With two title winners – Jacob Short and Chase Myers – and a handful of runners-up, No. 11-ranked White River High took a run at No. 2-ranked Enumclaw Saturday at the South Puget Sound League 3A subregional tournament at Auburn Mountainview High.

The Buckley Hornets finished second with 350.5 points, while the Enumclaw Hornets won it with 388.5. Auburn Mountainview, Bonney Lake and Peninsula rounded out the top five.

“We wrestled well and that’s good stuff,” coach Joe Klein said. “It was fun. We stepped up this weekend and did some good stuff. We had a great weekend. We get better every week. We were breathing down Enumclaw’s neck.

“This tournament is about the depth of the program, our junior varsity and our varsity,” Klein said. “Every team gets two entries at every weight class. I’m proud. I’m happy. I think everyone we brought scored points.

“Next weekend is about the quality of the guys we’re taking. We’d like to get everybody there (state).”

The Hornets will take 12 wrestlers plus four alternates to Saturday’s regional tournament at Mount Rainier High in Des Moines. From there the top four wrestlers advance to Mat Classic, the state tournament Feb. 19 and 20 at the Tacoma Dome.

Short, a freshman, earned the Hornets’ first title of the night at 119 pounds. He did it with a 10-7 decision over Justus Strong-Rico of Lakes. Short earned his shot at the crown with a 9-7 decision and a 3-minute, 32-second fall.

Myers, a senior, earned the Hornets’ second title of the night, pinning Enumclaw’s Steven Knapp in 3:06. It was Myers’ third pin of the day, picking up the other two in 28 and 19 seconds.

Senior Alec Williams was a runner-up at 140 pounds. Williams, who scored back-to-back first-round pins on his way to the finals, lost a 10-2 decision to Nick Bendon of Bonney Lake for the crown.

At 160 pounds, Austin Bethel pinned his first opponent and then scored a 13-5 and 3-0 decision to earn his spot in the finals where he fell to Enumclaw’s Kario Wallin 8-2 for second place.

Junior heavyweight Dave Meagher finished second to Bonney Lake’s Jared Dorsey, 4-2. Meagher opened the tournament with a 30-second fall and followed it up with another in 1:44 before facing Dorsey. Teammate Kyle Rodate, a junior, finished third to earn his trip to regionals.

Junior Richard Geddes, 103 pounds, senior Robert Kautzman, 125, junior Austin Shirey, 130, junior Caden Pugmire, 145, and senior Jacob Short, 189, also finished third and advanced to the regional tournament.

Junior Noah Geehan rounded out the Hornets’ regional lineup with a fourth-place finish at 171 pounds.

Freshman Carl Klein, 103, junior Tony Tyler, 140, junior Jeff Kisner, 171, and senior Chris Skinner, 189, will serve as alternates after earning fifth-place finishes.

Senior Cody Blue was sixth at 152, while junior Nate Rasmussen finished sixth at 215.