Saturday
UJ Women’s Wrestling
YORK, Neb. (UJ) — Kelly La Cost (FR/Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.)’s third-place finish at 191 pounds highlighted the University of Jamestown women’s wrestling team’s performance at the York College Open Saturday.
Three other wrestlers–Josie Bartishofski (SO/Weston, Wis.) (116), Allie Baudhuin (SO/Coppell, Texas) (130), and Sierra Talmadge (JR/Bismarck, N.D.) (170)–placed fourth in their divisions.
La Cost was pinned by the NAIA’s eighth-ranked Elisa Robinson of Baker University, but came back to win her next two matches by pin. La Cost stuck Annalease Barraza of Indian Hills in 1:29, then pinned Sofia Rubio, also of Indian Hils, in 1:47.
Bartishofski defeated 10th-ranked Shae Muecke of Grand View by 10-0 tech fall, then won a 9-1 decision over Schreiner University’s Alina Kinsey. Camile Fournier of Texas Wesleyan pinned Bartishofski in the semifinals, but bounced back with a 12-2 tech fall win over Baker’s Katherine Heath. Bartishofski and Kinsey squared off again in the third place match, and this time Kinsey emerged victorious by 8-6 decision.
Baudhuin, ranked 8th at 130 pounds, opened with a pin of Indian Hills’ Angelique Torres in 48 seconds, then followed with a 10-0 tech fall victory over Baker’s Raegen Stinemetz. In the semifinals, Baudhuin matched up against No. 2 De’Anna Prince of Wayland Baptist, and Prince came away with a pin in 3:44. Baudhuin took a 10-0 tech fall over Schreiner’s Jenna Hartman before falling to 5th-ranked Isabella Gonzalez of Grand View in the third-place match.
Talmadge started the day with an 11-0 tech fall over Kassandra Lindemann of Grand View, then lost a 9-0 decision to unattached Nesa Martinez. In the consolation semifinals, Talmadge won a 12-2 tech fall over Mikayla Mata of Schreiner University, and in the third-place match, was pinned by second-ranked Jennifer Curry of Baker.
Seventeenth-ranked Arianna Marrufo (JR/Dos Palos, Calif.) (123) defeated No. 7 Jasmine Davis of Wayland Baptist by 13-2 tech fall and also won a 10-0 tech fall over Prethy Enriquez of Midland.
Xandra Edwards (FR/Tustin, Calif.) (130) pinned her opponents in both of her victories, with the fastest coming in 48 seconds.
The Jimmies will be in action again on February 6 at the Grand View Open in Des Moines, Iowa.
Men…
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (UJ) — The University of Jamestown men’s wrestling competed for the first time since December 5, wrestling a pair of duals Saturday at the Morningside Triangular.
The Jimmies faced the host Mustangs in a GPAC battle, with Morningside taking a 45-9 victory. UJ concluded the day against 17th-ranked Montana State-Northern, and MSU-N came out on top by a 37-15 score.
Morningside 45, Jamestown 9
Jake Hamilton (FR/Colorado Springs, Colo.) (157) and Ian Howell (FR/Wildwood, Ga.) (285) picked up the only UJ wins against Morningside in Saturday’s opener.
Hamilton won an 8-5 decision over Brody Kacmarynski. Howell pinned Derrell Zagurski, the GPAC’s 6th-ranked heavyweight, in 1:45.
Montana State-Northern 37, UJ 15
Tommy Beringer (FR/Murrieta, Calif.) (141) and Ramiro Macias (SR/Delano, Calif.) (285) had the Jimmie victories against Montana State-Northern, the top team in the Cascade Conference and 17th in the national rankings.
Beringer defeated Clayton Currier, the Cascade’s fourth-ranked wrestler, by a 10-7 decision.
Macias needed just 73 seconds to pin Travis Adams and remains unbeated in dual competition.
Jamestown is back in action at the Missouri Valley College Invitational in Marshall, Mo., January 22-23.
