New Palestine High School

The New Palestine girls wrestling team had four wrestlers place at Saturday's IHSGW State Finals at Kokomo Memorial Gym, led by senior Sydney DeLois, who posted her second consecutive third-place finish. DeLois finished third at 125. Ella Morris was sixth at 145. June Wagner-Gilbert (135) and Ezra Wagner (130) both placed seventh. DeLois won her first match 5-3 over Prairie Heights' Christian Lewis, then pinned Plainfield's Ariana Quazeda in 1:29. In the semifinal, she lost by fall in 4:53 to West Lafayette's Rose Kaplan, the eventual state champion. DeLois then won by injury default in the third-place match over Southport's K'yla Johnson. DeLois was the only person on the day to take Kaplan into the second period. DeLois finishes her senior season with a 24-4 record. At 145, Morris finished sixth. She pinned Portage's Brianna Palmer in 4:34 in the first round, then lost by fall in 3:54 to Franklin's Jazlinn Diaz-Avalos, the eventual state runner-up. In the wrestlebacks, she pinned Warren Central's Akilah Rusunuguko-Taylor in 1:54, then dropped the fifth-place match to Rochester's Laine Peppler by fall in 4:04. Morris finishes the season 35-9. At 130, Wagner won her first-round match by fall in 2:55 over North Miami's Lindsey Pugh. She then fell in 1:01 to Kankakee Valley's Lillyl Culbreth in the quarterfinals, then was pinned by Indian Creek's Hanna Seitzinger in 1:28 in the wrestlebacks. She pinned Attica's Joslyn Barnett in 1:56 in the seventh-place match. She finishes the year 31-8. At 135, Wagner-Gilbert pinned Valparaiso's Karlie Mann in 3:05 in the first round. In the quarterfinal, she was pinned by Jeffersonville's Sian Rogers in 5:48. Wagner-Gilbert then dropped a 5-0 decision to Mishawaka's Kaylee Smith in the wrestlebacks before pinning Penn's Haylee Sells in 3:34 in the seventh-place match. She finishes the year 37-5. Also competing was Julia Champ, who was pinned in 1:30 by Bremen's Makenzie Shumaker at 155. Champ finishes the year 22-14.