After winning the DeKalb County championship Jan. 18, Lithonia won the Last Man Standing wrestling meet Saturday at Luella. The Bulldogs featured three weight-class champions — Kirkglen Hudson, Shamel Findley and Chris Nelson. Lithonia nipped second-place Marist 195-185; Meadowcreek finished third with 144.5; Luella took fourth with 140.5, and Lakeside-DeKalb finished fifth with 136 points. Fourteen teams competed in the event.
Lithonia and Marist will face each other again at the area tournament at Marist this weekend.
More wrestling: Collins Hill won the Blue Devil Brawl on Saturday at Marietta behind six individual champions and 145 total team points. Roswell took second with 118 points and four champions, and the host Blue Devils took third with 82 points. Grayson (71 points) and Berkmar (53) rounded out the top five.
Cambridge won the 13-team North Metro meet Friday at Brookwood. The Bears had a meet-best four weight-class champions — J.R. Salemi, Brandon Filosi, Will Britain and Malik McNeil. Ola’s A-team came in second with 141, and Lowndes finished third with 116. Brookwood (115 points) and Locust Grove (105) rounded out the top five. … Whitewater defeated Woodward Academy (44-29), Druid Hills (60-21) and Dutchtown (58-15) on Wednesday at Woodward Academy before winning Friday against Woodland-Henry (70-12) and Fayette County (41-25) on Senior Night. … Mountain View edged visiting Peachtree Ridge 31-30 on Jan. 21. The Bears’ Adam Flatt (44-1), a junior, lost his first match of the season as he moved up a class into the 126-pound grouping. Flatt lost in a 9-6 decision to Kareem Al-Asady. In the area tournament next week, Flatt likely will run into Collins Hill’s Sean Russell, who ranks No. 3 nationally.
Swimming: Alpharetta, Westminster and Woodward Academy raced to victories at last weekend's 44th Metro Swimming and Diving Championships. Westminster, which hosted the event, saw its boys and girls place in the top three of their respective meets — good enough for a combined team victory (311.5 points to runner-up Marist's 309). Alpharetta's boys edged the host Wildcats by the slimmest of margins, 176 points to 175.5. The Woodward Academy girls finished first ahead of Marist, with 200 points to the War Eagles' 169. Marist placed in the top three in each of the meets. … The boys' showdown between Alpharetta and Westminster came down to the final race, the 400-yard freestyle relay. Alpharetta and Westminster took first and second, respectively, with the Raiders' foursome of Patrick Cusick, Max Lee, Jonathan Vater and Derek Wu besting the Wildcats' team of Derek Cox, Erek Cox, Gabriel Bellott-McGrath and Patrick Leonard by a little more than one second (3:11.25 to 3:12.32). Cusick, who won the 200 backstroke, and Derek Cox also squared off in the 200 individual medley. The Westminster sophomore prevailed in 1:53.83 to Cusick's 154.15. Bellott-McGrath and Lee also met in the 200 freestyle, with Bellott-McGrath winning by only 45-hundredths of a second ahead of Lee. Northview's boys placed fourth of 18 schools and got victories from Knox Auerbach in the 100 and 500 freestyle competitions. Kathleen Cook of Woodward Academy (100 freestyle and 200 freestyle) and Elise Hart of Cartersville (100 backstroke, 100 butterfly) won two individual events. … Chamblee, Dunwoody and Lakeside-DeKalb all placed in the top three of the boys and girls competitions when the DeKalb County Swim and Dive Championships wrapped up Saturday at Chamblee. The Chamblee boys defeated Lakeside 274-220, and the Lakeside's girls got past Dunwoody 276-250. The victorious Bulldogs boys were led by Caleb Wikle and the Oh brothers, Nicholas and Noah. Wikle took home top individual honors in 1-meter diving; Nicholas won the 100 freestyle, and Noah swam to victory in the 500 freestyle. Tucker's Cash DeLoache set DeKalb County records in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. The Lakeside girls were paced by individual victories by Julianna Cartwright (200 freestyle and 500 freestyle), Raleigh Bentz (200 individual medley and 100 backstroke) and Nicole Hollahan (100 butterfly).
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