Dymond Piper and Sam Zook each won individual titles for Oak Harbor at the boys sub-regional wrestling tournament Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5 and 6, at Stanwood High School.
The Wildcat pair will be joined by six teammates who qualified for the boys 3A regional meet at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, at Marysville-Pilchuck High School.
Both Oak Harbor girls who competed in the sub-regional last weekend at Bellingham High School finished second and will advanced to their regional meet for all classifications at 10 a.m. at Bellingham’s Squalicum High School Saturday.
The top four finishers in each weight class in both the boys and girls regional meets qualify for the state tournament.
In team scoring, the Wildcat boys placed fifth out of seven teams with 185 points. Top-ranked Arlington won with 392.5.
On the girls side, Oak Harbor was 11th out of 29 schools although only two Wildcats took part.
At the boys sub-regional, the first four places earned regional berths.
In addition to Piper (152 pounds) and Zook (285), Blake Servatius (second at 106), Garrett Stahl (fourth, 120), Michael Lym (second, 132), Zach Aketch (fourth, 145) and Nick Dugin (fourth, 170) advance.
Zion Gomez was fifth at 120 and will be the alternate.
Piper won 12-8 and 19-4 to reach the finals, where he defeated Everett’s Brett Alfred 19-7.
Zook, who is undefeated, recorded three consecutive pins to take his title.
Servatius and Lym also reached the finals
Third-seeded Servatius pinned two opponents (including the second seed in the semifinals) before losing 13-4 in the finals to Marysville-Pilchuck’s Cole Durie.
Lym won two decisions, 8-2 and 15-8, before losing to Arlington’s third-ranked Gavin Rork in the championship bout.
For the girls, Caitlin Woodworth (155) won by a pin and 8-2 and then lost 10-1 to fifth-ranked Leigh Lamay of Mount Vernon.
Sixth-ranked Meredith Bain (190) received two byes, recorded a pin and then lost by a fall to Lynden’s Thalia Veliz.
“We won matches with great fundamentals and body position,” coach Larry Falcon said.
Other Oak Harbor results at the sub-regional:
William Nickelson, 106: won 13-9; lost by fall; won 14-0; lost by fall.
Gomez, 113, fifth: lost by fall (to teammate Stahl); won 6-5; lost by fall; won 8-7.
Stahl, 113, fourth: won by fall; lost 17-11; won 12-2; lost 3-1.
Teyveyon Shaw, 120: last by fall; lost 17-0 (to teammate Caleb Fitzgerald).
Fitzgerald, 120: won 10-4; lost by fall; won 17-0; lost 8-0.
McBride, 126, third: won by fall; won by fall; lost by fall; won 20-5; won 11-8.
Lucas Nickelson, 126: won by fall; lost by fall; lost by fall.
Shingo Johnson, 132: lost by fall; lost by fall.
Chris Brooks, 138: lost by technical fall; lost by fall.
Trevor Vaughn, 138: lost 10-2; lost 6-1.
Aketch, 145, fourth: won by fall; lost 10-4; won 10-1; won 11-1; won 12-8; lost 3-1.
Joseph Field, 145: lost by fall; won by fall; lost 11-1 (to teammate Aketch).
Eriq Boler, 152: lost by fall; lost 6-5.
Martin Powers, 160: won by fall; lost by fall; lost 11-6.
Dugin, 170, fourth: won 10-7; lost 20-5; won by fall; lost by injury default.
Colton Burdick, 182; lost by fall; lost by fall.
Nate Mecom, 182: lost by fall; lost by injury default.
Ben Pierzchala, 190: lost by fall; lost by fall.
Isaiah Edmon, 220: lost by fall; lost by fall.
Hayden Campbell, 285: lost by fall; lost by fall.
(Oak Harbor’s Sam Zook, front, fights for an escape against Marysville Getchell’s Brett Engelman. Zook pinned Engelman to win the 285 championship. Photo by John Fisken.)