Petersburg High School's Freya Fenner and Ketchikan High School's Loriel Zapanta circle each other during the finals of the Bill Weiss wrestling tournament at the Clarke Cochrane Gymnasium on Saturday, Nov.7. Zapanta won by decision, 9-6, winning the girls' 114-pound weight class.
Despite the weather conditions, sickness and injuries, the Petersburg High School Wrestling team was able to compete at the Bill Weiss tournament this past weekend in Sitka, albeit with a smaller group of kids.
Due to the various circumstances mentioned above, the team could only take five athletes on this meet, which were Cedar Helms, junior Jake Newlun, Darby Swainson, freshman Freya Fenner and Declan Olsen.
"You always want your whole team there but we are still a team even if it's one kid, five kids, 10 kids. I think we were able to focus more on their matches. They [wrestlers] got more at...
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