Gliem sisters lead Baxter girls at Centerville, North Tama

CENTERVILLE — Zoey Gliem and Johnelle Gliem each won twice by fall to lead the Baxter girls wrestling team at the Centerville Girls Scramble on Thursday.

Three Bolts scored 21 points and finished eighth in the 12-team field.

Albia’s 10 wrestlers scored 137.5 to win the tournament easily. The Lady Demons had five bracket winners and five second-place finishes.

Van Buren (55) edged East Union (54.5) for second and the rest of the top five included Chariton (46) and Moravia (27). The Bolts were just six points out of fifth.

Zoey Gliem and Johnelle Gliem each finished third at 140 and 145 pounds, respectively, while Malayla Hurd was the runner-up at 235. Hurd was 0-2 for the day.

Zoey Gliem (12-10) was 2-2 with two pins and Johnelle Gliem (14-9) finished 2-1 with two pins. Johnelle Gliem was 1-1 against Van Buren’s Lexie Wiley but won the third-place match.

Bolts finish fifth at North Tama Redhawk Invitational

TRAER — The Gliem sisters combined for five wins and five pins and both Zoey and Johnelle Gliem were second at their weights during the North Tama Redhawk Invitational on Saturday.

The Bolts scored 39 points with their three wrestlers. They were five points out of fourth and 16 back of third.

Host North Tama won the tournament with 114 points and BCLUW-SH was the runner-up with 99.5. Janesville (55), Union Community (44), Baxter (39), Tripoli (22), Meskwaki Settlement School (17) and BGM (4) completed the eight-team field.

The only teams with more than four wrestlers were North Tama and BCLUW-SH and they led the way with four and three champions, respectively.

Zoey Gliem was 2-1 with two pins at 140, Johnelle Gliem finished 3-1 with three pins at 145 and Hurd placed third and went 0-2 at 235.