For Centralia High School’s Ramona Reinitz and W.F. West’s Lia Hornby, the chance to represent their programs at the summer’s most prestigious wrestling tournament came with separate ideologies.
Reinitz was aiming to cap a stellar freshman season while Hornby was donning a wrestling singlet for potentially the final time.
The ultimate goal was just out of reach.
Hornby lost on the consolation side of the junior women’s freestyle 140-pound bracket in her first match on Sunday while Reinitz suffered a 16U 112 pound bloodround setback that ended her chance at becoming an All-American at Fargo Nationals held inside the FargoDome in North Dakota.
The Lewis County duo were the lone area wrestlers that made it to the second day. Centralia’s Eva Reinitz ended her tournament with a criteria loss in an early consolation round.
Ramona Reinitz, seeded 14th in the bracket, reached the Round of 16 on back-to-back pins then lost a 9-3 decision to Maggie Cornish from California.
That loss was quickly answered with two more falls on the back side by the runner-up at Mat Classic XXXV, her final one in just 26 seconds to clinch her spot in the bloodround.
Fourth-seeded Samiyah Rahming out of Pennsylvania dominated the Tigers sophomore-to-be with two four-point moves and another takedown to win by superiority 11-0 in 1:06.
Eva Reinitz, the 11th seed in the same weight class and age division, started with two wins by superiority and fall, respectively, before losing her last two by pin and 8-8 on criteria based on Oklahoma’s Brooklynn Church having a four-point move.
Hornby, a recent Bearcat graduate and seeded 19th, claimed her first three matches with pins and was up 8-3 on nationally ranked Amelia Fawcett out of Alaska. Fawcett worked a takedown in the second period and rolled into a pin to send Hornby to the back side.
The state place-winner at Mat Classic triumphed in a wild match by pinning Idaho’s Holland Wieber in over three minutes after leading 14-12. Hornby fell to Ohio’s Rejan Alhashash by 13-3 superiority to end her tournament two wins shy of garnering a medal.
Centralia’s Antonio Campos will take the mat starting Monday at 126 pounds in the junior men’s freestyle bracket.
