Shelby and Hesperia both wrestled at Saturday's Chippewa Hills
Invitational, with the Tigers earning a seventh-place finish and
Hesperia taking 10th.
Brody Fessenden starred for the Tigers,
picking up the title at the 157-pound weight class with a 4-0 record.
Fessenden scored bonus points in all four of his wins, pinning his first
two opponents and scoring technical falls in his final two matches,
including a 16-1 win over Big Rapids' Bryce Selzer in the finals.
Shelby
also had two finalists finish in second place. Jaylin Henderson took
second at 165 and went 3-1. He scored a pin in his first match and
earned a decision and a technical fall to reach the finals. He lost a
hard-fought battle to Greenville's Chayson Eberspeaker, 4-2, in the
championship match.
Alden Beyer was also second, at 113
pounds. Beyer pinned two opponents to reach the finals before falling to
Gladwin's Kolten Greaves in the title match by major decision.
Cesar
Cadena placed third for Shelby at 120, also going 4-1. Cadena pinned
his first two opponents and scored a dramatic overtime victory in the
third-place match, 4-1.
Carter Fuentes had Hesperia's top
finish at the meet, placing second at 106. Fuentes scored two pins and a
technical fall to reach the championship match, losing to Stevensville
Lakeshore's Chase Jacobs in the finals.
The Panthers' second
top-3 finish came from Aiden Smith, who was third at 138. Smith went
3-1, scoring two pins and then a decision in the third-place match.
