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Panthers' Ridgeway wins wrestling title
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Great Bend High School’s Breanna Ridgeway grapples with Garden City rival Belle Hernandez during their 5A state finals matchup on Thursday night in Park City.

Panthers’ Ridgeway earns gold medal

Great Bend’s defending state champion Breanna Ridgeway (132) captured a gold medal by pinning Russell’s Jaden Ney (3:02) in Saturday’s Great Bend Girls Wrestling Invitational.

Two other Panthers Daizy Gomes (126) and Sierra Ferguson (143) lost in their championship matches. Emporia’s Madelynn Griffin pinned Gomez (3:28) in the finals. Goddard’s Ashlynn Goodwin pinned Ferguson (4:45) in the championship match.

Great Bend’s Paige Sanders (138B) placed runner-up with a loss (2:29) against Dodge City’s Haily Ramos. Haylee Holinde (191), Mayra Gonzalez (109B) and Danica Cline (155B) placed third in their weight classes.

GREAT BEND INVITATIONAL

109—Bosserman, Oakley pinned Caitlyn White, GB, 1:15; Bock, JC pinned White, 0:33

115—Rose Campos, GB pinned Perez, Emporia, 0;13; Chapa, GC pinned Campos 0:43; Campos pinned Keighyn Dombroski, Ellinwood, 1:00; Schwartz, Hoisington def. Campos, 12-9

120—Jaydon Davis, GB, pinned Vesser, Mc, 3:07; Grandclair, Hoisington pinned Davis, 3:09; Kinsinger, VC pinned Davis, 3:38

126—Griffin, Emporia pinned Denise Chavez, GB, 0:34; Chavez pinned Franks, JC, 2:19; Schwartz, Scott City pinned Chavez, 0:57

126—Daizy Gomez, GB pinned Worthy, Emporia, 0:27; Gomez pinned Emily Lovett, Hoisington, 1:50; 1ST—Griffin, Emporia pinned Gomez, 3:28; Kuntzsch, Russell pinned Raegan Ketch, GB, 3;55; Schwartz pinned Ketch, 2:48

132—Breanna Ridgeway, GB pinned Schwab, VC, 0:20; Ridgeway pinned Daijah Jones, Hoisington, 1:43; Ridgeway pinned Gross, Mc, 0:57; 1ST—Ridgeway pinned Ney, Russell, 3:02
138—Katie Kuhlman, GB def. Kia Stokes, VC; Tally Wikum, Hoisington pinned Kuhlman, 0:51; Guzman, Lyons pinned Kuhlman, 1:22

143—Sierra Ferguson, GB pinned Tanaka, JC, 0:32; Ferguson pinned Guzman, GC, 1:32; Ferguson def. Cruz, GC, 5-2; 1ST—Ashlynn Goodwin, Goddard pinned Ferguson, 4:45

155—Gracyn Dombroski, Ellinwood pinned Lea Nokes, GB, 1:50; Nokes pinned Revel, Lyons, 3:33; Guzman, GC pinned Nokes, 0:30

170—Kynslee White, GB def. Pickering, Nickerson, 11-9; Almaraz, DC pinned White, 0:59; Esparza, Emporia def. White, 7-2

191—Haylee Holinde, GB pinned Gonzales, Mc, 1:24; Kutina, Mc pinned Holinde, 3:55; Holinde pinned Hall, AC, 2:00; 3RD—Holinde pinned Amelia Britting, Mc, 2;19

109B—Mayra Gonzalez, GB pinned Heifner, Ellis, 1:20; Brown, Hoisington pinned Gonzalez, 1:18; Gonzalez pinned Carroll, VC, 1:14; 3RD--Beltran, DC pinned Gonzalez 1:35;
Hernandez, Hays pinned McKayla Smith, GB, 1:22; Beltran, DC pinned Smith, 0:39

138B—Paige Sanders, GB pinned Geier, GC, 0:35; Sanders pinned Partridge, Emporia, 1:51; Sanders pinned Cummins, Mc, 0:45; Sanders pinned Balthazor, Stockton, 3:13;

1ST—Ramos, DC pinned Sanders, 2:29
155B—Danica Cline, GB pinned Brown, JC, 3:25; Newton, Cimarron pinned Cline, 3:50; Cline pinned Ashlyn Langdell, Ellinwood, 0:34; 3RD— Cline def. Reimler, Ell-Saline, 18-5; Daniels, GB pinned Almanza, Lyons, 4:27; Newton, Cimarron pinned Daniels, 0:37; Brown, JC pinned Daniels