The LFL/SE girls' wrestling team garnered sixth place at Gering following a victory against Burns-Pine Bluffs.
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LINGLE – A strong weekend for the combined Lingle-Fort Laramie/Southeast (LFL/SE) girls wrestling team opened with a 30-24 victory against Burns-Pine Bluffs in a dual before the home crowd in Lingle on Thursday, January 16.
LFL/SE followed its success up with a solid showing at the annual Gering girls’ invitational on Saturday. LFL/SE progressed to sixth place on the team leaderboard in a field of 14 schools, posting 63.5 points.
Junior Kennedi Blevins set the pace for LFL/SE at Gering, capturing gold in the 110-pound bracket.
“It was great to see our teams come out on top with a dual victory (against Burns-Pine Bluffs),” coach Brandon Gifford said. “I thought both our boys and girls wrestled well and we won the matches we needed to win. Kennedi Blevins was outstanding getting a championship this weekend (in Gering). She has turned the corner moving forward in the right direction heading into February. We have a tough three-week stretch coming up where we need to not only fix some positional pieces but also need to begin our phase of getting ready to peak come regionals and state.”
Burns-Pine Bluffs dual
Sophomore Trinity Martin scored the first win for LFL/SE against Burns-Pine Bluffs in the 155-pound match. Martin pinned Isabell Osterman 37 seconds into the bout to tally six team points.
In the 120-pound match, senior Andrea Valenza battled Gracee Taylor into the second period before Valenza won by fall at 3 minutes, 3 seconds.
Junior Kaiten Schilreff won the 135-pound match, pinning Kaitlyn Schnell midway into the second period.
Freshman Abbey Boyd (100 pounds) and Blevins both won by open forfeit.
Gering invite
Blevins progressed to the quarterfinals at 110 pounds where she felled Scottsbluff’s Ava Hernandez with 13 seconds remaining in the first period.
In the semifinals, Blevins pinned Daycin Gibson of Alliance only 42 seconds into the match.
The first-place match pitted Blevins against North Platte’s Jade Stockton. Blevins won by fall 1:38 into the second period to bag gold.
Two LFL/SE wrestlers clinched third place in Gering. Schilreff moved to third place on the leaderboard in the 135-pound division while junior Lilley Lawrence placed third in the 140-pound weight bracket.
Valenza secured fourth place at 120 pounds. Fifth-place finishes included Boyd in the 100-pound classification and Martin at 145 pounds.
