Wrestlers place in state’s top 15

YOUNG GRAPPLERS

Jones County’s middle school wrestlers took the mats among the state’s best at Saturday’s state middle school duals with multiple wrestlers coming away from the day with victories as they were among the 15 teams competing.

Brooks Scott, Caleb Thompson and Malakie Fritz either got two wins or were credited with two victories with other wins being picked up by Alan Perez, Sam Hall, Jayden Finney, Canyon Ulrich, Zayne Harding and Avery Davis.

Heath leads Greyhound Westling Club at Devil Dog Invitational

In addition to building fundamentals of wrestling at a young age, another one of the anchor points of the Greyhound Wrestling Club is to provide the chance to compete in tournaments.

A total of 10 club members did that over the weekend at the SGAC Devil Dog Invitational in Perry with the top showing coming from Bradley Heath, who went 4-0 in his 8U First Year Division with Cohen Wilson placing fourth. James Carden was third in 10U First Year as Grant Gillhouse took third in 6U Open. Lucas Carden took fourth in the 6U First Year Division.

For more info on the Greyhound Wrestling Club, e-mail jcgwc2024@gmail.com.