High School Sports

Defending state champion Josh Mitchell barely worked up a sweat while helping Mount Si win the KingCo 3A boys wrestling team championship Saturday at Liberty High School.

Mitchell, a 6-foot-3, 265-pound all-state lineman who signed a football letter of intent with Oregon State on Wednesday, finished off a pair of pins in 42 and 38 seconds to win the 285-pound title.

Ryley Absher (120) and Mitch Rorem (195) also won their weight classes as Mount Si (214.5 points) edged runner-up Mercer Island (209) and Bellevue (203.5) for the team crown.

Bellevue and Liberty each had four individual champs.

Liberty's Hamilton Noel, state runner-up last year at 152, won his final with a 47-second pin after advancing with a pin and a 14-1 major decision.

Wrestling

• In the KingCo 4A championships at Issaquah, the host Eagles got individual titles from Torre Eaton (106) and Almen Thorpe (132) and won the team title with 237 points to second-place Woodinville's 197.5. Woodinville had four champions — A.J. Dedios (120), Ryan Christensen (160), Jake Hollister (220) and Jason Burroughs (285).

• Tahoma crushed the SPSL North field at Kent-Meridian, sending 15 wrestlers to the finals and winning eight of 14 weight classes. There were four all-Tahoma championship matches. The Bears amassed 475 ½ points — more than twice as many as runner-up Kentwood (231). Joey Palmer, who won last year's state title at 125, won at 132 for Tahoma. Austin Perry (182) got a pin for the Bears in his final.

• Graham-Kapowsin sent eight wrestlers to title matches and won five of them on the way to the SPSL South championship at Curtis. The Eagles piled up 289 points. Beamer senior Ares Carpio, a state champion two years ago as a sophomore, improved to 20-0 with two technical falls and a major decision on his way to the 126-pound title.

• Cody Fulleton, headed to Dartmouth to play football, won the 285-pound championship and was one of six O'Dea champions as the Irish won the Metro League tournament at Chief Sealth. O'Dea (249 points) was followed by Bainbridge (204.5), Eastside Catholic (204) and Bishop Blanchet (203.5). Blanchet's Peter Johnson, a state runner-up last year, won at 195.

• Everett's Connor Boyce, a state runner-up last year, won at 170 pounds in the Northwest 3A subregional meet at Oak Harbor. Sedro-Woolley won the team title, followed by Mount Vernon, Oak Harbor, Everett and Glacier Peak. Oak Harbor's Joshua Crebbin (152), Glacier Peak's Sean Elledge (182) and Shorecrest's Ian Bolstad (285) won by pins in their finals.

• In the SPSL 3A championships at Auburn Mountainview, T.J. Cormier (195) and Colton Malek (220) won by pins in the finals as defending state champ Enumclaw outdistanced runner-up Decatur 427 points to 366. Lucas Somera, who earned a state title for the Hornets last year, won at 138. Enumclaw has won three of the past four state titles.

• Brandon Gilbertson (120), Steven Edson (126), Kean Legate (145), Ben Antush (170) and Paul Toala (285) got pins in the finals for Highline, leading the Pirates to the Seamount team championship.

• Cedarcrest rolled to the Cascade Conference meet championship, getting pins from Robby MacNair (285), Eli Gremmert (152) and Cody Paxman (150) in their championship matches. The Red Wolves won eight of 14 individual titles.