Outstanding Lowerweight: Mason Pengilly School: Porterville Grade: Junior Weight class: 120 The résumé: One of only three wrestlers in California to end the year without a loss (St. John Bosco-Bellflower 132-pounder Aaron Pico and Clovis 285-pounder Nick Nevills were the others). The state’s top-ranked 120-pounder finished a 42-0, 16-pin season with a 5-3 triumph over [...]

Outstanding Upperweight: Nick Nevills School: Clovis Grade: Junior Weight class: 285 The résumé: Completed arguably the most dominant season of any wrestler in California by pinning Los Alamitos’ Alex Redmond in 2:15 for his second state title in three years. The victory put the finishing touch on a season that saw Nevills go 53-0 with [...]

Led by Gabriel Gonzalez’s fifth-place finish at 195 pounds, Washington captured the Small Schools team title at Saturday’s CIF State Wrestling Championships in Bakersfield. The Panthers scored 30 points, two more than runner-up Calvary Chapel-Santa Ana, a private school and seven-time state overall champion. The title is for schools with enrollments of fewer than 1,000 [...]

BAKERSFIELD — Lemoore High’s Isaiah Martinez secured his place among the greatest wrestlers in state history. But that wasn’t the extent of Central Section accomplishments during the finals of the CIF State Wrestling Championships. Porterville’s Mason Pengilly capped a perfect season, Central’s Adrian Camposano became his school’s first state champion and Lemoore’s Sean Williams got [...]

BAKERSFIELD — By the time Adrian Salas and Nick Nevills took California high school wrestling’s grandest stage, Clovis High already had been in celebration mode for several hours. So Salas and Nevills simply provided the finishing touches — winning the 182- and 285-pound crowns, respectively — as the Cougars ran away with a third consecutive [...]

Lemoore 160-pounder Isaiah Martinez and Clovis High are poised to cash in on rare trifectas this weekend at the CIF State Wrestling Championships. Martinez seeks to become the 17th three-time champion in the event’s 41-year history, while the Cougars can match an effort only they and Calvary Chapel-Santa Ana have achieved before with a third [...]