Inglemoor ran away with the team title at the KingCo 4A wrestling tournament, scoring 253 points and racking up 41 wins to just 12 losses.
Inglemoor, Skyline (178 points) and Issaquah (166.5) each placed 11 wrestlers at last weekend’s meet at Juanita.
Newport finished ninth at the meet, scoring 64 points.
The Knights placed just four wrestlers in the meet. Tommy Mirante was the highest Newport placer, taking fourth in the 152-pound weight class. Mirante had a bye into the second round of the tournament and pinned Issaquah’s Cody Duke in 3:56 in round two. Mirante was pinned by Skyline’s Ian Crouch in 3:56 in the semifinals. Mirante rallied to beat Issaquah’s Taylor Evans 9-6 in the consolation bracket but lost to Duke in the third/fourth place match 6-3.
Hunter Greif (189) and Taylor Shimoji (285) both earned fifth place finishes in their respective weight classes.
Greif won his first match, an 8-5 decision over Inglemoor’s Jimmy Brejda, before being pinned by Joe Glass of Redmond in the quarterfinals. Greif pinned freshman teammate Logan McElligott in 17 seconds in his first match of the consolation bracket but was pinned by Sean McAlhaney of Skyline in his next match. Greif finished fifth after pinning Garfield’s Henry Liu in 2:10 in the fifth/sixth place match.
Shimoji finished fifth after losing his first match of the tournament in 1:06, a fall to Issaquah’s Jonathan Norris. Shimoji rattled off a win against Inglemoor’s Chris North in his first consolation match (a pin in 21 seconds), but lost to Ballard’s Marcus Johnson in the next match. He pinned Norris, his first opponent, in 1:20 to take fifth.
David Yingling finished sixth in the 103-pound weight class for Newport.
Wrestlers who placed in the top-4 move on to the Region 2 wrestling tournament at Skyline High School, a double-elimination tournament featuring wrestlers from KingCo 4A and the 4A South Puget Sound League. Fifth-place finishers from the KingCo meet must wrestle in a pigtail match at the Region 2 tournament to make it into the actual tournament itself. Sixth-place finishers serve as alternates in case of injury.
Mercer Island grapplers win 3A title
Mercer Island scored 231 points to capture the KingCo 3A team title at last weekends KingCo 3A championship tournament.
Bellevue finished fourth at the meet with 157 points, while Sammamish took seventh with 38 points.
Jun Park (130) and Connor Hudson (140) each won their respective weight classes for the Wolverines.
Park pinned all three of his opponents in under 3:40, and defeated teammate Andy Ewing in 1:10 in the final.
Hudson defeated his first two opponents, Cameron Manzano and Salvatore Giampapa, both of Mercer Island, by pins. He then beat Lake Washington’s Joel Gonzalez 8-3 to win the KingCo title.
Bellevue’s Brad Ballard (112), Ben Matteucci (125), Peter Ovens (145) and Jimmy Trull (215) all finished second. Colin Small finished third in the 152-pound weight class. Chandler Ewing finished fourth in the 135-pound weight class.
Sammamish’s highest finishers were Tomas Narvaja (152) and Paco Jacinto (171), who both finished fifth in their respective classes.
