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Monarch girls finish 4th at LoMa Wrestling Tournament Saturday 1/11/25
Date: January 11, 2025 Team Place: 4th out of 23
Location: Logan-Magnolia
Teams:
Atlantic, ATU, Audubon, CBAL, Denison, Glenwood, Hinton/SBL, Lo-Ma, Louisville (NE),
Missouri Valley, Omaha Buena Vista, Omaha Burke, Omaha Skutt, Schuyler (NE), Sioux
Center, SC North, SC West, Southwest Iowa, Southwest Valley, Treynor, West Lyon,
Western Iowa, Yutan (NE)
100 Daniela Salinas 2nd Place
Champ Round 1 BYE
Quarters Won by Decision (8-3) over Brianna Meza (SCW)
Semis Won by Decision (7-5) over Jenisha Sasankhar (OMB)
Finals Lost by Fall (0:38) to Ellie Johnson (CBAL)
110 Addison Ransom DNP
Champ Round 1 Lost by Fall (3:38) to Jordyn Boswell (TREY)
Cons Round 1 BYE
Cons. Round 2 Lost by Fall (1:02) to Fernanda Grima-Lopez (OBV)
115 Yarecze Rodriguez 6th Place
Champ Round 1 Won by Fall (3:22) over Ester Miranda (SCHY)
Cons Round 1 Lost by Fall (1:57) to Allison Hoefling (HINT)
Cons. Round 2 Won by Fall (4:55) over Raelle Kroese (SCEN)
Cons. Semis Won by Fall (4:24) over Makenzie Cameron (WEIA)
5th Place Match Lost by Fall (4:49) to Hailee Showers (CBAL)
130 Angie Rivera 4th Place
Champ Round 1 BYE
Quarters Won by Decision (SV-1 5-2) over Andyn White (TREY)
Semis Lost by Med. Forf. to Jordan Buffum (LOMA)
3rd Place Match Lost by Med. Forf. to Abby Kueffer (HINT)
140 Andrea Alcaraz 6th Place
Champ Round 1 Lost by Fall (3:12) to Eliana Kooi (WLY)
Cons Round 1 BYE
Cons Round 2 Won by Fall (1:11) over Carly Tanner (HINT)
Cons Semis Won by Med. Forf. over Maya Rivas (GLEN)
5th Place Match Lost by Fall (2:14) to Tikvah Tea (SCEN)
145 Giana Garcia 4th Place
Champ Round 1 Won by Fall (5:20) over Kristina Fisher (GLEN)
Quarters Won by Fall (3:12) over Bella Kolvek (LOU)
Semis Lost by Maj. Dec. (14-3) to Halle Mosaquites (HINT)
3rd Place Match Lost by Fall (2:32) to Liz Young (TREY)
155 Taylor Walker DNP
Champ Round 1 Lost by Fall (0:38) to Marlee Pittet (WEIA)
Cons Round 1 BYE
Cons Round 2 Lost by Fall (1:42) t0 Leiah Thomas (ATL)
170 Kasandra Barroso 3rd Place
Champ Round 1 Won by Fall (1:13) over Tatiana Orozco (SWI)
Quarters Won by Fall (5:50) over Precious Kredit (SCEN)
Semis Lost by Fall (1:39) to Ashley Chasteen (HINT)
3rd Place Match Won by Fall (1:49) over Catalina Jones (LOU)
190 Gracen Plagge 4th Place
Champ Round 1 BYE
Quarters Won by Maj. Dec. (10-0) over Mariah Nichols (WEIA)
Semis Lost by Fall (3:03) to Amethyst James (GLEN)
3rd Place Match Lost by Fall (1:49) to Kloe Knutson (LOU)
Comments from the Monarch coaching staff:
We probably put together our best outing of the season in Logan as we took 9 girls and 7 of them placed in
the top 6 of their bracket. Really proud of how we just kept wrestling all day and when we looked up at the
end we sat in 4th place as a team. Many of our girls outwrestled their seeds and took it to some girls at a
tough tournament.
Daniela Salinas was our lone wrestler to make the finals, and the rest of our girls just battled through the
bracket all day. That's really how we're going to compete in tournaments without having a ton of top-tier
talent at this point. There were a number of matches that we wrestled a complete match and didn't panic
as we may have in the past - Gracen majored a girl, Giana overcame a 7-0 deficit in the first round, Angie
won in OT, Kasandra threw a headlock down 9-3 to win, Daniela won two close decisions. We're looking to
use those experiences to help us as we enter the final stretch.
Our message to the girls in these last few weeks is that the play doesn't care who makes it. There's going to
be a winner and a loser regardless. They're going to give out medals at the tournament. There will be two
state qualifiers at every weight class. The road to state is littered with should'ves, would'ves, and could'ves -
so we're looking to leave it all out there, keep staying in matches, and wrestling through positions to give
ourselves a chance to make a trip to Iowa City in February.