After pulling out a trustworthy move at the ideal time to cap her season with a victory at the girls condition wrestling match, Melania Szawranskyj prepared to take about a week off.
Only then did the Westerville North junior hope to get started pondering about generating her fourth excursion to state upcoming yr.
“Then I’ll get proper again to it,” stated Szawranskyj, who concluded fifth at 130 kilos at condition Feb. 20 at Hilliard Davidson by pinning Marysville’s Emily Segner in 2 minutes, 44 seconds.
That was a single area superior than a 12 months in the past for Szawranskyj, who went 4-2 at state. She largely managed the match in opposition to Segner and sealed the win with working experience gained in preceding meetings.
“It’s taken me a though to defeat her (in preceding matches), so I was just striving to function the moves I have utilized just before. Some of them weren’t seriously performing, but the last shift I employed just before, the ankle pick … that is how I obtained her,” Szawranskyj reported. “I experienced her variety of in a headlock. I didn’t have her arm, so my other hand had to be out. I tried out to keep tension on her upper body and pull her head up to test and get the pin.”
Szawranskyj, who was fifth statewide in American Women’s Wrestling’s ultimate rankings, was pinned by Port Clinton’s Cadence Wallace in 4:20 to slide into the fifth-spot match. All of her matches ended up resolved by pin.
“I certainly came in to earn,” Szawranskyj said. “I’m delighted with fifth. I’m operating my way up.”
Classmate Marvet Heljazin went 1-2 at 235. She was pinned by Harrison’s Jessica Edwards in 3:47 in the very first spherical, rebounded to pin Sparta Highland’s Caitlyn Theret in 2:05 and then was pinned in 18 seconds by Hanoverton United Local’s Dakota McCracken.
North scored 20 factors and tied for 40th guiding winner Harrison (111) as 100 groups scored.
Szawranskyj and Heljazin, who was rated 11th statewide, are among the five women wrestlers for the Warriors, all of whom are eligible to return. The rest are sophomores Giselle Duran (170) and Simaya Johnson-Hunter (100) and freshman Ava Heckman (140).
•DeSales senior Ademar Ramirez designed the most of her only vacation to state, profitable four of five matches to complete 3rd at 170.
Ramirez, who wrestled as a youth but gave up the sport at age 10 before returning this period, defeated Grove City’s Francesca Lanese 10-6 in the third-position match. It was her initial gain in four matches versus Lanese this year.
“It was emotional for me when I gained that previous match,” explained Ramirez, who begun 2- at point out but dropped 7-6 to Dover’s Payton Curley in a semifinal. “It’s my senior 12 months and I needed to do a thing for myself.”
Assistant mentor Carlin Yetts reported Ramirez, who was ranked fifth statewide to end the standard period, evolved all over the yr.
“She’s a thrower, a beautiful thrower, but it was more or less (a make any difference of figuring out) she simply cannot toss most people,” Yetts mentioned. “Francesca is a great wrestler and is aware of how to counter that. We had to transform things up and not do to start with-period of time throws. It was about head placement, moving all around and finding in position to do items.”
Junior teammate Rebekah Oladokun’s match operate was slice small by an asthma attack experienced at the end of her 155 consolation semifinal versus Watterson’s Lily Grayem. Oladokun completed 3-3, shedding 7-1 to Grayem before possessing to forfeit the fifth-area match towards Olentangy Orange’s Surraiya Mahmud.
The Stallions completed 17th (31).
•In its initial season of acquiring ladies contend, South also had its initially state qualifier as junior Olamide Olobatuyi highly developed at 170 by ending fourth at district Feb. 13 at Olentangy Orange.
She could not contend at point out for the reason that of another college commitment.
“Olamide did good. She did wonderful,” mentor George Crooks reported. “She has a good deal of talent. She wrestled a great deal of varsity and some j.v. matches against boys at that excess weight, and that is a whole lot of weight for a girl to have to consider to cope with. She didn’t get quite many women matches for the duration of the year, but when she did, she received most of them.”
Freshman Arielle Rollins also competed, ending -2 at district at 130.
Both equally have been in their first calendar year in the activity.
“Both women practiced with the boys,” Crooks said. “Olamide wrestled some really tricky children in follow. They each enhanced. Olamide received really very good on her ft. … We taught them like any one else. It was refreshing.”
—Frank DiRenna
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