The Knoxville Girls Wrestling Squad hosted their first ever stand alone dual on Thursday getting a win over Martensdale-St. Mary’s 66-12 highlighted was that the two coaches of the opposing teams were father and daughter. Doug Hatch is the head coach at Knoxville while daughter Faith is the head coach for the Blue Devils. The dual itself had just three contested matches all won by Knoxville in pins as Serenity Turner, Molly Finnegan and Mariah Ripperger all took wins. Turner recently achieved 100 career pins and was honored for that feat. She tells KNIA/KRLS Sports it was a great accomplishment.

Turner: “Pretty significant thing, a lot of girls celebrate their 100 pins, but we didn’t realize I had gotten to 100 until the other day so we celebrated 113 pins.”

Knoxville vs Martensdale-St. Mary’s

Meanwhile the boys wrestling squad had their quad a BGM cancelled due to weather. That meet will likely not be rescheduled. In bowling the Knoxville squads split their matches with Centerville on Thursday with the boys winning 1984-1560 while the girls lost 1761-1517. The boys were led by Ahren Mohler shooting 279 series and a 153 game while Nicole Schultz had high marks for the girls with a 320 series and a high game of 164. The boys wrestlers will turn their attention, weather pending, to the I-35 Invitational on Saturday, the girls wrestlers will next head to the State Qualifier in Ottumwa and the bowlers will take on Norwalk on Saturday.