Browning, Toepfer lead KHS at Hub City

Gant Browning and Rhylee Toepfer led Kingfisher to an eighth-place finish last weekend at the Hub City Classic wrestling tournament in Clinton.

Browning was the runner-up at 120 pounds and Toepfer at 126.

They helped KHS to 67 points.

Marlow was the tournament champ with 368. Clinton’s 178 made it a distant runner-up.

Browning pinned three straight foes to earn his spot in the championship.

However, Marlow’s Lawson Knox shut him out en route to an 8-0 major decision victory to claim gold.

Toepfer got to the finals via a bye, a pin and a narrow decision.

The pin came with just five seconds remaining in his quarterfinal match and then Toepfer edged Julian Pina of Clinton 6-4 in the semifinals.

Brayden Bowman of Marlow defeated him 6-0 in the championship.

Jose Santoyo earned fifth at 170 pounds after beating Douglass’ Jamariyon Franklin with a pin at 3:14 of their fifth-place match.

Bert Haag was sixth at 220 pounds and Braxton Shellstrom at 285.

They combined to earn KHS 23 points.

Lady Jackets have 4 placers

Kingfisher saw four placers help the team to a ninthplace finish in the girls standings.

Taygen Otey led the way by taking fourth at 114-120 pounds.

Otey defeated Hinton’s Destinee Brown 8-4 in their quarterfinal match before dropping a 5-2 decision to Jairy Vasquez in the semifinals.

She came back to pin teammate Emily Warren in

2:12 and then lost her thirdplace match to Hinton’s Layla Sweaney.

Warren ultimately finished sixth in the weight class.

Zoey Padilla took fifth at 126-132 pounds and Serenity Starr was sixth at 100-107.

Starr went 2-2 in the matches she wrestled and also received a bye in the first consolation round.

Kingfisher scored 23 points.

Hinton was the top-scoring girls team with 100 points, edging Cache by one point.