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OK - this page will try to summarize the best I can glean from TrackWrestling and Facebook.  All events were held on Saturday, November 22nd, except for the Gulf Coast Clash, which started on Friday, November 21st and ended on the 22nd.  (Note to self: think twice before trying this again.)

Griffin Open - Girls

The Lady Lions of Lafayette demolished the other 18 teams competing, outscoring runner-up Prairieville 128 to 76.  East Ascension was third with 71.5 points, followed by Dutchtown (67.5) and Live Oak (64).  Willow Dixon won her third tournament in a row, and now has a record of 10-1.  The "1" came in a dual meet against St. Amant when Dixon fell to St. Amant's Mikayla Byington.  Byington won her first tournament of the year and is undefeated at 7-0.  Winning titles for the Lady Lions were Ryleigh Blanchard and Quetzicalli Guevera-Tapia.  Nineteen teams participated.

Girls Final Matches

Lilly Johnson of Dutchtown, with Dutchtown coach Joshua Johnson, was voted the Girls OW.  Johnson pinned all three of her opponents in the 114 lbs. weight class in times of 4:55, 3:07 and 2:49.

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Griffin Open Boys

The St. Amant Gators ran away with the boys team championship, scoring 203 points.  Dutchtown finished second with 174 points, followed by Holy Cross (134), East Ascension (130) and Walker (108).  Twenty-three teams competed.  Thomas Abington and Kent Pearson won titles for the Gators.  Third-place Holy Cross had four champions out of seven Tigers entered.  They were Lee Gervais, Michael Klein, Robert Morse and Rylee Reeves. 

Walker Wildcats: 5th-place boys [Far left] St. Amant coaches Corey Brownell, Clint Brownell and Hunter Hawkins [Left]

Boys Final Matches

Live Oak's Billy Edmonston, at 215 lbs., was voted the Outstanding Wrestler.  Edmonston posted victories by falls in 3:32 and 3:10, followed by a 17-2 technical fall and a 19-7 major decision in his four matches.

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Cougar Clash Girls

Acadiana seems to have fared best at the St. Thomas More Cougar Clash.  The Lady Rams had three champions in Riley Manuel, Iselynn McCurtis and Lillian Hutto, and two runners-up in Kaylee Patton and Matty Stutes.

Girls Final Matches

Comeaux's Eden Turner placed third at 145 lbs.

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Cougar Clash - Boys

Boys Final Matches

Alex Rozas was voted the boys OW.  Rozas has never lost to Louisiana competition.  Rozas won all five of his matches by technical falls of 21-6, 24-6, 21-6, 21-6 and 17-1 in the finals.  His finals opponent was Southside's Zane Blanchard.  After a perfect freshman season of 49-0, Blanchard was 8-0 this season until his match with Rozas, who now has an undefeated record of 11-0.

Comeaux placers Joel Saucedo-Parra, Witness Lu, Jose Argenal and Parker Richard	Teurlings Catholic team

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Haughton Girls

Arkansas teams took the champion and runner-up team trophies home, but two Louisiana teams were in the top-five.  Sylvan Hills High School won the event with 139 points, 11 more than runner-up Arkansas High School with 128 points.  With 89.5 points, South Beauregard placed third, followed by Benton with 74 points and a team from Pittsburg, TX with 73 points. 

South Beauregard had two champions in Kaylee Bachelor and Sarah Cervenka.  Brusly had a pair of first-place winners in Kaitlyn Walker and Iranie Harrison, as did Benton in Caylee Brammer and Audrina Wade..

Girls Final Matches

Brusly's Kaitlyn Walker (left, with Iranie Harrison) was voted the girls Outstanding Wrestler.  Walker scored falls in 0:28, 2:56, 0:12 and 0:50, and won her finals match 18-13.

