Jochems leads Baxter wrestlers at Midland Girls Invitational

WYOMING — Madison Jochems finished third and lost to the eventual champion and Kenzie Wignall and Johnelle Gliem each won a pair of matches during the Midland Girls Invitational on Tuesday.

The Bolts scored 43 points and took 15th place in the 17-team field. Clinton won the tournament championship with 202 points.

The rest of the top five included Central DeWitt (189), West Delaware (128.5), Class 1A No. 1 Denver (126) and Cascade (110.5).

Jochems placed third at 125 pounds after a 4-1 day. She lost her opening match by fall in the third period to Clinton’s Alaina Carpenter despite leading 10-9 at the time of the pin.

Her next four matches were all wins by pin. The first three lasted 51 seconds or less and the win in the third-place match took 1 minute, 17 seconds.

Gliem was fourth at 170. She was 2-2 with two pins and one of her losses came against 2A No. 12 Liv Lonergan of Clinton.

Wignall was 2-3 at 130. She opened with a 15-12 victory and also had a win by fall but lost three times by pin, too.

Malayla Hurd also competed for the Bolts but was 0-2 at 235. Both losses came by fall.