High School Wrestling: Kelso girls host, win Braided 64 Tournament (UPDATED)

Photo Gallery: Quartet of placers help Lassies claim team title; Rainier's Kiya Roe tops 105-pound bracket

Kelso’s Olivia Engel wrestlers in the championship match of The Braided 64 Tournament, Saturday, Jan. 10, at Kelso High School. The Lassies took the team title at their own event. / Photo by Benjamin Hendrickson for Blast Zone Media

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The Kelso wrestling team hosted The Braided 64 last weekend and came out on top of the team standings in what has become one of the largest girls-only events in the nation, if not the world.

A total of 108 teams descended upon Kelso High School on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 9-10, with mats and grapplers taking up nearly every square inch of available real estate on campus. The Kelso boys wrestling team was on hand to help keep things running smoothly, while athletes from all over the region battled it out on the mats.

— A Kelso wrestler earns a win during a match at The Braided 64 last weekend at Kelso High School. The Lassies were able to claim a team title with three individual placers no the podium. / Video by Ben Hendrickson for Blast Zone Media —

The Rainier Columbians were among the schools in attendance and even managed to put one of their own on top of the podium.

Other local schools in the mix included R.A. Long, Mark Morris, Woodland, Castle Rock, Kalama, Toutle Lake, and Ilwaco.

Castle Rock’s Taylor Kirby (bottom) does her best to flip Genevieve Daly of Mark Morris in a 120-pound match at The Braided 64 last weekend. Kirby went on to win the match by a score of 15-6. / Photo by Benjamin Hendrickson for Blast Zone Media —

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