Girls wrestling held the Pre-Regional tournaments throughout the area and Clinton County has 13 wrestlers going to the Region I tournament March 3 at Harrison High School.
The top four wrestlers in each Pre-Regional are eligible to advance to the Region 1 tournament. Wilmington has seven, Clinton-Massie three, East Clinton two and Blanchester one continuing their seasons.
At the Pre-Regional Tournament at Hamilton High School, Clinton-Massie’s Kaylee Ramsey pinned DeeLyla Grantham of New Richmond in 1:50 to win the 120-pound weight class.
Ramsey, who was a state qualifier a season ago, is now 33-4 on the year.
Clinton-Massie’s Heaven Warner (9-14) and Abigail Crouse (19-17) were both fourth place finishers — Warner at 115 pounds and Crouse at 130 pounds.
At the Pre-Regional Tournament at Western Brown High School, Blanchester and East Clinton participated. Neither team had a Pre-Regional champion but both schools advanced wrestlers to the Region 1 event.
Blanchester’s Laylla Sears (17-5) was third at 100 pounds, pinning Abby Herren of Williamsburg in 2:36 in the consolation final.
Carly Bazaldua (12-22) of EC pinned Kendall Dexter of Lakota East in 4:01 at 105 pounds to finish third. Ryleigh Burns ((3-22) finished fourth at 130 pounds.
At the Pre-Regional at Greeneview, Wilmington advanced seven wrestlers with two finishing as weight class runnersup.
Mia Skinner (32-8) was the runnerup at 105 pounds, falling in the title match to Maycee Adams of Eaton by pinfall 1:27.
Grace Keith (31-5) was second at 235 pounds. She was pinned in 3:06 by Sycamore’s Agam Lahyani in the final match.
Samantha Vaughn (14-16) was runnerup at 140 pounds, dropping the title match in 41 seconds to No. 1 seed Rita Carey of Brookville.
Ashton Lambke (4-8) was fourth at 110 pounds. Kennedy Goings (16-15) was third at 120 pounds, winning the consolation final by forfeit. Morgan Dumford (5-6) was third at 170 pounds. Larkyn Groves (11-14) finished fifth at 100 pounds.
