North Star Girls Wrestle To Fourth Place,

IWAs Wehrmann Repeats 100 Freestyle

By Jim Wieners

If it was not for the addition of Girls Wrestling as a high school varsity sport in Missouri, the only highlight in Boys Wrestling was in Class Four as McCluer North sophomore Ibrahim Ameer (34-10), the only Boys’ medallist with a sixth-place finish at 171 pounds
However, McCluer North Girls Wrestling, with only eight on their roster, sent three to state, Feb. 14-16 at Mizzou Arena on the University of Missouri in Columbia,. In addition, the Stars took home a fourth place trophy.
McCluer North scored 49 points more than any other Ferguson-Florissant and School District Boys or Girls Teams combined. About 40 more than the highest point total from any boys team, McCluer North with nine. Lebanon, with 87 points, is the first Gils State Team Champion, runner up Lafayette (81) is the only team with more than one individual champion (two), and Ste. Genevieve High is third with 56.5.
Sophomore Natalie Schaljo is the highest Girls finisher for the Stars, second place at 131. Schaljo (28-4) lost by pin fall to Quincy Glendenning, which helped Lebanon win state. Schaljo had first-round byes in District Two (at Fort Zumwalt North) and
State, won District Two with pins over Sophia Pinkstaff, Columbia-Hickman (1:37), Kayla McGenns, Wentzville-Timberland (2:00) and Jessie Deane, Fort Zumwalt West (4:38) She got to the Championship Match with pins over Emily Light, St. James (2:48) and Kaylie Dow, Plattsburg (2:44)
Junior Paige Folkner (33-4) finished in fourth place at 121 and senior Kyra Perry (28-7) made it to Feb. 16 but fell short of a medal with a fourth-round wrestle back loss by fall to Ashlynn Leochner, Lebanon.
GIRLS SWIMMING — Incarnate Word Academy junior Ellie Wehrmann won her second consecutive Class One State title in the 100-yard Freestyle Feb. 16 at the St Peters Rec-Plex Wehrmann broke her own Class One record of 51.73 second she set a year ago with by swimming in the Feb. 15 preliminaries in 51.69 seconds. In the finals, she won the title by swimming in 51.93 seconds.
Wehrmann fell short of repeating in the 200-yard Freestyle as she took second place (1:52.62) to senior Paige Mitchell (1:51.16) of Class One State Team Champion Ladue-Horton Watkins. Senior Emily Schroeder took second place in the 200-yard Individual Medley (2:10.31) and sixth place in the 100 Freestyle (54.17 seconds). IWA finished fourth in the 20-yard Freestyle Relay (1:42.12) and sixth in the 200-yard Medley Relay (1:54.17) as the Red Knights finished seventh in team standings (123 points).

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