GHSA wrestling: Central's Lamar to go for state title on Thursday; Baldwin’s Mullis, Northside’s Mullis advance in girls
By Michael A. Lough
The Sports Report
centralgasports@gmail.com
The decreased wrestling season has decreased almost nothing for Adam Lamar.
The Central wrestling standout finished fourth last year in the GHSA state traditional wrestling tournament in the 285-pound weight class, losing in the semifinal and then having to forfeit in the match for third place.
Lamar gets a chance to erase that memory and stand on the top step of the podium when he wrestles for the state championship Thursday night at the Macon Coliseum.
Lamar improved to 45-0 with three pins on Wednesday, in 1:32, 1:30, and 3:04.
He’ll take on Jaxx Knight of Sonoraville in the finals. Both had first-round byes. Knight (18-1) went on to win by falls in 1:37, 5:51, and 3:06, two seconds off of Lamar’s semifinal win pin.
Sonoraville won state team titles in 2019 and 2020.
Lamar’s teammate Ja”vontez Moss (126) is still alive, as is Mary Persons’ Elijah Shannon.
The Wednesday afternoon session was girls only, with championships and consolations for AA and A coming Wednesday night.
Class 4A goes Thursday morning and Class 6A in the afternoon, with 3A and girls in the evening with consolations and finals. Class 5A is Friday morning and 7A in the afternoon, with 4A and 6A in the evening with consolations and finals.
Saturday, Classes 5A and 7A finish up, starting at 9 a.m.
In girls action, Baldwin’s Catherine Mullis at 132 and Northside’s Beyonce McColumn at 172 are in the finals. The girls section is all one classification.
Still alive: Veterans’ Evelyn Kissell at 112 and Samantha Godfrey at 197, plus Perry’s Azariah Mobley (162) and Lamar County’s Lea English (172) are still alive.
Veterans is tied for fourth with 67 points, behind Chastatee’s 99 points. Baldwin is tied for 18th.
Wednesday’s Central Georgia results
Class 3A
Central
126-Ja’Vontez Moss: bye; won 17-16; lost 13-8, won 20-7
145-Sa’Viun Brown: won by fall, :52; lost by fall, 2:17; won by fall, 2:19; lost by fall, 7-4
160-Javion Williams: lost 16-10; bye; lost by fall, 3:06
170-Jalen Darden: lost by DQ, 26-3; bye; lost 13-9
195-Walter Hawthorne: lost by fall, 1:23; bye; won by fall, 3:11; won by fall, 4:37; lost by fall, 5:14
285-Adam Lamar: bye; won by fall, 1:32; won by fall, 1:30; won by fall, 3:04
Mary Persons
106-Michael Whitfield: bye; lost by fall, 2:43; won by fall, 2:37; lost 9-6
126-Dylan Ivey: won byfall, 1:20; lost 13-0; lost 9-4 SV-1
138-Charley Ryles: won 14-12; lost by fall, 4:45; won 9-7; won 6-4; lost 17-5
152-Elijah Shannon: won by fall, 1:19; won by fall, 2:53; lost 7-1; won 6-4 SV-1
170-Tatton Pitts: lost by fall, 2:56; bye; lost by fall, 5:52
182-Seth Greenway: lost 11-4; bye; won by fall, 1:05; lost by fall, 3:50
Upson-Lee
106-Russell Kaczmarek: bye; lost 17-0; won by fall, :49; lost 6-0
113-Gage Geldbach: bye; lost by fall, :33; lost by fall, 1:39
120-Scotty Nix: bye; lost by fall, :51; lost by fall, 1:23
138-Wesley Goins: lost by fall, 1:32; bye; lost by fall, 1:39
195-Colton Greene: lost by fall, 2:47; bye; lost by fall, 3:13
