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Kotzebue, South pick up wrestling titles

Houston's Aaron Drake and Nome's Emery Booshu extended their winning streaks Saturday with championship-round victories at the Lancer Smith Memorial wrestling tournament in Palmer.

Drake, wrestling at 126 pounds, ran his record to 29-0 by stopping Greg Shack of South with an 8-6 sudden victory.

Booshu moved to 27-0 on the season with an 8-3 decision over South's Rami Pellumbi in the 145-pound finale.

Team titles went to South in Class 4A competition and Kotzebue in Class 123A competition.

South edged Colony by two points, 195.5-193.5. Kotzebue coasted to its victory, scoring 203 points to easily top runnerup Nikiski, which scoreed 97.5.

South advanced six wrestlers to the finals but produced only one champion -- Gavin Alvarado at 132 pounds. Colony, which had three in the finals, produced the 160-pound champion in Robert Haan.

Kotzebue boasted three individual champs, more than any other school. Gavin Maslen won at 113 pounds, Zach Haviland at 170 and Josh Roetman at 182 for the Huskies.

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Lancer Smith Memorial

Class 123A

1) Kotzebue 203.0; 2) Nikiski 97.5; 3) Bethel 90.0; 4) Houston 81.0; 5) Nome 75.0; 6) Dillingham 40.5; 7) Anchorage Christian 36.0; 7) Homer 36.0; 9) Thorne Bay 33.0; 10) Glennallen 31.0; 11) Cordova 28.0; 12) Grace Christian 27.0; 13) Holy Rosary Academy 23.5; 14) Valdez 20.0; 15) Noatak 9.0; 16) Unalaska 6.0; 16) Voznesenka 6.0; 18) Quinhagak 2.0.

Class 4A

1) South 195.5; 2) Colony 193.5; 3) Service 135.0; 4) Soldotna 128.5; 5) Wasilla 106.5; 6) West 79.0; 7) Kenai 71.0; 8) Chugiak 66.5; 9) Lathrop 62.5; 10) East 48.5; 11) Palmer 46.0; 12) West Valley 43.0; 13) North Pole 36.0; 14) Eagle River 33.0; 15) Bartlett 29.0.

Final round

98 pounds — Micah Ee (Lathrop) d. Robert Zimmerman (Colony), 10-4.

106 -- Jared Virgin (Glennallen) d. Tristen Evan (Bethel), 4-1.

113 -- Gavin Maslen (Kotzebue) d. Austin Craig (Soldotna), 6-2.

120 -- Seth Hutchison (Soldotna) d. Gage Hoffman (Bethel), 5-4.

126 --Aaron Drake (Houston) SV-1 Greg Shack (South), 8-6.

132 --Gavin Alvarado (South) d. Michael Lucas (Holy Rosary), 8-1.

138 -- Leif Erikson (Nome) d. Noah Ottum (South), 10-4.

145 -- Emery Booshu (Nome) d. Rami Pellumbi (South), 8-3.

152 -- Ellery Steffensen (Kenai) p. Zachary Ritchie (South), 1:47.

160 --Robert Haan (Colony) p. Chris Weidner (West), 2:47.

170 --Zach Haviland (Kotzebue) m.d. D.J. Morrow (Wasilla), 10-1.

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182 -- Josh Roetman (Kotzebue) p. Abraham Correa-Medina (South), 3:57.

195 --Andrew Gold (East) d. Drew Nanouk (Kotzebue), 8-5.

220 -- Luke Johnson (Nikiski) p. Jesse Nelson (Chugiak), 2:30.

285 -- Nicholas Stevens (Service) d. Mitchell Daigle (Colony), 7-0.

Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

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