EHS GIRLS WRESTLING: Bailey captures title as Hornets finish eighth at holiday tournament

More girls showed up than expected at the Rogers High holiday girls wrestling tournament Dec. 19, throwing a curve into the 16-person bracket and making for a long day.

More girls showed up than expected at the Rogers High holiday girls wrestling tournament Dec. 19, throwing a curve into the 16-person bracket and making for a long day.

But when the flurry of competition concluded Enumclaw finished eighth among the 23 teams and Chantelle Bailey was a champion again.

Yelm won, finishing nearly 10 points ahead of Kelso. Rogers was third and Hoquiam was fourth. Neighboring White River finished ninth.

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“It was crazy,” coach Jerry Scheidt said. “But the girls got to see a lot of competition.”

Enumclaw’s defending state champion Bailey kept her streak running as she won the 171-pound title with a 1-minute, 42-second pin over Morgan Michel in the final.

Bailey earned a first-round bye and then three-straight first-round pins for her title, including the one for the crown. She topped Sam Mitchell in 27 seconds and Mount Baker’s Jessica Taranenko in 1:13.

At 103 pounds, after dropping her opening match, Maranda Long won two straight, 13-4 and 13-7, to finish third.

Rose Johnson also finished third. Johsnon earned a first-round bye and a 34-second pin before falling into the consolation bracket and settling for third. Fellow Hornet Jade Patterson won her opener in the same weight division with a 30-second pin before running into eventual runner-up Chloe Grafwallner of Mount Baker, who also was Johnson’s downfall. Patterson rallied with two-straight first-round pins to finish fifth.

Kassandra Renfrow won two out of three to finish fifth at 145 pounds.

At 160, Logan Erskine earned a first-round bye and a second-round pin before finishing fifth.

In her first tournament in a year, 160-pound Carson Seitz, who sat out last season with a shoulder injury, won her opening match 3-2, before suffering a pin. She rallied with a pin of her own before exiting the tournament.

The Hornets were scheduled to participate in a tournament at Mount Rainier High Tuesday. Results of that tournament came too late to be published here.