Wrangell's Liana Carney (top) throws Mt. Edgecumbe's Bernadette John at the Brandon Pilot Invitational held at Thunder Mountain High School in Juneau on Saturday. Carney won the match in a pin.
Wrangell's Ethan Blatchley (right) tries to keep Sitka's Derek Hammack from escaping out of bounds at the Saturday wrestling meet.
Wrangell's Elias Decker (right) grapples against Ketchikan's Dyliin Kealiinohomoku-Salcedo on Saturday. Decker won with a pin.
Wrangell's Rowen Wiederspohn (right) controls Mt. Edgecumbe's Martin Brown in their wrestling match Saturday.
Wrangell's Randy Churchill (right) tries to break away from Mt. Edgecumbe's Emilio Mangrobang.
Wrangell's Ethan Blatchley (top) spins around on teammate Steven Bales as they compete against each other at the Brandon Pilot Invitational held at Thunder Mountain High School in Juneau on Saturday. Blatchley won the match.
Wrangell's Liana Carney (top) controls Mt. Edgecumbe's Alexis Evon at the meet on Saturday. Carney won the match in a pin.
Wrangell's Lilian Younce (top) wrestles against Mt. Edgecumbe's Trinity Pitka on Saturday. Wrangell's Assistant Coach Jack Carney is in the background.
Wrangell's Ryan Rooney (top) controls Thunder Mountain's Eric Tipton at the Brandon Pilot Invitational held at Thunder Mountain High School in Juneau on Saturday. Rooney won the match by pin.
The Wrangell Wolves High School wrestling team took second place in their first match of the season. The team traveled to Juneau to compete Friday and Saturday in the Brandon Pilot Invitational at Thunder Mountain High School, where they wrestled against five other Southeast teams.
At the end of the tournament, the Wolves had tallied 74 points, behind only Juneau's Thunder Mountain at 84 points.
"We whooped everybody except for Thunder Mountain,"Assistant Coach Jack Carney said Monday.
Individually, several Wolves wrestlers won their weight divisions. Liana Carney, Ryan Rooney and Lily Younce took first place in their divisions both days of the competition, coach Carney said. Rowen Wiederspohn took first in Friday's competition.
"You got to remember that a lot of these kids had the minimum amount of practices they needed to go,"Carney said, adding that he is excited to see what the team could pull off as the season continues.
Other teams at the tournament were Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe.
The tournament is named in honor of Brandon Pilot, a Juneau freshman wrestler who died in a car accident in 2000.
The Wolves are scheduled host a tournament Friday and Saturday, but it will depend on what teams can make the trip to town. High School Activities Director Trisa Rooney said wrestling is tentatively set to begin 6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday. The event and times will depend on what teams are able to travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"With our city mandate of having to have PCR (Coronavirus) tests within 72 hours of getting here, we aren't sure what teams can do that,"Rooney said in an email.
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