Girls Wrestling takes 11th at Sharpsville Tournament
North Allegheny traveled to Sharpsville High School on Saturday to take part in the Sharpsville Tournament. The Tigers had a fourth-place finisher, two fifth-place finishers along with a sixth place finish. With all of that, NA finished in 11th place as a team in the tournament out of 32 teams.
Alex Gosnell made the deepest run for North Allegheny coming in fourth place. Starting in the quarterfinals, Gosnell would drop her first match before bouncing back to defeat Sophia Wilson of Mentor (OH) 3-0 in the consolation semifinals. Gosnell would face off with Zahara Al-Zamly in the third place match, where she would fall by decision to end up in fourth place.
Maya Scott and Heidi Radford finished the day in fifth place in their respective weight classes.
Scott got the day going by defeating Cecilia Ward of Sharpsville by major decision. Scott would fall in the semifinals and consolation semifinals before meeting Ward again in the fifth place match, where Scott won again, this time by a score of 6-3.
Radford got a pin in her quarterfinal match before dropping a 2-0 decision in the semifinals. Radford would fall in the consolation semifinals before winning by injury default in the fifth place match.
Ava Anthony was a sixth-place finisher for the Tigers. Anthony won by fall in her first two matches before being defeated in the semifinals and consolation semifinals. Anthony would take on Carma Forty of Knoch in the fifth place match where she fell 7-0 to end up in sixth place.
Lorelei Bungard ended up in eighth place on the day. Bungard had a very high scoring opening match defeating Olivia Chase of Conneaut (OH) 17-14. Bungard would fall in the quarterfinals before going 1-1 in the consolation bracket to get to the seventh place match. Bungard would see Chase again, but Chase would get the better of Bungard this time, putting her in eighth place.
Shanmukha Gannavaram, Alexis Hartshorn, Aleigha Revelent and Carly O’Connell all picked up wins for the Tigers.
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North Allegheny returns to action on Wednesday when they head to Butler to take on the Golden Tornado at 6:00 p.m. This match will be broadcast on the North Allegheny Sports Network.
