{"id":149356,"date":"2026-03-02T01:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149356\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:03:34","slug":"slifer-hoeme-lead-manhattan-high-girls-wrestling-to-4th-at-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149356\/","title":{"rendered":"Slifer, Hoeme lead Manhattan High girls’ wrestling to 4th at state"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manhattan High girls\u2019 wrestling took another step forward in elevating the program on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Behind two individual state champions and seven total medalists, the Indians placed fourth at the Class 6A state tournament at AdventHealth Sports Park, continuing a rise that has transformed the program in just a few short years.<\/p>\n

Leading the charge were senior Alayna Slifer at 135 pounds and junior Sophia Hoeme at 140, who each stood alone atop their divisions by night\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

For Slifer, it was a fitting final chapter.<\/p>\n

The senior captured her second straight state championship, recording her fourth pin of the tournament in the title match. In total, she spent just 5 minutes, 32 seconds on the mat across four matches.<\/p>\n

Read the rest and subscribe at The Mercury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan High girls\u2019 wrestling took another step forward in elevating the program on Saturday. Behind two individual state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-149356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}