Ringgold finishes third at Murray County Invitational

Heritage takes fifth, LaFayette sixth

This past Thursday was a good day for the Ringgold High School wrestling team as the mat Tigers claimed four individual championships and finished in third place at the Murray County Invitational.

Pierce Pennington took first in the 113-pound weight class with a 4-2 win over Matthew Sosebee of Southeast Whitfield, while Hudson Moss earned the 126-pound title after pinning Murray County’s Caleb Blair in 5:41.

Tristan Busch claimed the third title as he needed 4:00 to pin Lumpkin County’s T.J. Payne at 138 pounds. Levi Lowery finished up with a 9-0 victory over Model’s Clay Koehler in the 220-pound finals.

In addition, Brentlee Raby was third for the Tigers at 195 and Nolan Rohrer was fourth at 120.

Heritage, who finished in fifth place, saw Eli Wingrove take the 160-pound title with a 3-0 decision against Model’s Noah Allmon.

The Generals had three more wrestlers make the finals. However, Tate Thomas (106), Mike Stokes (145) and Skylar Grant (170) all lost their matches. Drew Dietz placed third for Heritage at 138.

Grant’s loss came at the hands of LaFayette’s Caleb Zwiger, who won the match by pin in 1:14. Jacob Brown finished second at 182 pounds for the Ramblers. Jacob Hamilton (120) and Haygen Baker (126) were both third and Eli Hudson (106) placed fourth as LaFayette finished sixth overall.

North Murray took first place in the 11-team tournament with 126 points. Lumpkin County was second with 118, followed in the top five by Ringgold (115), Model (114.5) and Heritage (94), while LaFayette (83) finished sixth.

GORDON LEE BATTLES IN ROCKMART

The Trojans took nine wrestlers to the Rockmart Invitational last Wednesday and finished with 56.5 points to place 14th out of 19 teams in attendance.

Landon Brown (113 pounds) was the only GL wrestler to make it through to the semifinals, but none of the Trojans’ wrestlers finished in the top four of their respective weight classes.

Also wrestling for Gordon Lee on Wednesday was Wil Tumblin (120), Brock Crutchfield (132), Penn Askew (145), Avery Bloodworth (152), Dalton Russell (160), Michael Branam (170), Timy Duke (195) and Gabe Lowe (285).

Trion won the team title with 277.5 points, followed by host Rockmart (218.5) and Dade County (155.5).

Scott Herpst Ringgold’s Levi Lowery tries to get Murray County’s Caleb Peden on his back during an early-round match at the Murray County Invitational on Thursday. Down 6-3 with 23 seconds left, Lowery got a late pin and used it as a springboard for one of the Tigers’ four individual titles at the tournament.