Girls wrestling to send four girls to state

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Four girls qualify for state along with regional champion Sarah Zimmerman

On Friday, Feb. 11, the girls wrestling team competed in Wichita at regionals. Together the team sent seven girls, four of whom will be attending state on Feb. 23-24 at Hartman Arena in Park City.

The girls who are going to state are junior Sarah Zimmerman, sophomore Addison Otte (16-13), sophomore Katie Gutierrez (16-11) and sophomore Lexi Burton (19-13).

The three who did not qualify for state were freshmen Alysa Brown (4-7) at 115 lbs., Ava Ruiz (16-17) at 138 lbs., and Mabel Braun (2-6) at 155 lbs.

At regionals, Zimmerman got first, Otte in second, Burton in third and Gutierrez in fourth in their weight classes.

Hays earned fifth in the meet overall with 71.0 points.