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Clifton Central’s Payton Temple makes IHSA Girls Wrestling State semifinals: Friday’s Daily Journal roundup

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Girls wrestling

IHSA State Finals: After the first day of the two-day state tournament at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington, Clifton Central junior Payton Temple is the lone area wrestler to have made the semifinals.

Temple, in her third trip to state, is in Saturday morning’s semifinal round after pinning Marist’s Sarah Parker in the first round and Cahokia’s Janylah Holman in the second round on Friday. Her semifinal opponent is O’Fallon’s Kira Thompson.

Bradley-Bourbonnais’ Sophia Domont was eliminated in the 140-pound tournament after pins from Urbana’s Ricky Ivy and Metea Valley’s Alketa Picari.

Boys Wrestling

IHSA Class 1A Dual Team State quarterinals: Also in Bloomington, Coal City edged Olympia 46-27 as the defending champions will next face Dixon in Saturday morning’s semifinals.

Tyson Price (120 pounds), Owen Petersen (126), Cooper Morris (132), Brody Widlowski (150), Noah Houston (157), Aidan Kenney (165), Brock Finch (175), Evan Gregain (190) and Cade Poyner (215) were all victorious in their matches.

Boys swim and dive

IHSA State Finals: Bradley-Bourbonnais saw its two state qualifying swim and dive athletes end their seasons in Friday’s preliminary round in Westmont. Eli Swafford was 27th in the 100-yard freestyle (46.96 s) and 36th in the 100 backstroke (53.63). Elijah Shold was 44th in diving (159.40).

Mason Schweizer

Mason Schweizer

Mason Schweizer joined the Daily journal as a sports reporter in 2017 and was named sports editor in 2019. Aside from his time at the University of Illinois and Wayne State College, Mason is a lifelong Kankakee County resident.