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Comet wrestlers take to the road in weekend tournaments

Press Staff Report

The proliferation of female wrestling has granted more opportunities for student-athletes.

The Charles City girls wrestling team is currently taking advantage of these opportunities while compiling multiple match victories less than a week into the season.

After some impressive performances at a season-opening triangular in Humboldt on Thursday, the Comet girls traveled to Brooklyn on Friday for the BGM JV Boys/Girls Tournament.

Charles City was among the most represented girls squads at the tournament and had three wrestlers take first place in their respective “Pod” divisions.

Junior Lilly Luft, a returning girls state champion at 126 pounds who has moved up to 132, placed first in her division while going 3-0 with two major decisions sandwiching a fall victory.

Sophomore Ava Thompson, currently ranked in the top three among the state’s female heavyweights, went 2-0 with a pair of falls.

Alex Wright won her pod for the Comets with three fall victories.

Placing second in their pods for the Comets were Kylie Blunt, Jamaria Foster, Kaylee Hennick and Alexis Ver Meer.

Placing third in their pods for the Comets were Destiny Kolheim, Miracle Kolheim, Elizabeth Oleson and Kyia Roth.

* At the Keith Young Invitational held at Cedar Falls on Saturday, Charles City’s boys squad placed seventh out of a field of 14 with 89 team points.

Don Bosco won the meet with 250 team points.

Charles City’s resident two-time state qualifying heavyweight Chase Crooks placed second in his bracket after winning his first two bouts by way of tiebreakers, but then lost to Class 3A No. 1-ranked heavyweight Maddux Borcherding-Johnson, who pinned the Comet senior midway through the second period.

Comet senior Tino Tamayo placed third in the 220-point bracket while going 2-1 with two fall victories and a 3-1 decision loss in the semifinals.

Sophomore 145-pounders Talan Weber recorded the most victories among the Comets at Cedar Falls while going 3-2 with a pair of fall victories, good enough for sixth place in a stacked bracket.

Charles City 132-pounder Nathan Lopez went 2-2 while placing fourth in his bracket.

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