Local Sports: Jefferson captures tourney title with just nine wrestlers

GRASS LAKE – Jefferson’s wrestling team wasn’t expecting to win Saturday when it traveled to Grass Lake.

The Bears could only fill 9 of the 14 weight classes because of injury and illness but still were able to bring home the championship trophy with 189 points. Laingsburg was second with 172.5, Monroe fifth with 133.5 and St. Mary Catholic Central 16th with 22.

“I was a little surprised,” Jefferson coach Mike Humphrey. “All the kids got good matches today. It was just a good day.”

Expectations started to change as the day went on.

“We had a really good first round and second round,” Humphrey said. “Then they started paying attention to the team score. They said, ‘Hey, we can win this thing.’ They started talking about getting bonus points.”

Isaac Masserant (103), Cody Richards (112) and Noah White (140) were Jefferson’s champions and Caleb Smiley (135) placed second.

All nine Bears finished in the top five as Dylan Garcia (130), Nathan Masserant (215) and Seth Minney (160) all finished third, and Fred Martin (285) and Martre Pearson (152) fifth.

“It was a good day to get some wins and heal some wounds,” Humphrey said. “None of our wrestlers that we entered lost more than one match today.”

Tim Murphy (140) took second for Monroe and teammates Damien Jones (135), Tommy Honeycutt (145), Brock Graves (152) and Adrian Rincon (285) all were third. The Trojans also got a fourth from Angel Rincon (160) and sixths from Evan Zavala (119) and Zach Graves (130).

MaryAlice Lynch (103) took fourth for SMCC.

Rams’ Williams reigns

LESLIE – Brayden Williams won the 189-pound championship as Flat Rock finished seventh Saturday in the Leslie Blackhawk Invitational.

The Rams had 99 points. New Lothrop won the 17-team event with 238.

Other Flat Rock finishers were Andrew Given (second at 145), Joe Siniarski (fourth at 285), Brendan Adams (sixth at 140) and Walter Mack (sixth at 152).

Boerst, Denker go 5-0

OREGON, Ohio – Tyler Boerst (150) and Rollie Denker (157) each went 5-0 as Bedford went 4-1 in Saturday’s Clay Duals.

The Mules beat Madison 59-16, Clay 36-35, Firelands 57-21 and Avon 52-22, but fell to Marysville 33-28.

Noah Benore (132) and Robbie Gossard (215) were each 4-1 on the day.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Bedford on even keel

TEMPERANCE – Bedford was on an even keel Saturday.

The Mules were outscored 23-15 in the odd numbered quarters, but dominated the second and fourth periods to knock off Sylvania Southview 41-31 Saturday.

Bedford allowed just 4 points each in the second and fourth quarters. It wiped out a 13-10 first-quarter deficit by winning the second 13-4 and pulled away in the fourth after leading by a single point after three.

A pair of freshmen led the 9-2 Mules. Aubrey Hensley scored 13 points and Nyah Mullins added 9.

“Our freshmen really played a great game for us,” Bedford coach Bill Ryan said. “We were struggling in the first quarter and we put four freshmen and a sophomore out there and they made up ground and got us back in a good place.”

Bedford ; 10 ; 13 ; 5 ; 13 ; - ; 41

Southview ; 13 ; 4 ; 10 ; 4 ; - ; 31

BEDFORD: V. Gray 4 0-0 8, Ryan 0 4-4 4, Hensley 1 (1) 0-0 3, Behnke 5 (1) 2-2 13, Mullins 3 (1) 1-1 8, S. Gray 2 1-4 5. Totals 15 (3) 8-11 41.

SYLVANIA SOUTHVIEW: Bourbeau 2 0-0 4, Brown 2 0-0 4, Ferguson 3 (3) 0-0 9, Williams 3 1-2 7, Kassem 3 1-2 7. Totals 21 (1) 2-4 31.

Whiteford starts fast

OTTAWA LAKE – Whiteford raced out to a 31-10 halftime lead on the way to a 57-35 victory over Toledo Cardinal Stritch Saturday.

Seniors Kinzie Kohler and Zoe Bauman led the way with 10 and 9 points, respectively.

The Bobcats improved to 3-11 after going 2-1 this week.

Whiteford ; 14 ; 17 ; 16 ; 10 ; - ; 57

Stritch ; 6 ; 4 ; 16 ; 9 ; - ; 35

WHITEFORD: Alexander 0 2-2 2, Thomas 3 3-5 9, VanBrandt 3 0-1 6, Schober 2 (1) 0-0 5, Rasor 0 5-8 5, Gapp 1 0-2 2, Bauman 5 0-0 10, Hillard 2 3-6 7, Kohler 4 3-9 11. Totals 20 (1) 16-33 41.

TOLEDO CARDINAL STRITCH: Hughes, Garmon 4 (2) 2-4 12, Catillo 3 (3) 1-4 10, Price 0 1-4 1, Hugill 1 0-0 2, Quiroga 1 0-0 2. Totals 12 (7) 4-13 35.

Ida drops defensive battle

ADRIAN – Defense was the order of the day as neither team reached double-digit scoring in any quarter.

Ida trailed 7-3 after one quarter, 12-8 at halftime and 18-14 at the end of three quarters.

Grace Capling scored 7 points to lead the 5-8 Blue Streaks.

Madison ; 7 ; 5 ; 6 ; 9 ; - ; 27

Ida ; 3 ; 5 ; 6 ; 8 ; - ; 22

ADRIAN MADISON: Parish 0 0-3 0, McDonald 2 2-4 6, McCarty 2 (1) 0-0 5, Patterson 2 (1) 1-2 6, Palpant 3 0-0 6, Russell 1 2-2 4. Totals 10 5-11 27.

IDA: Hovest 1 (1) 0-2 3, Schrader 1 (1) 2-4 5, Capling 2 (2) 1-3 7, Albring 2 0-0 4, LaRoy 1 1-2 3. Totals 7 (4) 4-11 22.

PREP HOCKEY

Brodie sparks win

SOUTHGATE – Aidan Brodie racked up three goals and two assists to lead Monroe-Southgate to a 9-5 win over Ann Arbor Huron-Milan Saturday.

Other leaders for 9-10 Monroe-Southgate were Ashton Petrarca (1 goal, 4 assists), Gabe Obourn (3 goals, 1 assist), Marcus King (1 goal, 2 assists), Josh Calhoun (1 goal, 1 assist), Garrett LeBeau (2 assists), and Christian Koska-Lombardo (1 assist). Kyle Sutherland was strong in goal.

JUNIOR HIGH SWIMMING

Lay leads Monroe

BATTLE CREEK – Jayce Hay was seventh in the 200-yard freestyle with a personal-best time of 2:12.10 and 13th in the 100 freestyle with a personal-best 1:00.51 to highlight Monroe’s performance in the MISCA Middle School Championships Saturday.

Sophia Smith also placed twice with two personal-best times (eighth in the 50 freestyle at :27.40 and 15th in the 100 freestyle at 1:03.17). Josh Riggs was 18th in the 50 freestyle with a personal-best :27.32.

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