Lady wrestlers take ninth at McCook with only five wrestlers

    Despite only having five wrestlers filling weights in McCook Thursday, the Lady Longhorns placed in the middle of the pack and brought home two first place finishes.
    Lizbit Mereles wrestled in the 120c bracket. Mereles pinned both opponents, one from Grant and the other from Ogallala to take first place.
    Haley Rusher was the other champion in McCook after she defeated her two opponents from Goodland and McCook.
    Neveah Martin’s division in the 105b bracket only had two competitors so she wrestled the same girl twice. Unfortunately Martin came up against a very strong Ariel Ehlers of Colby and lost both matches.
    Iris Robles wrestled in the 125b division, losing both her matches by pinfall.
    Brooke Schilke rounded out the team wrestling in the 155 bracket. Schilke won one and lost two at the tournament.
McCook results
105b Nevaeh Martin—pinned by Ariel Ehlers (Col) 3:38, lost by major decision to Ariel Ehlers (Col) 6-16 for second place.
120c Lizbit Mireles----pinned Emry McGreer (PC) 0:28, pinned Alexis Gerih (Og) 0:50 for first place.
125b Iris Robles----pinned by Joselyn McCain (RC) 3:00, pinned by Kaitlyn Freilberg (Og) 0:32 for third place
155 Brooke Schilke----pinned by Mariah Duran (San) 0:44, won by injury default over Caylee O’Brien (NP), pinned by Lake McClure (Og) 2:43 for third place.
155b Haley Rusher----pinned Danika Corke (Good) 1:03, won by major decision over Meka Daub (MC) 13-2 for first place.
Team scores: 1. Colby 113.5, 2. Ogallala 70, 3. Southwest 69, 4. Sandhills 58, 5. North Platte 51, 6. Wray 36, 7. Goodland 35, 8. Rawlins County 29, 9. Chase County 26, 10. McCook 18, 11. Decatar Community 14, 12. Paxton 9, 13. Perkins County 8, 14. Southern Valley 4..
Next action:
    The Lady Longhorns will travel Saturday, Dec. 16 to the Bridgeport/Sidney Invite.