With five individual champions apiece, Bishop Carroll's boys and Wichita North's girls captured Greater Wichita Athletic League wrestling tournament titles on Saturday at North High School.
The Golden Eagles won their second consecutive GWAL boys team title with 227 points. Kapaun Mount Carmel was second with 165.5 points and Wichita Northwest was third with 133.
Carroll, unbeaten in GWAL duals during the regular season, put 10 wrestlers in the boys championship matches. Freshmen Caden Denton (106 pounds) and Karston Wall (120), and seniors Caleb Means (138), Ryan Pacha (145) and Antonio Huerta (160) won titles.
Denton, ranked No. 5 in the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association's Class 5A rankings at 106, pinned Wichita West's Jamal Garrett in the second period. Wall captured his title with a third-period pin over Wichita North's Martin Gutierrez.
Means, whose twin sister Cadence won her weight class in the GWAL girls meet, defeated Northwest's Brendan Lewis 16-4. Pacha, ranked fifth at 145, edged Kapaun's Efe Otarighobe 7-3 and Huerta, No. 4 at 160, pinned North's Cruz Alvarado midway through the first period.
Kapaun senior Bubba Wright, 5A's top-ranked wrestler at 126, moved to 33-3 on the season with a first-period pin of West's Zeke Brown in the championship round. Wright, the reigning 5A 120-pound champion, joined senior Austin Ruda (126), junior Adrian Turner (152), sophomore Omari Elias (170) and junior Nathan Fury (182), a state finalist last season, as Crusader individual champions.
Other weight-class winners were North junior Richard Shields (113), Northwest senior Zach Morford (195), Northwest junior Caden Ross (220) and Wichita South junior Matt Godsey (285). Shields, No. 4 in 6A at 113, defeated Kapaun's Romiz Monaco to improve to 26-3. Morford, No. 6 in 6A at 195, pinned Carroll's Broc Eastman in the third period.
Ross, a 195-pound state finalist last season and ranked first in 6A at 220, pinned North's AJ Aranda late in the opening period, while Godsey, ranked sixth in 6A in his weight class, defeated Carroll's Hank Purvis 9-5.
In the GWAL girls meet, North, the top-ranked team in Class 6-5A, topped the field to earn a share of the league championship with Kapaun. The Crusaders gained their portion by posting the best record in league duals, which included a 42-30 victory over North in December.
North dominated the lower weight classes to win the league meet with 171 points. Kapaun, in its first season of girls team competition, was second with 108 and Northwest was third with 80.
North senior Bilhah Bengi, ranked third in 6-5A at 101, pinned Wichita Heights' Ezariah Gonzales to win her weight class. Junior Larisa Garcia, the reigning 101-pound state champion, defeated Wichita West's Ruby Rubio 7-0 for the 109-pound crown. Top-ranked junior Rodah Bengi improved to 33-0 with a second-period pin of Kapaun's Vy Do at 115 and junior Diana Urista pinned Heights' Makenzie Buyno to win at 120.
Sophomore Jaycee Tyler rounded out North's group of individual champions with a first-period pin of Kapaun's Mya Owens at 143.
Kapaun was the only other team with multiple individual winners. Freshman Gianna Redcorn edged Wichita Southeast's Egypt Allen 8-5 at 170, while junior Catherine Burr pinned Heights' Mariah Johnson in the third period to win at 191.
Other weight-class champions included Wichita East junior Haley Somchay (126), Northwest's Lillianna Gallegos (132), Carroll's Cadence Means (138), South's Delilah Sherbin (155) and West's Druzzla Johnson (235).
DERBY BOYS WIN ROSE HILL TOC
Juniors Braden Tatum and Tate Rusher won individual titles to lead Derby's boys to a victory in the Rose Hill Tournament of Champions on Saturday.
The Panthers scored 180 points to outdistance Augusta and Chanute, which tied for second with 155.5. Host Rose Hill was fourth with 132.
Tatum, ranked third in 6A at 120, completed his run through the bracket with an 8-2 decision over Fort Scott's Jasper Allison. Tatum improved to 23-2 while Allison, No. 2 in the 4A rankings, lost for just the second time this season.
Rusher, 6A's No. 2 wrestler at 138, pinned Augusta's Grady Fox in the second period to win the weight class. The Panthers had seven other top-six finishers.