The second annual Rhode Island girls wrestling state championships saw significant growth, with 50 participants across 12 weight classes, compared to 31 wrestlers in fewer weight classes the previous year. Scituate High School won the team title with 105 points, led by individual champions Jolene Cole, Chloe Ross, and Abigail Otte.

On the girls’ side, Palo Alto freshman Ella Cohen, competing at 105 pounds, defeated Ava Fodera of Poway by fall at 5:20. Clayton Valley took seventh in the girls team standings at 59.5 points and Gilroy was 10th at 52.

Brown Deer/Messmer/Shorewood junior Makhi Rodgers took his shot in the final seconds, trailing 7-4, at securing a match-tying takedown, but it was not to be. Tanner Gormanson of Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln put the match away in the third period with a takedown off of Rodgers' move, securing the D1 285-pound title in a 10-4 final.