Lillian Morse doesn’t really look ahead much in her bracket. But even the Dallas sophomore was quick to notice records.

Yes, she doesn’t focus on the record itself, not putting much stress on the wins or losses of her opponent.

Rather, it’s the number.

Some girls entered last week’s District 2 Girls Wrestling Championship with more than 30 matches.

Some brought records of 27-7, 30-2 and even one loss on their resume.

For Morse, though, her record was just 2-0. She’s the lone girl in the Dallas boys’ program, at 190 pounds wrestling in a weight class where Mountaineers have a lot of depth and talent.

Ask Morse about her season record, and she begins to think.

A tournament here. An exhibition there. Penn Manor and Wyoming Valley Conference tournaments.

Her guesstimate? Less than 10 matches total. Probably closer to seven.

“It’s tough. I just do whatever I can outside of practice to make sure my legs and arms are as strong as possible so when I get into cradles, I can get out of them as quick as I can,” said Morse as the lone Mountaineer will head to the PIAA Girls’ Central Regional Tournament in Milton on Saturday.

“Some of the boys, like Marc (Saracinaj) and Bobby (Booth), they always have my back and they’ve been a big help in making sure that I am in the right mindset all the time.”

For Morse, it’s about opportunity. Finding those matches wherever she can.

She wrestled at the Penn Manor Tournament, and found an exhibition or two throughout the season, like against Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech.

Her 2-0 record came from the Wyoming Valley Conference tournament, but even then, the bracket was just her and Nanticoke Area’s Keira Landmesser where the pair wrestled a best-of-three series to determine the conference titlist.

There, she picked up an 8-2 win in the first bout, and followed with a second-period fall to earn conference honors.

It was her first wins after going 0-4 as a freshman where she wrestled in a tough, 170-pound bracket last season with the likes of Nanticoke Area’s Sierra Ripka and Wyoming Area’s Gia Chapman.

“That gave my confidence,” Morse said. “I know what it feels like to now win a tournament, and what it’s like to stand on the top of the podium. I can just feed off of that, and just do my best. If I do my best, then, I am happy with what the result is.”

Entering the district championship at Wilkes-Barre Area High School, Morse knew she had a shot at regionals.

Again, it was a smaller bracket with only six girls. Four of them would be making it to the regional tournament.

While she dropped her first match, losing by fall to Delaware Valley’s Caitlin Luciano, Morse was able to punch her ticket to regionals after beating Valley View’s Alexis Lamolly in the consolation semifinals.

In the third-place match, Morse wrestled better against Luciano as a lone takedown was the difference in the 4-0 setback.

“I worry about the next match. I can’t worry about the match after that one or the one I just had,” Morse said. “I just have to worry about the match that’s in front of me. I can’t get caught up on the next one.”

She’ll enter the 190-pound bracket at regionals with only five matches, sporting her 3-2 record. Her first-round opponent, Mifflinburg’s Taylor Stewart, is 22-8.

The next closest to Morse in number of matches is Southern Huntingdon sophomore Brianna Gordon, who has 15.

“I am excited because I will be able to get some good matches there, and then, it’s off to lacrosse season,” Morse said.

Nine District 2 girls advanced through the sectional bracket last season to qualify for states. Among those returning are Wallenpaupack’s Gia Silva, Honesdale’s Saige Olver and Maddison Miller, Nanticoke Area’s Sierra Ripka and Emily Kivler, Delaware Valley’s Kate Prior and Crestwood’s Samara Bailey.

Prior was the lone District 2 girls to earn a No. 1 seed as she’s ranked No. 2 in the state at 170, according to Pa. Power Wrestling.

Those earning No. 2 seeds were Wallenpaupack’s Rosa SanClementi (106), Nanticoke’s Kivler (112), Olver (124), Hazleton Area’s Shaniece Brown (130), Miller (148) and Abington Heights’ Hayden Manning (155).

Two to keep an eye on throughout the bracket is Ripka and Hazleton Area’s Evelyn Sheer. Ripka, a two-time state placer, has three losses on the year – all to Prior – and is ranked No. 3 in the state at 170. Her road to the final could include Brockway’s Elysabeth Myers (22-2) and Shikellamy’s Finley Boetsch (32-1). Boetsch, the No. 2 seed, lost to Myers this season, and has won 30 of her matches by fall.

Sheer, whose only loss came to three-time defending state champ Brenda Banks of Panther Valley, could see Athens’ Leah Nason in the semifinals. Sheer pinned Nason twice this season, while the top seed here is Bedford’s Mylah Steinbuch (17-0), the defending regional champ and eighth place in the state last season.