Pleasant Hill places second at district wrestling meet
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February 8, 2018
Tom Page
Representing the Billies at state, from left, will be Isabelle Rodolf, Preston Nibblett, Ethan Litson, Asher Ruchti, Blaine Rodolf, Jacob Pray and Rowan Von Ortloff.
Pleasant Hill finished second to Scio in the district wrestling tourney Saturday at Harrisburg and qualified seven grapplers for the state 3A tourney Feb. 16-17 in Portland.
"They wrestled well and had a good tournament," said coach Dahn Nikitins, who was named the district coach of the year.
The Billies qualified seven for state by advancing four wrestlers to the finals and having three others place third.
"It's nice to bring the numbers back to what we had years ago," said Nikitins. "We have good kids and I'm proud of them."
Freshman Asher Ruchti (126) and senior Blaine Rodolf (132) gave...
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