Baker/Powder Valley's Marli Lind, right, competes during the Rollie Lane Invitational Jan. 6, 2024, at Nampa, Idaho. Lind finished third in her division.

SCAPPOOSE — Three Baker/Powder Valley girls wrestlers qualified for the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A state tournament by finishing in the top four at the Special District 1 tournament Friday and Saturday, Feb. 16-17.

The state tournament is Feb. 22-24 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland.

“So this was a pretty tough tournament, a lot of tough girls there, we took eight girls and qualified three for the state tournament, which is great,” coach Josh Anderson said.

Junior Marli Lind advanced to the championship match at 155 pounds, losing 6-1 to La Grande’s Kaitlin Brock.

“She’s been working hard and trying to get her offensive game improved all year long and it’s showing,” Anderson said of Lind, who placed second in the state in 2023.

Freshman Tessa Garrick, at 105, rebounded from a loss in her opening match to win four straight matches, including avenging the first loss to Lacatia Mason of Four Rivers, pinning Mason in the third-place match.

“She’s a super strong girl and listens really well and works hard,” Anderson said of Garrick, who joined the team the first week of practice. “She’s been winning about 50/50 from the middle of the year on, and now in the last tournament and this tournament I think she’s turned a corner.”

In the third place match against Mason, Garrick was trailing by 12 points, in danger of losing by technical fall, but she pinned Mason to win the match.

Junior Lilly Collins placed fourth at 135.

Collins had to win two overtime matches to qualify for state.

“She gutted it out, she’s a tough girl and fought to the end,” Anderson said of Collins. “She won out of willpower and grit in overtime in two matches. It got her into the third place match.”

Junior Oakley Anderson, who won the state title at 170 last year, just missed qualifying to defend her championship.

After pinning her first two opponents, Anderson lost two matches, each by a single point, the first in an overtime tiebreaker.

She had to forfeit the fifth-place match, which was for a berth at state, due to a medical issue.

Baker/Powder Valley individual results Marli Lind, 155 pounds, 2nd place

Beat Brittanie Ely, Irrigon, by fall, 3:28

Beat Natalie Oliveira, Dayton, by fall, 41 seconds

Beat Hailie Ballou, Nyssa, by fall, 2:46.

1st place match: Lost to Kaitlin Brock, La Grande, 6-1

Tessa Garrick, 105, 3rd

Lost to Lacatia Mason, Four Rivers, by fall, 1:30

Cons. Round 2: Beat

McKennah Dempsey,

Union/Cove, by fall, 35 seconds

Cons. Round 3: Beat Madison Cathey, Union/Cove, by fall, 1:52

Cons. Semi: Beat

McKenna Justus, Vale, by fall, 2:08

3rd Place Match: Beat Lacatia Mason, Four Rivers, by fall, 4:58

Lilly Collins, 135, 4th

Beat Jade Mata,

La Grande, by fall, 45 seconds

Beat McKenna Word, Banks, by sudden victory, 4-3

Lost to Kirsten Delazerda of Eagle Creek, by fall, 3:50

Beat McKenzie Reilly, Estacada, in sudden victory,

8-6

3rd-place match: Lost to Paige Allen, La Grande, by fall, 1:32

Oakley Anderson, 170, 6th

Beat Hailey Wright, Union/Cove, by fall, 1:10

Beat Kylie Malkemus, Warrenton, by fall, 1:31

Lost to Jadyn Pense, St. Helens, in a tiebreaker, 3-2

Consolation semifinal: Lost to Maddy Armstrong, La Grande, 2-1

5th place match: Lost to Sabrina Stewart, Gladstone, by medical forfeit

Kylie Martin, 115, 2 team points

Lost to Megan Wiseman, Riverside, by fall, 3:26

Beat Madeline Kroon, Scappoose, 3-2

Beat Kaitlyn Bennett, Pine Eagle, by fall, 2:35

Cons. Round 4: Lost to Avrey Robinson, La Grande, by fall, 2:28

Marrissa Weston, 155, 2 team points

Lost to Kaitlin Brock, La Grande, by fall, 36 seconds

Beat Lillian Thayer, Dayton, 11-10

Cons. Round 4: Lost to Sadie Risseeuw, Willamina, by fall, 30 seconds

Alsitie Elizondo, 4 team points

Champ. Round 2: Lost to Sabrina Stewart, Gladstone, by fall, 24 seconds

Cons. Round 3: Beat Cyarah McGoff, Nyssa, by fall, 1:20

Cons. Round 4: Lost to Bella Inniss, Knappa, by fall, 1:36

Neva Lynch, 105

Lost to Olivia Farris, Elgin, by fall, 57 seconds

Cons. Round 2: Lost to Madison Cathey, Union/Cove, by fall, 2:11