TEAM SCORES – 1. Southern Oregon 166.5, 2. Providence (Mont.) 162.5, 3. Eastern Oregon 98, 4. Evergreen State (Wash.) 74, 5. Westcliff (Calif.) 47.5, 6. Simpson (Calif.) 30

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REDDING, Calif. – In what amounted to a two-team race with no margin for error, Southern Oregon did what was needed up and down its 12-person lineup to win the Cascade Conference Women's Wrestling Championship presented by U.S. Bank for the second time by four points on Sunday at the Grant Center.

Top-ranked senior Carolina Moreno notched her third CCC title in the 131-pound bracket, while three more Raiders – top seeds Jasmine Howard (117 pounds), Bailey Dennis (180) and Kat Hingano (207) – became first time champions. SOU, ranked No. 5 in the final NAIA poll, accumulated 166 ½ points, and No. 4 Providence (Mont.) landed on 162 ½.

Providence also produced four individual champions, but SOU had one more finalist than the Argos with Emma Baertlein (110), Marissa Kurtz (117), Quilaztli Miguel-Lapham (160) and Lillian Gradillas-Flores (180) leaving as runners-up. Malia Welch (124) and Eliza Goodwin (131) clinched All-CCC honors in third place, and Kaylee Annis (124) earned an automatic NAIA Championship qualifying bid by winning a true-fourth-place match.

All eight of the Raiders' first- and second-place individuals performed true to seeds. Their minor upset of the Argos was completed thanks in large part to Goodwin and 145-pounder Holland Wieber, neither of whom were among the CCC's top-six in their weight classes entering the tournament. Goodwin, after winning by fall in the consolation semifinals, upset EOU's No. 3 seed, Anna Rodriguez, with a first-round pin in her third-place match. Wieber provided the biggest points swing in her consolation semifinal with a first-round pin to knock off Providence's No. 14-ranked Esther Han.

The Raiders padded their point total with 12 total pins compared to Providence's five. Howard – the No. 7-ranked 117-pounder who joined SOU midseason after becoming a national finalist last year at Texas Wesleyan – was the only wrestler at the tournament with three of them, getting Providence's No. 11 Alicia Frank in the semis and one of her teammates, Kurtz, in the championship.

Moreno, the three-time national champion, continued her unbeaten season with a technical-fall shutout and two falls. She pinned No. 8 Paige Respicio of Providence in her final.

Dennis also won her final against a teammate, Gradillas-Flores, by tiebreaker criteria in a 6-6 decision. Hingano needed only one win to claim the 207 title, pinning Fernanda Canedo of Westcliff (Calif.) in 1:19.

Goodwin, Gradillas-Flores and Wieber were the only Raiders who didn't get automatic national qualifying bids, which were allocated based on the number of top-17 wrestlers per weight class. All three are strong candidates to be among 32 recipients of at-large bids, which will be announced Tuesday.

SOU competes at the NAIA Championships March 14-15 in Park City, Kan.

COMPLETE SOU RESULTS
110 – No. 4 Emma Baertlein (2nd place, AQ)
Quarterfinals – Baertlein dec. No. 14 Nia Avelino, EOU, 6-0
Semifinals – Baertlein tech. fall No. 14 Kayla Shota, UP, 11-0 (5:45)
Championship – No. 3 Paige Morales, UP, dec. Baertlein, 6-0

117 – No. 7 Jasmine Howard (1st place, AQ)
Quarterfinals – Howard p. Isabella Salgado-Aguilar, SU, 0:17
Semifinals – Howard p. No. 14 Irma Retano, EOU, 4:53
Championships – Howard p. No. 8Marissa Kurtz, SOU, 0:44

117 – No. 8 Marissa Kurtz (2nd place, AQ)
Quarterfinals – Kurtz tech. fall Valeria Echevarria, EOU, 10-0 (4:34)
Semifinals – Kurtz p. No. 11 Alicia Frank, UP, 4:04
Championship – No. 7 Jasmine Howard, SOU, p. Kurtz, 0:44

124 – No. 12 Malia Welch (3rd place, AQ)
Quarterfinals – Welch dec. Ellabelle Taylor, ESC, 12-6
Semifinals – No. 17 Kadence Beck, EOU, dec. Welch, 9-7
Consolation Semifinals – Welch dec. No. 13 Kaylee Annis, SOU, 5-1
3rd-place Match – Welch dec. Ellabelle Taylor, ESC, 12-4

124 – No. 13 Kaylee Annis (4th place, AQ)
Quarterfinals – No. 7 Alyssa Randles, UP, dec. Annis, 4-1
Consolation R1 – Annis tech. fall Brooklyn Jones, EOU, 10-0 (3:41)
Consolation Semifinals – No. 12 Malia Welch, SOU, dec. Annis, 5-1
5th-place Match – Annis p. Erica Grant, ESC, 6:00
True 4th-place Match – Annis tech. fall Ellabelle Taylor, ESC. 12-1 (4:27)

131 – No. 1 Carolina Moreno (1st place, AQ)
Quarterfinals – Moreno tech. fall Clarissa Cabrera, SU, 11-0 (1:36)
Semifinals – Moreno p. Brooke Cicierski, EOU, 1:26
Championship – Moreno p. No. 8 Paige Respicio, UP, 1:31

131 – Eliza Goodwin (3rd place)
Quarterfinals – Bye
Semifinals – No. 8 Paige Respicio, UP, tech. fall Goodwin, 12-0 (4:32)
Consolation Semifinals – Goodwin p. Clarissa Cabrera, SU, 5:41
3rd-place Match – Goodwin p. Anna Rodriguez, EOU, 2:32

145 – Holland Wieber (4th place)
Quarterfinals – Berlyn Davis, WU, p. Wieber, 1:06
Consolation R1 – Bye
Consolation Semifinals – Wieber p. No. 14 Esther Han, UP, 2:32
3rd-place Match – No. 13 Aspen Dodge, UP, p. Wieber, 2:06

160 – No. 3 Quilaztli Miguel-Lapham (2nd place, AQ)
Quarterfinals – Bye
Semifinals – Miguel-Lapham dec. No. 11 Hailey Sutton, UP, 2-1
Championship – No. 2 Flor Parker Borrero, ESC, p. Miguel-Lapham, 0:54

180 – No. 6 Bailey Dennis (1st place, AQ)
Quarterfinals – Bye
Semifinals – Dennis p. Viktoriya Dovhoruka, ESC, 0:50
Championship – Dennis dec. Lillian Gradillas-Flores, SOU, 6-6

180 – Lillian Gradillas-Flores (2nd place)
Quarterfinals – Bye
Semifinals – Gradillas-Flores dec. Kyree Rubio, WU, 5-1
Championship – No. 6 Bailey Dennis, SOU, dec. Gradillas-Flores, 6-6

207 – No. 3 Kat Hingano (1st place, AQ)
Quarterfinals – Bye
Semifinals – Bye
Championship – Hingano p. Fernanda Canedo, WU, 1:19