Browning leads KHS at Hub City
Freshman wins 106 gold; one of six Yellowjackets to place at Clinton
KHS FRESHMAN Gant Browning, left, won the 106-pound championship last weekend at the Hub City Classic in Clinton. Junior Isaac Long, pictured in action against Cashion earlier this season, was one another of a half-dozen Jacket wrestlers to place in last
Despite taking a limited group of wrestlers, Kingfisher still managed to bring home sixth place last weekend from the 2021 Hub City Wrestling Tournament in Clinton.
Freshman Gant Browning took home the 106-pound title to lead KHS to 93 team points.
He was one of six Jackets to place in the tournament. Only seven competed for KHS over the weekend.
Browning won all four of his matches in the tournament’s smallest weight class.
That included pinning Marlow’s Lawson Knox at 4:56 of their match. Knox finished as runner-up.
Browning also pinned Cache’s Jenson Jones, Weatherford’s Creek Williams and Cache’s Conner Rodriguez in less than a minute during his march to the gold medal.
Rhylee Toepfer was close to giving the Jackets a pair of golds, but was knocked off 4-0 by Marlow’s Brayden Bowman in the 120-pound championship match.
Toepfer had knocked off Clinton’s Christian Bermea 8-6 in the opening round and then pinned Keenan Simpson of Marlow just 55 seconds into their semifinal match.
At 113 pounds, Dawson Garvin recovered from a semifinal loss to take home the bronze medal.
He pinned Woodward’s Julio Gomez at 1:24 of their thirdplace match.
Garvin opened the bracketwith a fall of Hinton’s Kolton Turner at 2:20 and then picked up a 5-3 decision against Weatherford’s Jaxon Klaassen.
Marlow’s Gehrig Furr bested Garvin in the semifinals before ultimately winning gold.
Cache’s Luke Hill beat Kingfisher’s Kole Lambert at 4:56 of their 126-pound semifinal before also going on to win the weight class.
The loss pushed Lambert to the consolation bracket where he finished with a pair of wins, including a 12-0 major decision against Cache’s Anthony Radke for fifth place.
Isaac Long dropped his first match of the 160-pound bracket before powering back for fifth.
He was knocked off by Marlow’s Ty Scott, 8-3, before storming back with four consecutive wins.
Three of those were by fall, including one at 4:56 of his fifth-place match against Marlow’s Kash Kern.
Senior Presten Coughlan was also defeated in his first match of the 138-poundbrack-et.
After dropping a 2-1 decision to Marlow’s Trey Southerland, Coughlan won two straight matches before losing to Southerland again in the fifth-place match.
Marlow was the runaway winner in the team standings with 308.5 points.
Clinton, Weatherford and Cache battled it out for runner-up.
Clinton and Weatherford eventually tied with 144 points each. Cache was one point back.
Woodward took fifth place with four more points than KHS.