Five Trinity wrestlers grabbed individual titles and the Bulldogs were team champions in the Sarah Wilkes Invitational on Saturday in Eden.
It was the first of two tournaments in three days that at least some of the Bulldogs participated in.
Aiden Burkholder (106 pounds), Stephen Cross (113), Edgar Vasquez (126), Simeon Hammett (132) and Lawson Coltrane (165) were the champs for Trinity, which also had three runners-up.
Among 12 teams, Trinity was the champion with 198½ points, with host Eden Morehead the runner-up at 179.
Burkholder defeated Southeast Guilford’s Jacob Bone with a 56-second pin in the final. Cross edged West Stokes’ Bryan Morrison 8-7 to claim first place.
Vasquez defeated Southeast Guilford’s Kenneth Thomas 14-6 in the final. Hammett prevailed with a 12-5 decision against McMichael’s Colby Smith to win his weight classic.
Coltrane recorded four pins, including a flattening of Eden Morehead’s Ian Sutherland in 2:43 of the final. None of Coltrane’s matches reached the three-minute mark.
Trinity’s Jaden Allred was the runner-up at 138, falling 9-6 to Eden Morehead’s Elijah Horton in the title bout. Baron Justice also placed second at 150 with a 3-0 loss to Staunton River (Va)’s Lawson Ayers. Zane Schloemer (157) lost by 10-0 to Staunton River’s Josh Bumgarner in the 157 title bout. The Bulldogs had third places from Omega Edge (120), Kayden Hess (126) and Jayden Henry (144).
** In Monday’s Phillip Reed Rumble at Kernersville Glenn, Trinity placed fifth in the rescheduled tournament. The Bulldogs entered a limited lineup and had four runners-up.
Omega Edge (120) was second as he was a pin victim to Eastern Guilford’s Tremayne McNeely in the second period of the final. At 126, Vasquez lost by a pin with three seconds remaining to Davie County’s Cayden Glass.
Zane Schloemer was the 150 runner-up, upended by a technical fall against West Forsyth’s Josh Spontak in the title bout. Heavyweight Joseph Trahan was pinned by Davie County’s Ryder Strickland in the third period of the finals match.
Jayden Henry of the Bulldogs placed fourth at 138.
On the girls’ side, Bliss Joyce and Briana Joyce of Trinity were champions.
Bliss Joyce won at 138 with a pin of Jadyn Magallanes of West Forsyth in 1:07 of the final. Briana Joyce claimed the 235 title with a pin of Elienai Munoz-Martinez of West Forsyth in 3:30.
Trinity’s Layla Vasquez was runner-up at 126, suffering a first-period pin to Southeast Guilford’s Mia Cartwright. Daniella Hernandez of Trinity was fourth at 138.
Jets Invitational
At Siler City, two Eastern Randolph wrestlers and one from Providence Grove won individual titles in the tournament held at Jordan-Matthews
Eastern Randolph’s David Lambright captured the 126 final with a 14-8 decision against Louisburg’s Braulio Nolasco Rayo. Lambright won all three of his matches by decisions.
At 285, Maddox Carson of Eastern Randolph was a victor in the title bout with a pin of Jordan-Matthews’ Kaleb Moffitt in 3:52. It was Carson’s third pin of the tournament, with the other team early in the second periods.
Providence Grove 157-pounder Mitchell Freeman pinned North Moore’s Ram Lian at 2:16 of the final. Freeman had a pin and a major decision to reach the title bout.
Central Davidson won the 14-team tournament with 244½ points, while Eastern Randolph was runner-up with 176 and Asheboro placed third with 114. Providence Grove’s 98½ points were good for fifth place.
Runners-up from Randolph County were Providence Grove’s Jeremiah Payne (106) and Jeremiah Duffy (144), Eastern Randolph’s Joshua Watson (113) and Christian Cabeza (215) and Asheboro’s Bearik Bigelow (132).
Third-place spots went to Asheboro’s Omar Basyouny (106) and Oscar Zelaya (126) and Eastern Randolph’s Lucas Kennedy (120), Jamie Crabtree (138) and Trevor Young (144).
Tiger Duals
Saturday at Mount Pleasant, Wheatmore went 2-1, defeating Cary by 50-20 and host Mount Pleasant by 44-35 and falling by 52-27 to Mallard Creek.
Nolan Hammonds, Spencer Moore, Dominic Hittepole and Noah Browning all went 3-0 for the Warriors.
