Northern Tier Sports ReportHANOVER — Towanda saw five wrestlers earn podium spots as they took fourth at the Hawkeye Girls Holiday Classic on Saturday.
Kaylen Sluyter (118) and Ily Benjamin (142) both came away with silver, as Elizabeth Naughton (155) was third. Sierra Gromley (155), and Hailey Harbst (106) took home fifth place medals.
“A great day with lots of great wrestling,” said Towanda coach Brock Nichols. “To finish fourth as a team in a tournament as deep as this was proof of all the hard work they put in. Ily Benjamin had an awesome day finishing second. She’s been grinding so hard in the room, it was great to see it all come together for her.”
Sluyter had three falls and a tech fall to get to the finals, where she lost 7-4 to Greater Nanticoke’s Emily Kivler. She went 4-1 on the day.
Benjamin had two falls, and a tech fall to get to the finals, where she lost by fall to Hazleton’s Miah Molinaro. She went 3-1 on the day.
Naughton opened with two first period falls before getting pinned. She bounced back with two more falls to take home bronze, pinning CMVT’s Piper Reed in 3:36.
Naughton went 4-1 on the day.
Gromley had a wild day, opening things up by getting pinned. She scored three straight falls after that to get into the medals, where she lost by fall again.
In the fifth place bout she pinned Danville’s Madelyn Sarviss in 1:39, who pinned her in her opening bout. Gromley finished 4-2 on the day.
Harbst won her first match by fall, then lost by fall in the next two rounds. In the fifth place match she pinned Delaware Valley’s Annabelle Viera in 1:23 to go 2-2 on the day.
Kendal Cook (148), and Kenzie Brown (130) both went 2-2 as Lia Fischer (136), and Sophia Smallwood (190) both went 1-2.
Adalee Wecker (170), Kaylee Johnson (100), Kylie Johnson (124), and Natalyn Morris (106) all went 0-2.
In junior high action Towanda's Ailyn Dulaney (100) was second, while Brinlee Brink (162) took sixth.
Towanda will host Central Columbia on Tuesday with a 3 p.m. start time.
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PHOTO PROVIDED & MICHAEL BENJAMIN
