Sandite Junior High Wrestlers Place 3rd at Home Tournament
/Both the boys and girls wrestling teams took third place at the Sand Springs Junior High tournament on Saturday, December 2nd at Clyde Boyd Middle School.
The Gold team placed third, Black was 18th, and White was 23rd in the tournament with four total champions. Bristow won the boys’ tournament with 244 points, followed by Coweta with 241.5 and Sand Springs Gold with 193.
Union won the girls’ tournament with 221 points, followed by Perry with 160 and Sand Springs with 135. The Lady Sandites had eight finalists and three Champions.
Boys
Kasen McAffrey pinned all eight of his opponents in the first period. The 140-pound champion outscored his opponents 26 to 5, only allowing escape points.
Griffin Sensintaffar won the 86-pound bracket with four first-period falls and two technical falls, outscoring his opponents 61 to 4, only allowing escape points.
Jaxon Grigsby won the 126-pound bracket with four falls, outscoring his opponents 49 to 6.
Kaden Pope won the 132-pound bracket with six pins, outscoring his opponents 57 to 14, only allowing escape points.
Kayden Worthington went 6-1 at 140 pounds with four pins before falling in the finals to teammate Kasen McAffrey.
Corbin Wooley went 7-1 for third place at 155 pounds with four pins. His only loss was a 12-5 decision to Vinita’s Kolbe Bargas that he avenged with a first-period falls in the placement round rematch.
Hunter Fields went 5-3 with three pins for seventh place at 170. Andrew Price went 4-3 with two pins for seventh place at 106.
Kellen Foster went 3-4 with two pins for eighth place at 112. David Cline went 3-4 with three pins for eighth place at 195.
Rowdy Ash went 2-3 with one pin for 10th place at 80. Chandler Copeland went 2-3 with two pins for 10th place at 92. Lincoln Callis went 2-3 with one pin for 10th place at 98.
Sam Moore went 3-3 with two pins for 11th place at 119. Josh Compton went 3-3 for 11th place at 126. Jace Smith went 3-3 with three pins for 11th place at 285.
Jeffery Norton went 2-4 with two pins for 12th place at 106 pounds after injury forfeiting his final two matches.
Syrus Pratt went 4-3 with two pins for 13th place at 170. Caleb Childers went 3-3 with two pins for 13th place at 112.
Girls
Savannah Taylor won the 102-pound bracket, pinning all six of her opponents. Audrey Pride won the 126-pound bracket with five pins. Ayla Asher won the 138-pound bracket with five pins.
Kenzie Johnson went 6-1 at 89 pounds, pinning her first six opponents before falling to Berryhill’s Grace Halbert in the finals.
Bailey Copeland went 4-1, pinning her first four opponents at 96 pounds before falling to Union’s Raeya Perkins in the finals.
Faith Humble went 4-2 for second place at 117 with four pins. Liz Cline went 4-2 for second place at 126 with three pins. Addison Dinapoli went 3-3 for second place at 138 with two pins.
Camden Garrison went 5-2 for third place at 96 pounds, pinning four of her opponents, including Glenpool’s Alexis Morris in the consolation finals.
Cailey Miller went 6-2 for third place at 155 pounds, pinning six of her opponents in the first period.
Rylee Allen went 4-2 with three pins for fifth place at 117.
Lyla Waldren went 3-4 for sixth place at 102. Areli Martin went 3-4 with two pins for sixth place at 117.
Mia Bruns went 3-3 for seventh place at 126. Rowen Hull went 4-2 for seventh place at 138 with two pins.
