CPHS Wrestling: Sandites in 4th at Regionals with eight in placement round

The Charles Page High School Wrestling team is sitting in fourth place after the third session of the Class 6A East Regional Championship in Broken Arrow. The Sandites are 20-21 in individual matches with two in the Championship finals, three in the Consolation finals, and three wrestling for fifth place.  

Freshman standout Mitchell Smith pinned Bixby freshman Cody Kaiser in 1:32 and Deer Creek sophomore Michael Fredrickson in 4:55, then won a 5-0 decision against Stillwater sophomore Gabe Fontanez. He will wrestle top-seeded Broken Arrow sophomore Parker Witcraft in the 113 Championship finals. 

Josh Fincannon pinned Northwest Classen junior George Allen in 55 seconds and won a 14-3 major decision against Bixby junior Isaac Gibson in the 220 semis. He will wrestle Jenks junior Hayden Crawley for the title. 

Seth Jones pinned Union freshman Andre Boyd in 38 seconds but lost 14-10 to Broken Arrow senior Jackson Cockrell at 126. In consolation he won 5-1 against Bixby Sophomore Garrett Washington. He will take on Owasso sophomore EJ Tecson in the third place match. 

Blake Jones won an 11-0 major decision against Enid sophomore Trinit Zweifel but fell 1-0 to top-seeded Broken Arrow junior Jared Hill in the 138 semis. In consolation he pinned Chris Dugger in 3:14. He will take on Jenks senior Branden Elrod in the third place match. 

Chris Kirby pinned Northwest Classen senior Levi Wilson in 21 seconds and Deer Creek senior Tim Trigg in 53 seconds at 160 pounds but fell 17-8 to top-seeded Enid sophomore Chance Davis in the semis. In consolation he won 7-3 against Tye Rozell. He will wrestle Owasso senior Nate Jacobson for third place. 

Preston Medlin lost a 6-4 decision to Muskogee sophomore Bobby Felts but won 7-2 against Ponca City junior Shayden Trant and 7-3 against Sapulpa junior Luke Young before falling to Stillwater sophomore Dax Hughes in the 145 consolation semis. He will take on Enid sophomore Daigen Gibbens in the fifth place match. 

Brooks Dudley pinned Muskogee’s Ty’Vonte Williams in 2:42 but was then pinned by Ponca City’s Landon Newlin in the 182 quarterfinals. He pinned Union junior Shane Fields in 1:34 and Stillwater senior Eli Wilson in 0:54 in consolation before falling to Jenks senior Garrett Weis. He will face Enid freshman Carlos Alvarado for fifth place. 

Sango Whitehorn was pinned by top-seeded Broken Arrow junior Emmanuel Skillings in the 195 quarterfinals. In consolation he pinned Enid junior Luis Vega in 5:07 before falling to Jenks senior Ethan Felts. He will take on Bixby sophomore Brad Neasby in the fifth place match. 

Shane Wolf went 0-2 at 106. He was pinned by Ponca City freshman Preston Lee and lost an 11-1 major decision to Owasso sophomore Zeke Wheeler in consolation. 

Harley Newberry went 1-2 at 120. He was pinned by top-seeded Broken Arrow senior Bryce Cockrell and by Jenks junior Garrett Rawlins, but pinned Enid freshman Donterriou Covington in 1:19. 

Carter Goodman lost a 5-2 decision to Ponca City freshman Gabriel Roland and a 10-3 decision to Owasso senior Killian McNichol at 132. 

Ethan White was pinned by Broken Arrow senior William Martin in the first round of 152 then fell 4-2 to Midwest City junior Jamie Watts in consolation. 

Codey Cramer went 0-2 in his varsity debut at 170 pounds with pin losses to top-seeded Broken Arrow senior Bryce Mattioda and Ponca City freshman Joe Leavitt. 

Santana Naugle went 1-2 at heavyweight. He won a 3-2 decision against Ponca City junior HB Bowers but was pinned by top-seeded Union senior Micah Walker in the quarterfinals and lost a 7-4 decision to Owasso freshman Tyler Rich in consolation. 

Former Sandites Christian Forbes (Broken Arrow) and Carter Young (Stillwater) both advanced to the Championship finals. 

Broken Arrow has the team title all locked down with 267 points and Jenks is a distant second with 158.5. Stillwater is third with 155 followed by Sand Springs at 121 and Deer Creek with 115. 

All placement matches will be held Saturday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in Tiger Field House on the campus of Broken Arrow High School. 

The top five wrestlers in each bracket will advance to the State Tournament with the sixth-place medalist as an alternate. The top three will advance to the double-elimination bracket outright while the fourth and fifth placers will wrestle a single elimination round to start. State will be held at Jim Norrick arena next weekend at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City.