Haughton coach Cheyenne Shelton (formally Brittany Bates of Doyline) and Haughton's 2025 state champion Natalie Davis, doing a coaching dance of some sort	Natalie Davis coaching a Haughton wrestler

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Haughton Boys

With three champions and three runners-up Rayne ran roughshod over their competition, winning the 15-team event with 211.5 points.  Sixty-three points behind the Wolves were the Benton Tigers with two champions and two runners-up.  One-and-a-half points behind Benton was Rosepine, which also had two champions and two runners-up.  Byrd was fourth with 123.5 points, followed by Parkway with 120.5 points.

The winners for Rayne were Gavin Schexnaider, Jason Fulgium and Logan Henry.

Boys Finals Matches

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Bulldog Brawl

The host Fontainebleau Bulldogs won the Bulldog Brawl on Saturday with 195.5 points.  Chalmette placed second in the 15-team field with 168 points, followed by Slidell (97.5), Shaw (95.5) and St. Paul (88).

The Bulldogs had five individual champions in Dustin Smith, Braden Sellers, Nicholas Stan, Gavin Walrus and Gabriel DesBordes.  Azeem Qaiser, Charles Timmins and Anthony Berg placed second for the host team.  Chalmette, Slidell and Shaw each had two champions. 

Shaw placers

4th-place Shaw Eagles

Hahnville's Alex Cook took home the Outstanding Wrestler award.  Cook won his first two matches via falls in 0:25 and 0:50, and proceeded to dominate his finals match with a 17-0 technical fall.

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Gulf Coast Clash

Three Louisiana schools sent girls teams to the Gulf Coast Clash in Mobile, Alabama.  The Mandeville girls placed 12th out of 30 teams.  Zachary placed 19th and Lakeshore placed 30th. 

Placing for the Skippers were Aurora Avery (fourth), Glada Ruffino (fifth) and Ina De Bastos Marques (fifth).  Adia Wells placed fourth for the Broncos and her Zachary teammate Sophie Page placed 6th.  Sofia Gagliano placed fifth for Lakeshore.

On the boys side, Catholic placed fourth, Brother Martin placed sixth, Rummel placed seventh, Jesuit placed eighth and Zachary placed 19th.  Mandeville, Brusly, Covington and Episcopal also competed, but they had nobody placing in the top-three.

Three Louisiana wrestlers won the event.  Brother Martin's William Fontenot won at 113 lbs., Rummel's Dominic Durham won the 150 lbs. weight class and Catholic's two-time defending Division I state champion Kristian Scott won the 165 lbs. weight class.

Louisiana champions William Fontenot of Brother Martin, Dominic Durham of Rummel and Kristian Scott of Catholic. Durham, who was not seeded, won his first match matches via a 19-1 TF, followed by a fall in 1:50, and 11-3 major decision, a 9-7 decision and a 6-3 decision in the finals. Scott, seeded first, won his first three matches via falls in 1:43, 0:16 and 1:11.  He scored a 15-0 TF in the semifinals and then pinned his finals opponent in 1:14.

[Left] Brother Martin's William Fontenot, seeded second, secures nearfall points.  Fontenot won with technical falls of 16-0, 17-1 and 21-5, and a major decision of 8-0. [Right] Zachary's Landon Blackwell placed second at 106 lbs.

This tournament wrestles to at least 8th-place, and that is too much to try to list here.  Wrestlers who placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd are as follows:

Catholic: Kristian Scott (1st at 165), Paul Evans (3rd at 106) and Caleb Kirk (3rd at 126); Brother Martin: William Fontenot (1st at 113) and Quinn McDermott (2nd at 144); Rummel: Dominic Durham (1st at 150) and Gage Ahysen (third at 144); Jesuit: Christopher Stricker (3rd at 157); Zachary: Landon Blackwell (2nd at 106).

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Riverdale Girls Round-Robin

Riverdale had five champions and 11 place-winners which, were team scores kept, might have enabled the Lady Scottish Rebels to win a round-robin event held on Saturday.  Chalmette had three champions

Riverdale's 11 medalists

Finals Matches

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