The Salmon Arm Secondary Wrestling Team showed their stuff during the Zone Wrestling Championships held at SAS’s Jackson campus on Saturday, Feb. 16.
Schools attending the meet included: Princess Margaret, Westsyde, Pen High, St. Ann’s, Norkam, Mount Boucherie, Valleyview, Kamloops Christian, Sa-Hali Secondary and Vernon Secondary.
On the boys side, Salmon Arm finished first in the zones with 72 points.
Westsyde finished second with 37 points and St. Ann’s was third with 34 points. The girls team did not place, but Shay-lyn Steiger and Jena Cote both did well.
Overall it was a well-attended meet with some 67 wrestlers taking part.
Individual results were as follows:
In the Boys 38-kg category, Colin Robinson placed first.
The Boys 48-kg category saw Cole Swetlikoe in third place.
Ken Kosowick placed first in the Boys 54-kg category.
In the Boys 57- kg category, Derek Shogren placed second, followed by Braden Chamberlain in third place and fourth place was a tie between Jacob Fabrie and Arya Javdani.
Adam Fiebelkorn placed fourth in the Boys 63-kg division, while in the Boys 66- kg category, Micah Gunn placed second.
Fourth place went to Jacob Dies in the Boys 70-kg category.
In the Boys 74-kg division, Cody Gulka placed second, while Andrew Loza was fourth.
Nick Ough placed third in the Boys 78- division, while Shelby Meikle was injured in that same category.
Jacob Ashton placed second in the Boys 84- kg division.
For the girls, Shay-Lynn Steiger placed first in the Girls 40-kg category, and Jenna Cote placed second in the Girls 54-kg division.
“The team did very well and we are impressed with their attitude on and off the mat. This is a first-class group of students who we would take anywhere,” said co-coach Richard Sweet.
The wrestlers who finished first to fourth are eligible to travel to Duncan for the provincials from Feb. 28 to March 1.
