High School Wrestling: Canon-Mac girls wrestling wins Butler Tournament
In one of the final major events before the WPIAL Championships, Canon-McMillan had two individual champions and won the team title by 43.5 points Saturday at Butler.
Marlee Solomon (124) and Evangeline Gray (148) won a title for the Big Macs.
Solomon won by fall over Pine-Richland’s Aariona Strader in her final and Gray pinned New Castle’s Kaylee Flowers.
Peters Township’s Liliana Giulianelli made the 190-pound final, but dropped a 7-3 decision to Plum’s Alaina Claassen.
Boys wrestling
Belle Vernon’s Elijah Brown won the 215 pound title at the Fred Bell Tournament at Grove City High School.
Brown earned a 4-0 decision over Kiski Area’s Cooper Roscosky.
Kole Doppenhauer (189 pounds) also made a championship match for the Leopards, but lost by tech. fall to Grove City’s Cody Hamilton.
Two other local wrestlers were runners-up.
McGuffey’s Emmett Wolfe dropped a close 9-8 decision to Moon’s Cael Yanek in the 133-pound final and Fort Cherry’s Braedon Welsh (189) lost a 13-0 major decision to Kiski Area’s Mark Gray.
Beth-Center had a pair of champions at the Thomas Chevrolet Tournament at Bedford.
Mason Wright earned a 10-3 decision in the 133-pound championship and Malachi Peak (189) defeated Line Mountain’s Maxim Johnson in a 4-3 decision.
West Greene’s Colin Whyte made the heavyweight final, but lost a 7-0 decision to Somerset’s Rowan Holmes.