220-Kaleb Williams: lost by forfeits
285-Trenton Manning: lost by fall, :53; bye; won by fall, 1:07; won by fall, 1:21; lost by fall, :39
Girls
Class 6A
Northside
102-MaCayla Moody: lost by forfeits
112-Penny Jackson: bye; lost 15-11; won 5-4; won by fall, 5:44; won 11-7; lost to Evelyn Kissell, Veterans, 2-0
162-Beyonce McColumn: won by fall, :12; won by fall, 1:01; won by fall, 2:18
172-Bailey Parker: lost 14-111; bye; lost by fall, :58
Class 5A
Jones County
112-Mary Childs: lost by fall, :41; bye; lost by fall, 1:30
142-Casey Flynn: bye; lost by fall, :16; bye; lost by fall, :59
152-Vanessa Rechterman: won by fall, 1:03; lost by fall, 3:29; lost by fall, 1:15
Warner Robins
142-Lee Smith: bye; lost by fall, 5:07; won by fall, 1:55; won by fall, :54; lost by DQ
Veterans
102-Rachel Whetstone: won by fall, 3:22; won by fall, :57; lost by fall, :41; lost by fall, 5:41
112-Evelyn Kissell: won by fall, 4:00; lost by fall, :51; won by fall, 4:49; won by fall, 2:34; won by fall, 1:02; beat Penny Jackson, Northside, 2-0; won by fall, 3:02
122-Alexis Andrade: won by fall, 1:02; won 8-7; lost by fall, 1:46; won by fall, :17; won by fall, 3:28; lost by fall, 3:48
132-Clara Maddox: bye; won by fall, 1:32; lost by fall, 1:50; lost 8-2
142-Riauna Lugo: lost by forfeits
152-Lexi Wilt: lost by fall, :27; won by fall, 1:24; won by fall, 2:43; lost by fall, 4:35
162-Lillian Clark: bye; won by fall, 3:31; lost by fall, 5:07; lost by fall, 1:05
197-Samantha Godfrey: won by fall, 5:41; won by fall, :30; lost by by fall, 2:17, in semifinal
225-Laila Roland: bye; lost by fall, :44; bye; won by forfeit; lost by fall, 2:58
Class 4A
Baldwin
132-Catherine Mullis: bye; won by fall, 2:45; won by fall, :17; won 4-1; won by fall over Brooke Ligon, Alexander, 5:13, in semifinal
Perry
102-Olivia Higley: won by fall, 1:22; lost by fall, 1:39; won by fall over Kaitlyn Brown, Dodge County, 3:50; lost by fall, 2:44
132-Savannah Kerr: lost by fall, 2:58; bye; lost by fall, 1:02
162-Azariah Mobley: bye; lost by fall, 4:31; bye; won by fall, 1:16; won by fall, 5:07
172-Porshauna Draines: lost by fall, 5:23; lost by fall, 1:18
225-Caitlin Mitchell: lost by forfeits
Class AA
Dodge County
102-Kaitlyn Brown: lost by fall, 2:34; bye; lost by fall, 3:50
152-Jocelyn White: lost by fall, 1:05; lost by fall, 2:32
Lamar County
112-Mariyah Zavala: bye; lost by fall, :27; lost by fall, 3:46
112-Brewanna Turner: lost by fall, :55; bye; won by fall, 2:34; lost by fall, 1:39
142-Arianna Williams: won by fall, :54; lost by fall, :31; won by fall, :22; lost by fall, 1:56
142-Kathleen English: bye; lost 16-3; bye; lost by fall, 5:22
152-Elizabeth Schriber: lost by fall, 3:38; bye; lost by fall, :27
162-Autumn Vaughan: lost by fall, 1:38; bye; lost by fall, :51
172-Lea English: lost by fall, 3:25; won by fall over Porshauna Draines, Perry, 1:18; won by fall, 1:45
225-Heather St. Clair: bye; lost by fall, :23; bye; lost by fall, :56
Putnam County
122-Alexandra Morris: bye; lost by fall, 5:44; lost by fall, 1:15
142-Breshyia Farley: won by fall, 2:41; lost by fall, 3:04; won by fall, :49; won by forfeit; won by fall, :53; lost by fall, :19