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TEAM SCORES (top-5 of 37) – 1. Menlo (Calif.) 111, 2. Life (Ga.) 98, 3. Grand View (Iowa) 84.5, 4. Southern Oregon 80, 5. Texas Wesleyan 72.5

JAMESTOWN, N.D. – Individual championship hopes are still alive for four Southern Oregon women's wrestlers after the first of two days at the NAIA Championships, but the Raiders will need a big finish to have a shot at completing their team title defense.

On Friday at Newman Arena, top-seeded junior Carolina Moreno (130 pounds), top-seeded sophomore Caitlyn Davis (155), No. 3-seeded sophomore Shenita Lawson (170) and No. 7-seeded sophomore Bella Amaro (143) advanced to the semifinals. Three additional Raiders clinched All-America status by keeping their seasons alive in the consolation brackets: No. 5-seeded sophomore Emma Baertlein (109), No. 8-seeded junior Marissa Kurtz and unseeded redshirt-freshman Lia Ferreira (101).

On the points leaderboard, No. 1-ranked Menlo (Calif.) is on top with 111, 13 ahead of second-place Life (Ga.) and with a tournament-high 10 wrestlers through to Day 2. Grand View (Iowa) is next with 84 ½ points, and SOU stands in fourth place with 80. Life is the only team with more semifinalists (5) than the Raiders.

Moreno, seeking her third title, remained unbeaten on the season with two pins and a quarterfinal technical fall over No. 8 seed Lillian Avalos of Vanguard (Calif.). So did Davis, who outscored her three opponents 21-1 and pulled out a 3-1 quarterfinal win against No. 8 seed Sadie Antoque of Providence (Mont.).

After receiving a first-round bye, Lawson opened with a win by decision and scored a first-round pin against Missouri Baptist's Faith Macharia to reach the semis. Amaro's finish was the most harrowing of the day: After debuting with a pin and getting to the quarterfinals by 6-2 decision, she erased a three-point deficit in the second period against No. 2-seeded Mea Mohler of Texas Wesleyan to move on with a 4-3 win.

Ferreira won three consecutive consolation matches, including a second-round upset by fall of Missouri Baptist's No. 5-seeded Alyssa Quezaire. Baertlein recovered from a quarterfinal loss to defeat Evegreen (Wash.)'s Nizhoni Tallman, 5-2, in her consolation match, and Kurtz pinned Providence's Arieana Arias in hers after dropping a quarterfinal to the top seed.

Liv Villanueva (109) and Desinee Lopez (136) were both one win short of becoming All-Americans. Lopez dropped one-point decisions to the Nos. 2 and 5 seeds in her brackets.

As a team, the Raiders won 22 of 35 matches on the day.

Saturday's action starts at 8 a.m. PST. The finals begin at approximately 5 p.m.

COMPLETE SOU RESULTS
101 – Karly Scott
Round of 32 – Bye
Round of 16 – No. 5 Alyssa Quezaire, Missouri Baptist, tech. fall Scott, 10-0
Consolation R2 – Devyn Gomez, Life, tech. fall Scott, 18-7

101 – Lia Ferreira
Round of 32 – Bye
Round of 16 – No. 2 Stefana Jelacic, Lourdes, p. Ferreira, 1:08
Consolation R2 – Ferreira p. Teya Garner, William Penn, 0:55
Consolation R3 – Ferreira tech. fall Abbeygael Cabuag, 10-0
Consolation R4 – Ferreira p. No. 5 Alyssa Quezaire, Missouri Baptist, 4:56

109 – No. 5 Emma Baertlein
Round of 32 – Bye
Round of 16 – Baertlein tech. fall Valeria Ahumada, Siena Heights, 10-0
Quarterfinals – No. 4 Paige Morales, Providence, dec. Baertlein, 10-4
Consolation R4 – Baertlein dec. Nizhoni Tallman, Evergreen, 5-2

109 – Liv Villanueva
Round of 32 – Bye
Round of 16 – No. 3 Jasmine Howard, Texas Wesleyan, p. Villanueva, 2:47
Consolation R2 – Bye
Consolation R3 – Villanueva p. Hailey Holland, Missouri Valley, 2:06
Consolation R4 – No. 8 Tristan Nitta, Grand View, p. Villanueva, 2:39

116 – Kaylee Annis
Round of 32 – Bye
Round of 16 – No. 6 Icart Galumette, Campbellsville, dec. Annis, 6-0
Consolation R2 – Arieana Arias, Providence, dec. Annis, 6-4

116 – No. 8 Marissa Kurtz
Round of 32 – Bye
Round of 16 – Kurtz dec. Isabelle Asuncion, Providence, 4-4
Quarterfinals – No. 1 Juliana Diaz, Missouri Baptist, tech. fall Kurtz, 11-0
Consolation R4 – Kurtz p. Arieana Arias, Providence, 1:12

123 – Fernanda Lopez
Round of 32 – Bye
Round of 16 – No. 4 Sophia Smith, Oklahoma City, p. Lopez
Consolation R2 – Carolina Rios, Texas Wesleyan, p. Lopez

130 – No. 1 Carolina Moreno
Round of 32 – Moreno p. Nonnie Justice, Central Methodist, 2:13
Round of 16 – Moreno p. Ellyana Kuzma, Indiana Tech, 1:33
Quarterfinals – Moreno tech. fall No. 8 Lillian Avalos, Vanguard, 10-0

136 – Desinee Lopez
Round of 32 – Lopez tech. fall Bridgette Sotomayor, Doane, 12-2
Round of 16 – No. 2 Andrea Schlabach, Grand View, dec. Lopez, 3-2
Consolation R2 – Lopez p. Angie Prado, Life, 3:24
Consolation R3 – Lopez dec. Aileen Lester, Ottawa, 7-3
Consolation R4 – No. 5 Tiyahna Askew, Missouri Baptist, dec. Lopez, 2-1

143 – No. 7 Bella Amaro
Round of 32 – Amaro p. Makayla Munoz, Oklahoma City, 1:26
Round of 16 – Amaro dec. Isabelle Hawley, William, Penn, 6-2
Quarterfinals – Amaro dec. No. 2 Mea Mohler, Texas Wesleyan, 4-3

155 – No. 1 Caitlyn Davis
Round of 32 – Davis tech. fall Cydney Bassett, Indana Tech, 10-0
Round of 16 – Davis dec. Leilani Hernandez, Texas Wesleyan, 8-0
Quarterfinals – Davis dec. No. 8 Sadie Antoque, Providence, 3-1

170 – No. 3 Shenita Lawson
Round of 32 – Bye
Round of 16 – Lawson dec. Gabrielle Holloway, St. Andrews, 7-2
Quarterfinals – Lawson p. Faith Macharia, Missouri Baptist, 2:27