The CIF State Wrestling tournament begins Thursday at Dignity Health Arena in Bakersfield. The three-day event opens at 9 a.m. with early rounds of the girls championships, followed by the boys, getting underway at noon.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s schedule also starts at 9 a.m., with the championship quarterfinals at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
The final day gets underway at 9 a.m. with the semifinals 10:30 a.m. and the championship finals at 6:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
Last year, Peninsula\u2019s Leila Witzerman was the lone South Bay medalist, placing eighth at 110 pounds. She returns this year, ranked fifth in the state at 110 pounds.<\/p>\n
South Torrance\u2019s Caden Garriott will be making his third consecutive trip. Garriott is ranked 11th in the state at 126 pounds. Peninsula\u2019s Efosa Osayande will be making a second consecutive trip. Osayande is ranked eighth in the state at 175 pounds.<\/p>\n
Banning leads all South Bay teams with five qualifiers (Heidi Fernandez, Delfina Palmas, Jasmine Bonilla, Camilia Alba, Junior Lopez and Luis Cervantes). Lopez and Cervantes qualified as L.A. City champions. Bonilla is making her second consecutive state appearance, as is Carson\u2019s Troi Ellis.<\/p>\n
South boys are sending three (Garriott, Kyle DaNobrega and Robert Crowe). San Pedro qualified four girls (Emma Alversado, Saphiah Atlas, Zoe Brodin and Andrea Baker). Peninsula is also sending three (Witzerman, Osayande and Gianna Lopez).<\/p>\n
Qualifying was done at the CIF-Southern Section Masters Meet and the L.A. City Section championship.<\/p>\n
Here are this year\u2019s South Bay qualifiers:<\/p>\n
Girls<\/p>\n
110 \u2013 Leila Wiltzerman, Peninsula, Sr.; Emma Alversado, San Pedro, Sr.<\/p>\n
125 \u2013 Heidi Fernandez, Banning, Sr.; Faith Bree, Redondo Union, Sr.<\/p>\n
135 \u2013 Troi Ellis, Carson, Sr.; Ruby Dominguez, Mira Costa, Sr.<\/p>\n
140[ Gianna Lopez, Peninsula, Jr.<\/p>\n
145 \u2013 Saphiah Atlas, San Pedro, Sr.<\/p>\n
155 \u2013 Delfina Palmas, Banning, Sr.<\/p>\n
170 \u2013 Jasmine Bonilla, Banning, Sr.<\/p>\n
190 \u2013 Zoe Brodin, San Pedro, Soph.<\/p>\n
235 \u2013 Andrea Baker, San Pedro, Sr.; Camila Alba, Banning, Soph.<\/p>\n
Boys<\/p>\n
106 \u2013 Junior Lopez, Banning, Jr.<\/p>\n
126 \u2013 Caden Garriott, South Torrance, Jr.<\/p>\n
144 \u2013 Kyle DaNobrega, South Torrance, Sr.<\/p>\n
175 \u2013 Efosa Osayande, Peninsula, Sr.<\/p>\n
215 \u2013 Luis Cervantes, Banning, Sr.<\/p>\n
285 \u2013 Robert Crowe, South Torrance, Sr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CIF State Wrestling tournament begins Thursday at Dignity Health Arena in Bakersfield. The three-day event opens at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,2044,66096,127],"class_list":["post-191946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-school-wrestling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}