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Palo Alto placed fourth at the Bay Area 56 boys wrestling tournament in Castro Valley with 91 1/2 points as freshman Cade Creighton won an individual title at 153 pounds.
Doh Suzuki and Dash Lee each recorded a runner-up finish at the Webber Lawson wrestling tournament on Saturday at Fremont High in Sunnyvale, helping Gunn finish fifth in the 42-team tournament.
Creighton edged San Ramon’s Casey Cox, 8-6, for the title. Also for the Vikings, Halo Lynch reached reached the championship match at 146 pounds, where he was pinned in 4:57.
Dara Heydarpour won his third-place match at 139 pounds with a 9-0 major decision and Adar Schwarzbach placed sixth for Paly while Aidan Gans was fourth and Macguire Ferrell sixth at 183 pounds.
Tim Waymouth placed fourth at 145 pounds and Armin Abolhassani placed seventh for the Titans, who compete at the Nick Buzolich Classic at Lincoln High in San Jose on Saturday.
Sophomore Calvin Cai went 2-2 with a pair of pins for Gunn while freshman Justin Lin, in his varsity debut, also won a bout at 113 pounds.
Suzuki recorded a pair of victories at 138 over top 10 ranked opponents en route to reaching the final, where he fell to Evergreen Valley’s second-ranked Christian Antonio. Suzuki downed league rivals Brandon Bulatao of Fremont, ranked ninth, and Monta Vista’s eighth-ranked Peter Heydinger.
Lee recorded a pair of pins and a major decision to earn a spot in the championship match at 182. Evergreen Valley’s Josh Ballestreros, who placed fifth at 220 pounds in last year’s Central Coast Section tournament, beat Lee for the title.
Waymouth’s only two losses were to third-ranked Nick Melendez of Branham and Fremont’s second-ranked James Ost. He beat his first two opponents by pins.
Abolhassani earned his first varsity medal, recording a 3-2 mark on the day at 170 pounds.
For Menlo-Atherton, Joshua Meyers placed sixth at 132 pounds and Nicky Wong was sixth at 170.
Girls wrestling
Evelyn Calhoon and Abby Ericson each won individual titles and Menlo-Atherton placed third overall with 103 points in Saturday’s Roger Briones Invitational Tournament at San Leandro High. The Bears were honored with the “Best Team Sportsmanship Award” by a vote of the tournament referees.
Albany won the team title with 177 1/.2 points, followed by Castro Valley with 113 points.
Calhoon won all four of her matches by pin and earned 30 team points while Ericson went 2-0, with one pin, and totaled 27 team points. She also earned the tournament’s “Most Outstanding Wrestling” award.
Seniors Paola Ramirez (two pins) and Angie Bautista each finished fourth for M-A, which travels to the Queen of the Hill Tournament in Corona just after Christmas.
Anna Smith placed 6th, sophomore Hannah Hendrickson recorded a pin and senior Lauren Fuller also wrestled for the Bears.
Calhoon pinned Newark Memorial’s Christina Craig in 1:30 of the championship match. Fuller reached the consolation championship match, losing 2-0.
Senior Ashley Wang won her second tournament title in as many weeks and Palo Alto placed seventh at the Rose Garden Rumble in San Jose, scoring 64 points. Evergreen Valley won the title with 149 points.
Wang pinned Alisal’s Citlalli Alvarez at 1:55 in the championship match. Paly’s Alexandra Lee also reached the championship match, where she was pinned by Lincoln’s Julianna Moreno.
By Palo Alto Online Sports
By Palo Alto Online Sports
By Palo Alto Online Sports
Very impressive weekend for Paly Boys JV as well
3 4th place medals and a 1st place gold.
Wow on the coaches, 3 locations, 7am to 8pm this weekend.
Lotta unappreciated effort. Why you Coaches make the big bucks.
Oh wait, never mind.
Freshman 152lb winner at a strong tournament. Huge folks. Usually
at that weight, very experienced 2-4yr varsity wrestlers…..
Congrats to the Palo Alto High wrestling program.
Lots of medals this weekend.
@ Palo Alto Online Sports
So, the headline speaks to “Three girls win wrestling titles…” but the action shot appears to depict just one of the male wrestlers. Coverage of the girl’s matches was called out “Girls wrestling” half-way down the article while the lead went to “Palo Alto wrestling…” in reference to a wrestler who is male. Why no action shots of girls’ wrestling?
Can’t wrestling be wrestling, without the gender call-out/pronouns?
with respect,
GB
@GB,
You write, “Can’t wrestling be wrestling, without the gender call-out/pronouns?” But in the sentence prior you ask, “Why no action shots of girls’ wrestling?”
Last year there was a diatribe written by a female wrestler’s parent complaining of no coverage of girls wrestling. They get coverage and now there are complaints for giving girls coverage.
Just as there is boys basketball and girls basketball, there is girls wrestling and boys wrestling. It actually shows progress that they can make a distinction between the two with the growth of girls wrestling.
As for the action shots of girls, most of those action shots are submitted by parents. PAO is always happy to get photos and information from those that attend these tournaments. Makes their jobs much easier.
And that very solid, successful girl wrestler did not
come back this season.
IMO, because another parent TOO involved in their child’s activities.
Stay in the stands, support the team, and your wrestler I say.
Let the coaches do their job.
Palo Alto High top to bottom past 40yrs has been blessed with
outstanding and dedicated coaching.
From paid professional coach, to the all willing, contributing volunteers…
Go Vikings…
Are there any girls currently competing in the 285 lb. weight category?
I would imagine that some would win by default, thus qualifying for a block letter by simply showing up for a match.
In the higher weight ranges, would it be feasible to have coed-wrestling to eliminate this possibility?
@Coed Wrestling: That’s a fairly extreme hypothetical. To begin with, girls don’t have a 285lb heavyweight category. The top weight for females is 235lbs. Any female between 189lbs and 235lbs will find plenty of competition at the local tournaments, and CCS, though not as much in the league.
The number of females that 1) weigh more than 220 to qualify for the boys heavyweight category 2) are willing to go through grueling 2-3 hour practices 6 days a week, and 3) are willing to go up against a 220lb+ male in order to receive a block letter, is extremely small.
In fact, I don’t know of any students that participate in sports in order to get a letter.