILROY-BALATON/WESTBROOK-WALNUT GROVE: AYDEN HORNER WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP AT 132 POUNDS. CADEN JOHNSON WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP AT 170 POUNDS. THREE OTHER PANTHERS FINISHED IN 3RD PLACE. DEVIN CARTER AT 113 POUNDS AND ALEXANDER SCHUH AT 126 POUNDS EACH LOST A ‘TRUE SECOND MATCH.’ GABE KRICK DID NOT QUALIFY FOR A ‘TRUE SECOND MATCH AND FINISHED 3RD AT 160.
RED ROCK CENTRAL HAD FOUR WRESTLERS IN THE MEET, BUT NO PLACE-WINNERS.
FULDA-MURRAY COUNTY CENTRAL HAD ONE WRESTLER COMPETE IN THE STATE PRELIMINARY ROUND.
THE SECTION 3-A GYMNASTICS MEET WAS HELD IN JACKSON.
WORTHINGTON WON THE MEET AND QUALIFIED FOR STATE WITH A SCORE OF 143.05. MARTIN COUNTY AREA WAS 2ND; JACKSON COUNTY CENTRAL 3RD; REDWOOD VALLEY 4TH; LUVERNE 5TH; AND WINDOM FINISHED IN 6TH PLACE WITH A SCORE OF 124.525. WINDOM’S JORDAN BUSSA WAS NAMED THE SECTION COACH OF THE YEAR. PIPESTONE FINISHED IN 7TH PLACE AND MARSHALL WAS 8TH.