LANGLEY – Ben Morgan, a regional participant last season, led South Whidbey to a 54-28 Cascade Conference victory over Granite Falls Thursday with a pin at 145 pounds.
“He had a really good match,” Granite Falls coach Tony Helgeson said. “It was a momentum turner.”
Freshman Zach Jones got Granite Falls off to a great start with a pin at 189 pounds.
“He had a great match against Richard Rangel,” Helgeson said. “We were surprised. We didn’t think he’d get get a pin but he did.”
Twelve of the 14 bouts ended with pins, nine by undefeated South Whidbey (1-0 league, 4-0 overall).
“It was a good little head-to-head battle,” said Helgeson, whose team was coming off its first dual-meet win since 1997.
At South Whidbey H.S.
189-Jones (GF) pinned Rangel 3:44; 215-Richter (GF) pinned Brittan 5:04; 285-Rawls (SW) pinned A. McKibben 1:37; 103-Vaughn (SW) pinned Jenkins 3:16; 112-Mora (GF) pinned K. Warwick 5:18; 119-Messina (SW) pinned R. Peter 5:13; 125-Lopez (GF) won by forfeit; 130-B. Warwick (SW) pinned Hunt 1:04; 135-Mannie (SW) pinned Wilson 3:30; 140-Schorr (SW) pinned Scheiene 4:35; 145-Morgen (SW) pinned Bucklin 3:35; 152-Long (SW) pinned Z. Peter 3:20; 160-Flores (SW) pinned Poyner 1:25; 171-M. McKibben major dec. Romero 14-6; Records-Granite Falls 1-1 in league, 1-2 overall. S. Whidbey 1-0, 4-0.
Concrete 42, Darrington 26: At Darrington, Stormee Brown (21-5 overall) and Conner Rounds (21-2) remained unbeaten in Northwest 1A/2B League matches with wins at 140 and 215 pounds, respectively. Darrington’s Paden Newberry pinned his 160-pound opponent in 30 seconds to improve to 18-4.
At Darrington H.S.
103-Forrest (D) won by forfeit; 112-Benjamin (C) pinned Loughnan 4:58; 119-Webster (C) pinned Jesson 1:40; 125-Paxton (C) pinned Kandt 2:35; 130-Palmer (D) pinned West :57; 135-Fallis (C) pinned Groh 5:34; 140-Brown (D) major dec. Rice 9-0; 145-Holt (C) pinned Dolph 1:51; 152-Gilvin (C) pinned Brooks 1:04; 160-Newberry (D) pinned Bryant :30; 171-Nunley (C) pinned Wesson 3:30; 189-Dillenger (C) pinned Herston 5:36; 215-Rounds (D) major dec. Cress 8-2; 285-Claybo (C) pinned Hyde 5:45. Records-Concrete 4-0 in league, 5-1 overall. Darrington 1-1, 5-4.
Boys swimming
Marysville-Pilchuck 110, Stanwood 73: At Marysville, Trevor LeValley, swimming the 100-yard backstroke for the first time this season, swam a state meet qualifying time of 57.03 seconds and participated on two winning relay teams to lead M-P to the Wesco North win. Zach McCune won two individual races and swam on the winning 400 freestyle relay team for Stanwood.
At Marysville-Pilchuck H.S.
200 medley relay-M-P (LeValley, Schaufler, Henninger, Abadam) 1:49.13; 200 freestyle-Goff (M-P) 2:04.48; 200 individual medley-McCune (S) 2:18.19; 50 freestyle-Henninger (M-P) 24.32; Diving-Wilcox (M-P) 154.35; 100 butterfly-McCune (S) 58.73; 100 freestyle-Tobin (S) 54.63; 500 freestyle-Hammer (S) 5:20.45; 200 freestyle relay-M-P (Goff, Henninger, LeValley, Schaufler) 1:34.64; 100 backstroke-LeValley (M-P) 57.03*; 100 breaststroke-Coleman (M-P) 1:10.53; 400 freestyle relay-Stanwood (Pope, Hammer, McCune, Tobin) 3:39.38 Records-Stanwood 1-3 league, 4-4 overall. M-P 4-1, 4-3.
*4A state meet qualifying time.
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