Sheppard leads KHS pack at Hub City Classic

Kingfisher had a pair of medalists in finishing seventh in the Hub City Classic Wrestling Tournament last weekend.

Jaxon Sheppard was the 132-pound runner-up and Mason Alig took bronze at 175 pounds inside the Tornado Dome in Clinton.

They led the Jackets to 89 points in the tournament.

Marlow won the tournament title with 299 points while the host Red Tornadoes were the runners-up with 202.5. Hinton placed third out of 21 total teams with 199.

Cashion was ninth with its 57 points.

A sophomore, Sheppard was the lone Jacket to reach the finals. He was downed by Marlow’s Tommy Miller in the championship match.

Prior to that, Sheppard pinned Mangum’s Carl Allgood in 2:58 and Weatherford’s Kreyson Ramey in 2:47 to reach the semis.

The semifinal match saw him out-class Tristan Cash Cardenas of Clinton in a 15-1 major decision.

A senior, Alig picked up a pin at 1:19 of his quarterfi nal match against Keagan Tabon of Mustang and then lost a narrow 11-9 decision to Hobart’s Eli Frank in the semifinal.

But Alig came back with two straight wins, the first being a pin of Clinton’s Jackson Brown in 2:50 and then winning his own narrow decision, 6-4, over Zaner Furrow of Hinton in the third-place match.

Fellow senior Ryker Long was fourth at 215 pounds.

Long got pins over Kolten Baker of Elk City and Shooter Mayabb of Hobart to reach the semifinals.

There he lost 5-0 to Gage Hixon of Marlow before coming back to down Dayton Carey of Anadarko 10-4 in the consolation semifinal.

Long was defeated by Weatherford’s Austin Burkeen in his third-place match.

Another senior, Robert Barnett, placed fifth at 190 pounds.

Barnett lost his quarterfi nal, but came back with a pair of consolation bracket pins over Desmond Williams of Western Heights and Judd Underwood of Hobart.

Barnett then lost in the consolation semifinal before beating Gunnar Smith of Weatherford with a pin at 1:27 of their fifth-place match.

Cashion was led by Cale Browning’s silver medal at 113 pounds.

Browning pinned Western Heights’ Jakoby Woerne in 44 seconds, then got a 16-5 major decision over Mason Mitchell of Mangum to reach the finals.

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scored eight.

The Raiders fell to 14-7 with the loss.

Justin Choate of Marlow managed to pin Browning at 5:39 of that gold medal match.

The Wildcats’ Carlos Martinez was third at 165 pounds.

He pinned Ryker Smith of Weatherford in 1:17 before losing to Hinton’s Kyle Harrall in the semifinal.

Martinez came back to beat Luke Tacker of Hobart 6-2 and then pin Tonkawa’s Hayden Grell in 4:50 to earn his bronze.

Matthew Stockton was the fifth-place heavyweight.

After losing his quarterfinal in an ultimate tie-breaker, Stockton got a 14-5 major decision over Kingfisher’s T.J. Washington and then pinned Stone Perkins of Mustang in 49 seconds.

After dropping his consolation semifinal, Stockton grabbed fifth with a 10-3 decision over Mustang’s Julio Vera.