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TK can’t quite reach second day of state wrestling finals

Brett Bremer

Sports Editor

The lone member of the

Thornapple Kellogg varsity

wrestling team competing

in the MHSAA Division 2

Individual State Finals over

the weekend at Ford Field

in Detroit bowed out in the

blood round and that sec-

ond round of consolation

was unkind to a pair of TK

ladies too.

Trojan junior Jayce

Curtis got off to a good

start in his 165-pound

weight class, and TK fresh-

man Rylee Alberts won her

first match too in the Girls’

125-pound weight class.

Both were competing in

their first state finals com-

petition, as was junior

teammate Raini Braska in

the Girls’ 115-pound weight

class. TK junior Emma

Gibson, making her second

state finals appearance, was

also competing in the 125-

pound Girls’ bracket with

Alberts.

Twice Curtis turned

Southgate Anderson’s

Lavelle Hughes onto his

back in the second period

of their 165-pound opener.

He got six nearfall points

for those two turns, and

then got Hughes on his

back again in the third

period and pinned him this

time.

It was the final win of the

weekend for Curtis who fell

to Fenton senior Ben Triola

in their quarterfinal match,

7-1. Triola went on to even-

tually place third at their

weight class.

Curtis went on to the

blood round, the second

round of consolation where

the winners guarantee

themselves a state medal

and their opponents see

their season come to an

end. De La Salle Collegiate

senior Joseph Montiall took

a 12-3 win over Curtis in

that blood round match.

Curtis ends the season

with a 40-10 record.

Greenville senior

Naythan Dobson won the

weight class, outscoring

Allendale senior Harrison

Meekhof 5-4 in their cham-

pionship bout Saturday

afternoon. Triola bested

Freeland senior Gibson

Shepard 4-3 in their conso-

lation final for third place

Saturday. Montilla closed

the weekend sixth at their

weight class.

Like Curtis, Alberts and

Gibson both finished the

weekend with one win.

Alberts was bested by

DeWitt’s Jamie Cook in the

quarterfinals and then got

beat out 14-5 by

Millington’s Emmaleigh

Peters in the blood round.

Gibson was pinned by

Warren Mott’s Megan

Melnyk in her first match,

then bounced back to pin

Pinconning’s Kennedy

Cloutier in the first round

of consolation. Whittemore-

Prescott’s Serenity Hayes

outscored Gibson 9-3 in the

blood round.

Braska fell to Springport’s

Kylee Grimmett and Holt’s

Olivia Root in her two

bouts.

Lowell was once against

the big winner in Division 2

at the state finals. The Red

Arrows followed up their

team state championship

from the weekend before by

having all 11 of their guys

medal at the finals. Lowell’s

Carter Cichocki at 120

pounds, Jarrett Smith at

106, Owen Segorski at 144

and Jackson Blum all won

individual state titles.

The Red Arrows also had

Veronica Tapia place fourth

in her girls’ 100-pound

competition.

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Thornapple Kellogg junior Jayce Curtis looks for an opening against
Southgate Anderson’s Lavelle Hughes during their opening round match in
Division 2’s 165-pound weight class at the MHSAA Individual Wrestling Finals
hosted by Ford Field in downtown Detroit Friday, March 1. Curtis earned a pin
in the third period of their bout, but fell in his next two matches the finals.
(Photo by Brett Bremer)

Thornapple Kellogg freshman Rylee Alberts works to pin Warren Mott’s

Makayla Perdue-Daniels during their opener in the Girls’ 125-pound weight class

Friday, March 1, at the MHSAA Individual Wrestling Finals hosted by Ford Field

in Detroit. (Photo by Brett Bremer)

Thornapple Kellogg junior Emma Gibson fights

to try and break free from Whittemore-Prescott’s

Serenity Hayes during their blood round match in

the Girls’ 125-pound weight class at the MHSAA

Individual Wrestling Finals hosted by Ford Field in

downtown Detroit Friday, March 1. (Photo by Brett

Bremer)