Cindy Quayle On Saturday February 11, Springdale High School and Har-Ber High School co-hosted the 6A West regional qualifier at Har-Ber High School.
For the first time in Arkansas high school girls’ wrestling, the competitors had to place in the top four of their weight class to move on to the Arkansas State Tournament on February 24-25 at the Jack Stephens Center at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.
At this high-stakes tournament, the Lady Bulldogs qualified eight wrestlers and took third place as a team.
At #100, junior Laila Brown placed second to Bentonville’s junior, Mackenzie Graves (Fall 0:39). At #110, junior Emily Ashby defeated freshman McKinley Runnels of Bentonville (Fall 1:21) and maintained her number one ranking in her weight class. At #120, junior Kalani Horiuchi came in second, losing to junior Abigail Heard of Bentonville West (Fall 1:16) in the championship match.
