Winter Sports Roundup: Roe wins first State title for Rainier wrestling
Inside Stuff – Championship mat reports from the Oregon Country; plus 2A GSHL All-League bowlers
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High School Wrestling
Rainier’s Kiya Roe is the first female state champion in school history after winning the state championship in the 4A/3A/2A/1A girls 105-pound bracket at the Oregon wrestling tournament on Feb. 27 and 28 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland.
It was Roes fourth time to the finals, but her first time wearing green after transferring from Knappa to Rainier in the offseason.
Roe won by pin in the first two matches against Mazama’s Abigail Irish in the first round and Echo/Stanfield’s Braelyn Perry in the quarterfinals. And she won by pin against Sutherlin’s Annalee Candelaria in the semifinals and won in a 17-1 technical fall against Harrisburg’s Gracie Williams in the State championship match.
“(She) only surrendered a single point the entire tournament,” Rainier head coach Matt Hendricks said.
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