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Gilreath's fourth finals
appearance nets his second title |
LHSAA State
Wrestling Tournament |
Division III - 160
Pounds |
August 20th, 2023| Written by:
Staff Writer |
Place |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
5th |
6th |
Podium |
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Name |
Michael Gilreath |
Jerome Bridges |
Luke Fontenot |
Jason Brown |
Aidan Mulholland |
Mason Britai |
School |
Evangel |
John Curtis |
Basile |
SHW |
Hannan |
St. Mary's |
Seed |
1 |
NS |
2 |
1 |
4 |
8 |
Record |
69-8 |
13-11 |
24-11 |
24-11 |
20-23 |
4-19 |
Class |
11 |
11 |
12 |
12 |
10 |
6 |
In nine tournaments before the state championships Evangel junior Michael
Gilreath, a 2021 Division II state champion and a runner-up in 2020 (as an
eighth-grader) and 2022, only won the ARK-LA-TEX Southern. He placed
second twice, third four times and fourth twice. He did have more pins
(50) than anyone else in the state, Gilreath, though, had a loss to Basile
senior Luke Fontenot, which explains why Fontenot was seeded one rung better
than Gilreath. Jason Brown of Shaw started the season at 195 lbs. and did
not compete at 160 until the state championships. He lost nine matches and
had nowhere near the number of matches Gilreath had, but he was still seeded
first. Gilreath avenged his earlier loss to Fontenot with a semifinals
fall in 5:25.
It would not be the top-seeded Brown he met in the finals, though.
Brown was upset in the semifinals by John Curtis' unseeded junior Jerome Bridges
9-3. Bridges record entering the tournament was 11-10. He only
placed in one tournament, and that was the Bulldog Brawl Invitational in
Vancleave, Mississippi. Yet he defeated Brown, a 2022 third-placer,
handily enough.
Bridges was no match for Gilreath, though. This was his fourth LHSAA
state championships, and he had been in the finals in each of them, winning one
in 2021 and losing only by a point, 16-15, in 2020. Gilreath scored a
takedown after 1:15 had elapsed, and 15 second later he had his second state
championship.
Quarterfinals
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(1) Jason Brown (SHW) pinned (8) Isac Tamborella (FSH) in 4:45 |
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Jerome Bridges (JC) defeated (4) Aiden
Mulholland (HAN) 9-4 |
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(3) Michael Gilreath (EVA) pinned (2) Luke Fontenot (BAS) in 5:25 |
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Semifinals
Jerome Bridges (JC) defeated (1) Jason Brown (SHW) 9-3 |
(3) Michael Gilreath (EVA) pinned (2) Luke
Fontenot (BAS) in 5:25 |
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Championship Consolation Rounds
(2) Luke Fontenot (BAS) defeated 1) Jason Brown (SHW) 2-0
to place 3rd |
(4) Aiden Mulholland (HAN) pinned (6) Mason
Britain (StM) in 3:58 to place 5th |
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Finals
(3) Michael Gilreath of Evangel pinned Jerome
Bridges of John Curtis in 1:29 |
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