The Crookston Pirate Wrestling team finished ninth out of 10 teams at the Minnewaska Laker Invitational on Friday. Thief River Falls won the invite with 241 points, 34 points better than Little Falls.
Crookston was led by Mauricio Arriaga and Gavyn Hlucny with second place finishes.
TEAM SCORES –
1. Thief River Falls 241
2. Little Falls 207
3. Minnewaska Area 139
4. Wabasso 99
5. Albany 88.5
6. Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 84.5
7. Badger/Greenbush-Middle River 83.5
8. MAHACA 71.5
9. Crookston 49
10. BOLD 39
GIRLS WRESTLING RESULTS –
The Crookston Pirate Girls Wrestler Emma Pierson competed in the Bemidji Rick Lee tournament on Friday.
Pierson beat Sophia Betz-Hilliar of Larimore by pin at 3:37. In the semi-finals she lost to Violet Hehn of Lisbon by pin at 1:56. In the third place match, Emma lost by forfeit to Favour Kulu of Sartell-Saint Stephen and finished fourth place.
All the Pirate individual results are below.
| Weight | Crookston | Opponent | Place |
| 107 | Mauricio Arriaga | W Cullen Steffen (LF) TF 4:15 W Grady Braaten (Min) 12-2 L Kaden Nelson (TRF) TF 4:00 | 2nd |
| 127 | Gabe Perala | L Beau Haugen (MAH) TF 1:23 L James Engelstad (TRF) Pin 2:33 | DNP |
| 152 | Gavyn Hlucny | Bye W Clay Nelson (TRF) Pin 1:04 L Noah Cameron (LF) 5-4 | 2nd |
| 160 | Jose Arriaga | L Trey Zamarron (BOLD) Pin 1:58 L Tyson Lightfoot (Wab) Pin 2:24 | DNP |
| 160 | Lucas Perala | L Blake Iverson (Alb) Pin 3:40 Bye L Aiden Mueller (BBE) 9-5 W Blake Iverson (Alb) Pin 1:21 | 5th |
| 172 | Jaron Knutson | L Jude Bailey (Min) Pin 3:07 W Tristan Schmitz (MAH) TF 2:19 L Colby Twardowski (LF) Pin 2:09 L Dylan Hoffarth (Alb) 7-2 | 6th |
