The future of the program was at work this weekend, the junior varsity boys taking on several area programs at the 49th annual Goshen JV Invite and the girls at the second running of the Lakeland Girls Invite.

At Goshen

Wawasee had four boys wrestling for bracket bragging rights, and one of them got it.

Gaige Boyd worked through the 138-pound ‘A’ bracket and took care of matters in his three turns on the mat. Escalating, he went from decision to major decision to pin in his three wins, the latter a 2:16 clearance of Penn’s Lucas Williams to get the posterboard.

Three Warriors were second place after losses in championship rounds. Garrett Tittle made the 113 ‘A’ final but ran into a tough result against East Noble’s Jaiden Ventzka in a 12-3 major decision. Anthony Hughes and Elkhart’s Brandon Sardi were tied at six starting the third period of the 138 ‘B’ final, but Sardi opened with an escape and takedown to go up three, and even though Hughes got a reversal out of the exchange, Sardi scored three more points to finish off a 12-8 decision. Jimtown’s Owen Glass worked off the top to pin Blake Rolston in the second period of the 175 ‘C’ final.

Four Warriors finished third in their respective brackets in Zeke Spore (138), Kyron Cantu (144), Thomas Sigsbee (150) and Devin Sewell (157), and two more were fourth in Adam Jackson (132) and Dom Brown (175).

Full results for the Goshen JV Invite can be found here at Track Wrestling.

At Lakeland

Wawasee had 10 girls active at Lakeland, landing two in second place to headline its day in LaGrange.

Isabel Schwartz was 2-1 in the 105-pound round robin, her only loss to Daleville’s Kynlie Keffer in the three-match series. Schwartz’s two wins were by pin fall. At 140 pounds, Cyanna Leon came from the bottom of the bracket to end up in the final, only to fall at 2:36 to East Noble’s Kahmya Bell. Leon won both her lead-up matches via decision and pin. In the same 140 bracket, Kenidi Nine rallied from a loss to Bell in the semis to take third.

Alex Garcia was fourth at 155 after four wins, and Tiana Senders was fourth at 170.

Full results for the Lakeland Girls Invite can be found here at Track Wrestling.