Saint girls host first home tournament
By Kristi Nixon
ST. ANSGAR — In its first girls wrestling season on their own, the Saints claimed one title, a first of the season for senior Emma Hall, at 110 pounds.
With coach Katie Walk’s team without its only ranked wrestler, Mariah Michels, with a medical issue according to Walk, who she said should be back this next week, the Saints scored 50 points to finish sixth in the six-team field.
“I was pretty happy with the performances,” Walk said. “We’ve seen a lot of competition with the late meet with Central Elkader, and we were all late last night with the youth tournament, so there has been a lot going on, but we’ve been practicing really hard, and we’ve seen a lot of stuff we’ve been working on come out. Of course, it’s stuff we’re continuing to work on.”
Hall defeated all four of her opponents by fall in a grand total of 5 minutes, 5 seconds, three in the first period and took the longest in the final round against Crestwood’s Eva Sebastian at 3:10 to improve to 9-3 overall.
“It means a lot to me,” Hall said. “I hadn’t won a meet yet this year, so it’s really good to win a home meet and just win in general. I had to work a little harder with the last girl that I wrestled, but other than that, it wasn’t that difficult for me.”
She defeated a couple of North Central Trailblazers in rounds two and four, but neither were her teammates a year ago.
“Neither of the Trailblazer girls I wrestled were on the team last year,” Hall said, “so it didn’t feel weird, but if I would have known them, it definitely would have been weird.”
More on this story, and more photos, will be found in the Dec. 6 print and e-editions of the Enterprise Journal.
