BATTLE CREEK – With the varsity wrestling program set to open their season on Thursday, the Wayne Junior High wrestlers took to the mat for their second to last competition.
From Battle Creek, the Blue Devils put eight on the mat and returned with a handful of medals.
As a team, Wayne placed sixth out of 16 teams with 79 points.
Eighth-grader Lakin Stange (181) posted a first place finish after going 3-0 while runner-up performance came from eighth-grader Grant Maas (125) going 3-1 as well as seventh-grader Emmanuel Gonzalez (71) going 1-1. Eighth-grader Carter Wiese (250) went 4-1 to place third and seventh-grader Maddox Ziska (260) went 4-2 to finish fourth. Other wrestlers in action were seventh-graders Thomas Raymundo (120) and Josuah Zavala (135) who both went 1-2 as seventh-grader Alejandro Archundia (90) went 0-2.
Hartington Cedar Catholic won the Junior High event with 166 points, followed by Pierce in runner-up with 150 points, Howells-Dodge placed third with 146 points, Norfolk took fourth with 144 points and Plainview rounded out the top five teams with 128 points.
The Wayne Junior High wrestlers will close out their season during the Schuyler Invite on Saturday, December 4 starting at 8:30 a.m.
Also, Wayne High School will be honoring the wrestling team and the unified bowling team and their parents on Thursday. Parents of the unified bowling team should be at the Wayne High school gym by 5:45 p.m. as they will be introduced at 5:48 p.m. and parents of the wrestlers should be at the gym by 6:00 p.m. as they will be introduced between the matches. Wayne High will be hosting Summerland & Wisner-Pilger during a wrestling triangular Thursday evening in Wayne.
