C-M girls finish 10th, Baxter 26th at Williamsburg Girls Invitational

WILLIAMSBURG — Three of the six wrestlers in the Colfax-Mingo girls’ lineup finished in the top three of their respective weights at the Williamsburg Girls Invitational on Monday.

Emma Cook won her bracket at 235 pounds, Lily Webster was the runner-up at 100 and Devan Chadwick’s lone loss came to a state-ranked wrestler in Class 2A.

Baxter’s top finisher was Johnelle Gliem in seventh, but the Bolts scored 14 points and placed 26th in the 29-team field. Colfax-Mingo was 10th with 86 points.

The only two teams in the top 10 which had fewer than eight wrestlers were West Delaware (88) and Colfax-Mingo in ninth and 10th, respectively.

Sixth-place Independence and 10th-place Colfax-Mingo were separated by only 12 points.

South Tama County won the tournament with 184.5 points. East Buchanan (179.5), Vinton-Shellsburg (169), Mount Vernon (136.5) and Benton Community (103) completed the top five.

Class 1A No. 6 Cook (20-2) finished 3-0 with three pins at 235. She had two first-period falls.

Class 1A No. 6 Webster (21-2) was 2-1 with two pins at 100. She lost 6-3 to fifth-ranked Kenedee Helscher of Wapello.

Chadwick (19-4) was 3-1 with three pins at 110. Two of those pins came in the first period and her lone loss was 7-0 to 2A No. 12 Sophia Hurley of Independence.

Hadley Millang (20-6) placed eighth at 145. She was 4-3 with four pins and two first-period falls. Allison Minteer was 1-2 with one pin at 105 and Brianna Freerksen (13-8) finished 0-2 at 130.

Gliem was seventh at 155 for the Bolts. She finished 2-2 with two pins. Zoey Gliem also was 2-2 with one pin at 145 and Malaya Hurd placed eighth but was 0-3 at 235.