POSTED: Wednesday, Jan. 06, 2010

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' WRESTLING: Mount Baker edges Tigers by pins

The Mount Baker girls' wrestling team battled Burlington-Edison to a draw on Wednesday, Jan. 6, but finished with more pins than the Tigers to win 37-36 based on tiebreaker criteria. It was the second time this season the Mountaineers (2-1) have edged B-E based on criteria points.

Mount Baker picked up pins from Dani Mata (112), Shanli Dillard (135), Raney Lepper (140), Katie Weide (152), and Chloe Grafwallner (285) to take the win.

The Mountaineers needed a pin from Grafwallner in the final match of the dual to force things to be decided by pins and she didn't disappoint. The state runner-up took 1 minute, 24 seconds to put her opponent's shoulders on the mat and lock up the win for Mount Baker.

Mata and Weide also had impressive wins, picking up pins late in their matches by outlasting their opponents. Lepper needed just 55 seconds to win her match, while Dillard won in 2:21. Mata's match was particularly satisfying because she lost to the same opponent earlier in the season.

Mount Baker finished with five pins to the Tigers' two. Burlington-Edison also benefitted from four forfeits.

"We just wore them down," Mount Baker assistant coach Clyde Blockley said in a phone interview. "We were better conditioned I think."

Mount Baker wrestles next at the Kelso Invite on Saturday, Jan. 9.

MOUNT BAKER 37, BURLINGTON-EDISON 36 (MB by criteria)

103: Taylor Graham (B-E) p. Brittannie Meza 1:14. 112: Dani Mata (MB) p. Solano 5:34. 119: Torres (B-E) p. Ella Salkeld :50. 125: B-E by forfiet. 130: B-E by forfeit. 135: Shanli Dillard (MB) p. Annesel 2:21. 140: Raney Lepper (MB) p. Pell :55. 145: B-E by forfeit 152: Katie Weide (MB) p. Emma Foss 5:23 160: B-E by forfeit. 171: Jessica Taranenko (MB) forfeit. 285: Chloe Grafwallner (MB) p. Holboy 1:24.