April 25, 2024

CMB finishes 6th, PCM 10th at North Polk Invite

By Troy Hyde

At right, Lynnville-Sully’s Marissa Vos (42) blocks the path to the basket for Sigourney’s Autumn Barthelman (21) in Friday’s game at Sully. (Jocelyn Sheets)

ALLEMAN — Both Collins-Maxwell/Baxter and Prairie City-Monroe had mixed results at the North Polk Invitational on Saturday.

The Raiders left six weights open but got three runner-up finishes in placing sixth overall, while the Mustangs went without seven weights but claimed an individual title in taking 10th place.

Jake Hennick (126), Logan Mitchell (195) and Charles Robertson (220) all finished second in their respective weight classes and helped the Raiders log 110 points. Ethan Cozad (138) finished in third, while Archer McFadden (285) ended up in fourth.

PCM’s Tristan Clark continued his undefeated run with two more wins and an individual title at 126. He recorded two pins on the day and defeated Hennick in the final to improve to 17-0 on the year. Hennick’s (12-2) only two losses this season have come against Clark.

Other Mustang finishes included Jaret Maggard’s fourth-place finish at 182.

PCM heavyweight Trent Malone beat McFadden, 5-3, in the opening round, but Malone went on to finish the day 1-3 and finished in sixth. McFadden went 2-2 in claiming fourth.

Mitchell had two pins on the day for the Raiders. His only loss came in the finals where he was beaten 4-3 by BCLUW-South Hardin’s Blake Cooper.

Robertson also had two pins at 220 but ended up as the runner-up after getting pinned in the championship match by Panorama’s Wilson Solorzano.

CMB also got fifth-place finishes from Evan Bianchi at 145, Jared Warne at 170 and Blake Coughenour at 182. Bianchi won twice on the day, while Warne and Coughenour both went 1-2.

Maggard’s first of two wins came against Coughenour in the opening round. He pinned the CMB sophomore late in the second round.

Both schools were open at 113, 120, 152 and 160. CMB also did not wrestlers at 106 or 132, while PCM was open at 138, 170 and 220.

Woodward-Granger was the team champion with 155 points. The Hawks edged second place Panorama (151.5), while Carlisle (141), Forest City (137.5) and Boone (136) rounded out the top five. Hudson, BCLUW-SH and Clarke followed CMB in seventh, eighth and ninth and host North Polk was 11th. PCM scored 49 points in 10th.