ROCKY RIVER—Lutheran West’s Paris Willis defended her home mat and won a second straight Lady Longhorn Invitational championship on Saturday.
Willis, the 170-pound champion, finished the two-day tournament at Lutheran West with a 7-0 record and seven pins, including one in 13 seconds and another in an ultimate tiebreaker in a semifinal win over Mentor’s Madi Menchaca.
Behind Willis’ championship run and Olivia Grace’s fourth-place finish at 130, the Longhorns finished ninth out of 51 teams.
Other Chagrin Valley Conference wrestlers to earn a spot on the podium included Edgewood’s Neveah Hibbard (4th, 115) and Aubrey Tolley (6th, 120), Madison’s Taylor MacAdam (3rd, 100) and Abby Forster (2nd, 155), Perry’s Eva Kutscher (6th, 235), and Trinity’s Isabel Iacano (5th, 145) and Koko Bryant (5th, 155).
Hibbard went 4-2 with four pins, Tolley was 3-3 with three pins, MacAdam went 5-1 with five pins, Kutscher was 4-3 with four pins, Iacano went 5-2 with four pins and a 15-14 win in the fifth-place match, and Bryant finished the tournament 5-1 with four pins. Her only loss was to Forster in the semifinal round.
Forster’s run to the 155-pound championship bout included three pins—each in 20 seconds or fewer—in poll wrestling and two more falls in bracket wrestling.
