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NEWPORT – The Newport High School girls’ wrestling team came out of the gate ready to work at the Colfax 1A/2B/1B Girls Scramble on Thursday, Dec. 12, with freshman Payton Bennett leading the charge. Bennett, competing in the 100-pound weight division, has started the winter sports season with five wins and no losses. She won first place in the Scramble and went on to do it again at last Saturday’s Tie Dyes and Takedowns Invitational at Cheney.
At the Scramble she took both of her opponents down, pinning them in less than 90 seconds.
The Lady Grizzlies achieved several victories at Colfax, with five wrestlers winning spots on the podium in third place or better. Savannah Garris, 125, wasn’t far behind Bennett, coming in second in her weight class after pinning one opponent in the first round and getting pinned herself in the other.
Other teammates finished in second place for their weight brackets, with Addison Stigall, 135, and Aspen Gow,115, both winning one of their matches and losing two. Clover Tannehill, 190, came in fifth place.
It was more of the same for Bennett at Tie Dyes and Takedowns last Saturday, where she beat all three of her opponents by pin. Stigall garnered third place after losing in the semifinals and bouncing back to win by pins in her next two matches. Garris went 3-2, including two pins in a row that got her to the third-fourth place match which she won by a pin. Tannehill came in fifth place.
Newport finished the event in eighth place out of 14 schools with a score of 73.5 points. Cheney claimed the team title.
The girls and the boys head to the M2 Mallet Tournament at Rogers High School Saturday, Dec. 21 at 9 a.m.
