High schools get turn at Hub City Classic

Kingfisher’s second trip to Clinton in a week saw the Yellowjackets take eighth place at the high school version of the Hub City Classic wrestling tournament.

One week after the junior high squads competed in the Tornado Dome, the elder statesmen of the school got their chance and delivered three placers.

Gant Browning was third at 126 pounds and Brayden Kochenower also won bronze at 132.

The Jackets’ Braxton Shellstrom took fourth at heavyweight as KHS scored 66 total points.

Marlow won the team title with 269 points while Mustang was the runner-up at 203.

Cache was third with 160 points.

Browning’s lone loss to the tournament was a narrow 6-3 decision to Marlow’s Brayden Bowman in the semifinals.

The junior came back to pin Mustang’s Jayden Gracy in 4:36 for the bronze medal.

Kochenower was defeated by Marlow’s Brantz Batemen in their semifinal bout.

Batemen went on to win gold in the weight class.

Kochenower, meanwhile, rebounded to pin Julian Pina of Clinton in 3:19 for third place.

Prior to his loss, Kochenower had wins over Sabastien Ortega of Vernon (Tex.) and Creek Williams of Weatherford to earn his spot in the semifinals.

Browning had defeated Tristan Cash Cardenas of Clinton and Cody Sanchez of Geary - both by falls - to make his way into the semis.

Shellstrom also won two straight to begin his bracket competition.

He pinned Gavin Williams of Mangum in 5:44 and Sam Pritz of Mustang in 2:40.

He met up with Weatherford’s Avry Nailon in the semifinals.

Nailon pinned him in 2:43 and later won his championship bout.

Shellstrom then lost to Malachi Perez of Weatherford in the third-place match.

Ethan Waswo notched all of Cashion’s team points.

The Wildcats placed 20th overall as the freshman scored 12 points while taking sixth place at 190 pounds.

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Marlow 269 Mustang 203 Cache 160 Hinton 155.5 Clinton 151.5 Weatherford 149 Tonkawa 95 Kingfisher 66 Hobart 63 Marlow JV 50