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| LHSAA State
Wrestling Tournament |
| Division I - 220
Pounds |
| August 20th, 2023| Written by:
Staff Writer |
| Place |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
5th |
6th |
| Podium |
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| Name |
Blayden Laidlaw |
Gage Kelly |
Eli Latilois |
Blair Rousseau |
Evan Huling |
Griffin Ellis |
| School |
Sulphur |
Live Oak |
Baton Rouge |
Catholic |
Brother Martin |
Jesuit |
| Seed |
3 |
5 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
2 |
| Record |
23-1 |
28-7 |
31-2 |
18-5 |
43-7 |
26-5 |
| Class |
12 |
11 |
12 |
11 |
12 |
10 |
Third-seeded Blayden Laidlaw of Sulphur avenged his only loss of the season
in the semifinals when he caught Jesuit's second-seeded Griffin Ellis on his
back and scored a fall in 0:51. Ellis have given Laidlaw his sole loss of
his senior season with an 8-6 Louisiana Classic finals match. Aside from
his runner-up LACL finish, between winning the Ronnie Suarez tournament and the
Jesse James Southwest Shootout, Laidlaw won a local dual meet match but also
went 7-4 at the Beast of the East in Delaware and the Cy-Fair ISD tournament in
Texas. He was seeded third, with Ellis seeded second, because Baton
Rouge's Eli Latitois was ill during the LACL and was undefeated come the state
championships.
Live Oak junior Gage Kelly had lost to Latitois twice, as well as to Laidlaw
in the LACL, St. Amant's Ian Turner, Catholic's Blair Rousseau and Dunham's
James Baldwin. He did win the Griffin Open and the Distract 5-5A
Championships. Kelly was seeded fifth, but his loss to fourth-seeded
Rousseau was a 3-1 SV affair, and while Latilois pinned Kelly in the Greater
Baton Rouge Championships, their first match, a dual meet on January 7th, was a
6-4 match. Kelly started the top half of his bracket slowly with a 5-0 win
in Round One, but then scored a fall in 4:34, another fall in 4:34 over
fourth-seeded Rousseau, and the gutted-out a 6-4 SV match in the semifinals
against Latilois.
Kelly was only behind 2-1 after the first two minutes of the finals against
Laidlaw. That was a point better than his LACL quarterfinals match , but
the result was the same. At the LACL Laidlaw scored a fall in 3:42.
This time the Sulphur senior pinned the Eagle junior in 3:21.
Early Championship Rounds
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R1: (8) Gideon Bowman (DST) pinned Connor Booty (CNT) in 2:57 |
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| R2: (3) Blayden Laidlaw (SUL) pinned Joey
Juneau (AIR) in 2:55 |
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Quarterfinals
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(1) Eli Latitois (BR) pinned Kenneth Flores (BNT) in 3:01 |
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| (5) Gage Kelley (LO) pinned (4) Blair Rousseau
(CAT) in 4:32 |
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(3) Blayden Laidlaw (SUL) defeated (6) Evan Huling (BM) 7-2 |
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(2) Perry Ellis (JES) defeated Ian Turner 10-6 |
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Semifinals
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(5) Gage Kelly (LO) defeated (1) Eli Latilois 6-4 SV |
| (3) Blayden Laidlaw (SUL) pinned (2) Perry
Ellis (JES) in 0:51 |
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Consolation Rounds
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C2: Grady Stutzman (EA) pinned Victor Garcia (JE) 0:44 |
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Championship Consolation Rounds
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(1) Eli Latitois (BR) defeated (4) Blair Rousseau (CAT) 5-4
to place 3rd |
| (6) Evan Huling (BM) defeated (2) Perry
Ellis (JES) 10-3 to place 5th |
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Finals
| (1) Blayden Laidlaw of Sulphur pinned (5) Gage
Kelly of Live Oak in 3:21 |
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