Gators take 4th at Viking Invitational

The Gator wrestling team traveled to Treutlen Co. Friday to wrestling in the Viking Invitational and placed 4^th out of 17 teams competing.  The Gators gave up 5 weight classes and still managed to bring home hardware scoring a total of 207 points behind West Laurens (1^st place – 386.5), Toombs Co. (2^nd place – 242.5), and East Laurens (3^rd place – 220.5).  The gators had 5 wrestlers place in the tournament: Zy Grant (10^th grade) 3^rd place, John Williams now 35 – 0 (12^th grade) 1^st place, Isaac King (12^th grade) 2^nd place, David Shavers (12^th grade) 1^st place, and Jacob Allen (11^th grade) 2^nd place.

106 – Zy Grant (3^rd place): 5 – 2 (win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; loss – pin; loss – pin; win – pin)

113 – Ware forfeit

120 – John Williams (1^st place): 7 – 0 (win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win 11 – 3; win

11 – 4)

126 – Ware forfeit

132 – Stephen Edwards: 2 – 3 (loss – pin; loss TF 22 – 5; win 2 – 1; win 10 – 7; loss – pin)

138 – Ware forfeit

145 – Jaquan Barefield: 3 – 2 (loss – pin; win – pin; loss – pin; win – pin; win – pin)

152 – Isaac King (2^nd place): 6 – 1 (win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win TF 19 – 4; loss

TF 15 – 0)

160 – Demarrio Buckhalter: 4 – 1 (win – pin; loss – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win – forfeit)

170 – David Shavers (1^st place): 7 – 0 (win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win 10 – 3; win

4 – 1)

182 – Jacob Allen (2^nd place): 6 – 1 (win – forfeit; win – pin; win – pin; win – pin; win 19 – 5; win – pin;

loss 6 – 4)

195 – Caron Taylor: 1 – 4 (loss – pin; loss – pin; win – pin; loss – pin; loss – pin)

220 – Ware forfeit

HWT – Ware forfeit