TEAM SCORES – 1. Southern Oregon 158, 2. Menlo (Calif.) 148, 3. Providence (Mont.) 138.5, 4. Eastern Oregon 99.5, 5. Vanguard (Calif.) 73, 6. Simpson (Calif.) 6.5

TOURNAMENT CENTRAL

UPDATE: Three Raiders were awarded at-large bids for the NAIA Championships post-tournament: Glory Konecny (116), Jordynn Robson (130) and Bailey Dennis (155).

LA GRANDE – Step one on the No. 3-ranked Southern Oregon University women's wrestling team's postseason checklist is complete. For the first time, the Raiders are Cascade Conference champions.

The final score was tighter than expected, but SOU locked up first place in the finals as senior 109-pounder Natalie Reyna, sophomore 123-pounder Carolina Moreno, senior 143-pounder Emily Se and senior 170-pounder Joye Levendusky conquered their brackets to capture individual titles Sunday at the CCC Championships presented by U.S. Bank inside Quinn Coliseum.

Gabrielle Weyhrich, in her first season at SOU, was voted the CCC Coach of the Year, and Se was selected as the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler.

Five more individuals earned All-CCC status and gave the Raiders nine total qualifiers for their trip to the NAIA Championships in two weeks. Macie Stewart (109 pounds) – who last season won a CCC title and on Sunday ceded to her teammate, Reyna, by forfeiting the final – and Grace Kristoff (191) took second place. Esthela Trevino (101), Bella Amaro (136) and Karrah Smith (191) each placed third.

The Raiders had a slim four-point lead over No. 4 Menlo (Calif.), the two-time defending CCC champion, entering the finals, but their strong work there gave them 158 total points to the Oaks' 148. Menlo went 1-4 in first-place matches but hung on to second place over Providence (Mont.), which accumulated 138 ½ points and matched SOU with four individual titles.

Before her forfeit victory over Stewart, Reyna, ranked No. 3 in the NAIA, needed just one tournament victory to reach the final, defeating Eastern Oregon's No. 16 Stephanie Blankenship by fall in the first round.

Moreno, the top-ranked defending NAIA champion at 123, discarded a pair of top-five individuals from Menlo to claim her first conference championship. She got revenge on No. 5 Haley Narahara – who was responsible for one of her two losses on the season – in a 4-2 semifinal victory, then defeated No. 3 Alana Vivas by 3-0 decision in the final.

Se was typically dominant at 143. The No. 2-ranked All-American won by 10-0 technical fall over EOU's No. 12 Morgan Shines in the semifinals before pinning Shines' teammate, No. 6 Liv Wieber, two minutes into their championship match.

The No. 2-ranked Levendusky was similarly unchallenged, needing just 29 seconds to finish off a technical fall against Providence's Jolette Miner-Ho in the semifinals and pinning No. 14 Lily El-Masri of Vanguard (Calif.) in the first round of the 170 final.

When the Raiders finished second to Menlo last season, they produced just two individual champs.

Stewart, ranked No. 7 at 109, advanced to the final with a 2-1 semifinal victory against Menlo's No. 9 Barbara Greenberg. Kristoff, ranked No. 9 at 191, got to hers with a pin of Providence's No. 17 Alexis Tupuola.

Trevino went 3-1 on the day, with a pin, a technical fall, and a 16-7 decision over Menlo's No. 11 Kayla Mckinley-Johnson in the third-place match. Amaro won her third-place match by technical fall over Vanguard's Piper Hall, and Smith defeated Tupuola 4-2 in her must-win placing match.

The Raiders will be in Jamestown, N.D., on March 10-11 for the NAIA Championships, looking to one-up last year's second-place finish.

COMPLETE SOU RESULTS
101 – No. 2 Esthela Trevino (3rd place)
Quarterfinals – Trevino p. Viviana Davalos, VU, 1:26
Semifinals – No. 3 Erin Hikiji, UP, p. Trevino, 5:42
Consolation Semifinals – Trevino tech. fall Nayeli Flores Roque, EOU, 10-0 (5:18)
3rd-Place Match – Trevino dec. No. 11 Kayla Mckinley-Johnson, MC, 16-7

109 – No. 3 Natalie Reyna (1st place)
Semifinals – Reyna p. No. 16 Stephanie Blankenship, EOU, 2:42
Championship – Reyna wins by medical forfeit over No. 7 Macie Stewart, SOU

109 – No. 7 Macie Stewart (2nd place)
Quarterfinals – Stewart dec. Melanie Salazar, SU, 11-2
Semifinals – Stewart dec. No. 9 Barbara Greenberg, MC, 2-1
Championship – No. 3 Natalie Reyna, SOU, wins by medical forfeit over Stewart

116 – No. 9 Glory Konecny (4th place)
Quarterfinals – Konecny tech. fall Lily Grismer, UP, 10-0 (4:15)
Semifinals – No. 7 Ajayzee Zaballos, MC, dec. Konecny, 4-2
Consolation Semifinals – Konecny dec. No. 20 Paige Chafin, EOU, 8-2
3rd-Place Match – No. 17 Marissa Ritchie, VU, tech. fall Konecny, 10-0 (2:31)

123 – No. 1 Carolina Moreno (1st place)
Semifinals – Moreno dec. No. 5 Haley Narahara, MC, 4-2
Championship – Moreno dec. No. 3 Alana Vivas, MC, 3-0

130 – Jordynn Robson (5th place)
Quarterfinals – No. 12 Stephanie Chavez, MC, p. Robson, 1:52
Consolation Semifinals – No. 9 Kaylee Moore, EOU, dec. Robson, 9-1

136 – No. 6 Bella Amaro (3rd place)
Quarterfinals – Amaro p. Madelyn Mazemke, EOU, 2:18
Semifinals – No. 3 Paige Respicio, UP, dec. Amaro, 4-1
3rd-Place Match – Amaro tech. fall Piper Hall, VU, 10-0 (2:35)

143 – No. 2 Emily Se (1st place)
Semifinals – Se tech. fall No. 12 Morgan Shines, EOU, 10-0 (4:31)
Championship – Se p. No. 6 Liv Wieber, EOU, 2:03

155 – No. 7 Bailey Dennis (4th place)
Quarterfinals – Dennis p. Amara Halverson, EOU, 1:19
Semifinals – No. 19 Alexandra Lopez, MC, dec. Dennis, 8-6
Consolation Semifinals – Dennis p. Ireri Mares, VU, 1:06
3rd-Place Match – No. 8 Shannon Workinger, MC, dec. Dennis, 7-2

170 – No. 2 Joye Levendusky (1st place)
Semifinals – Levendusky tech. fall Jolette Miner-Ho, UP, 12-0 (0:29)
Championship – Levendusky p. No. 14 Lily El-Masri, VU, 2:40

191 – No. 9 Grace Kristoff (2nd place)
Semifinals – Kristoff p. No. 17 Alexis Tupuola, UP, 2:50
Championship – No. 3 Tavia Heidelberg-Tillotson, MC, p. Kristoff, 5:37

191 – No. 14 Karrah Smith (3rd place)
Semifinals – No. 3 Tavia Heidelberg-Tillotson, MC, p. Smith, 0:47
3rd-Place Match – Smith dec. No. 17 Alexis Tupuola, UP, 4-2