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Camous in the 125 finals. Flores also won Cadet Nationals in Fargo. JUNIOR WOMEN’S DUALS
A strong team from California won the championship at the Junior Nationals Women’s Duals.
California earned the title after earning a 29-26 win over a tough Texas team in the final dual.
Hendey led the way by pinning a pair of Junior Nationals champions in the dual-meet format.
Hendey pinned fellow Junior Nationals champions Rosemary Flores of New York and Hannah Moon of Washington in the dual-meet competition.
Flores moved up to 130 to face Hendey after winning the 125 Junior Nationals title. Hendey moved up a weight class to battle Moon, who won Junior Nationals at 139.
California has now won this event in four of the six years it has been contest- ed. Texas won the other two titles. California A defeated Washington 29- 26 in the second dual of the champi- onship round. Texas A downed Washington 29-22 in the first dual of the championship round. Texas led 24-22 over Washington entering the final match at 198 pounds. Junior Nationals champion Miriam Moreno recorded a pin at 198 to clinch the win. Texas received a key win in the dual
when Ana McAleavey knocked off Moon 1-1, 0-2, 2-2 at 139. McAleavey placed fifth in the Junior Nationals competition at 130 on Tuesday before moving up a class to upset Moon on Wednesday. The Junior Women’s Duals returned to Fargo this year after a one-year absence. CADET FREESTYLE
Volk captured a Triple Crown in dra- matic fashion when he notched a first- period fall to win a Cadet Nationals freestyle title. Volk trailed 2-0 early in his 91-pound finals bout against Miguel Silva of Illinois before locking Silva in a near-side cradle and recording the pin with seven seconds left in the first period. Oregon’s Ronnie Bresser fell just short in his bid for a Triple Crown after drop- ping a decision to Cadet Folkstyle Nationals champion Tommy Thorn of Minnesota in the 105 finals. Thorn won the match 7-0, 3-1.
Bresser bumped up to 105 for freestyle
after capturing Cadet Folkstyle and Greco titles at 98.
Illinois won the team title with Pennsylvania finishing second and Minnesota third.
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Missouri’s Emily Webster captured her third straight Junior Nationals women’s freestyle title in Fargo, N.D. She won at 97 pounds. John Sachs photo.
Pennsylvania’s Chance Marsteller (152) repeated as Cadet Nationals freestyle champion after making quick work of Kelian Torres of Oklahoma 6-0, 7- 0 in the finals. Marsteller, 16, also won Cadet Nationals in Greco. 2010 Cadet Triple Crown winner Mitch Sliga of Indiana (189) became a Fargo double champion for the second straight year when he defeated Cadet Nationals Folkstyle champion Jordan Ellingwood of Illinois 4-0, 1-0 in the freestyle finals. 2011 Cadet Nationals Folkstyle cham- pion Jabari Moody of Illinois dropped the first period before coming back to record a second-period fall over Pennsylvania’s Luke Karam in the 84 finals. Moody placed second in the Cadet Greco com- petition.
Cadet Folkstyle Nationals champion Zach Beard of Oklahoma captured a Cadet Nationals freestyle title when he swept Iowa’s Dustin Fuller 6-0, 7-0 in the 160 finals.
Cadet Nationals Greco champion Sam
Stoll of Minnesota added a Cadet Nationals freestyle title when he swept Chet Spears of Oregon 4-3, 4-2 in the 285 finals. California’s Aaron Pico became a Fargo double champion after downing Oklahoma’s Gary Wayne Harding 4-0, 8-
2 in the 119 finals. Idaho’s Hayden Tuma looked dominant in sweeping Colorado’s Geo Martinez 6- 0, 6-0 in the 130 finals.
JUNIOR FREESTYLE Nkosi Moody downed Illinois teammate
Tommy Pawelski 6-3, 5-1 to win the Junior Nationals freestyle title at 98 pounds to complete the Triple Crown. Moody had lost to Pawleski in the Illinois state freestyle tournament. Moody became the third Junior to cap- ture a USA Wrestling Triple Crown. Moody joins Montana’s Jade Rauser (2009) and Michigan’s Freddie Rodriguez (2010).
Moody’s Illinois teammate, Jahwon Akui, fell just short of winning a Junior Triple Crown. Akui, the Outstanding Wrestler in the Junior Greco-Roman tour- nament on Tuesday, fell to Wisconsin’s Devin Peterson in the 189 freestyle finals. Peterson won the first period 7-0 before recording a fall just before time ran out in the second period.
Peterson won a Junior Greco title earli- er in the week. Peterson now has five Fargo titles. He also won a Junior Nationals Greco crown in 2010. He also won a Cadet Nationals Folkstyle title in Iowa in 2009.
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