Lady Cats finish second at EPPJ Invite

Four and one-half points.

That’s the margin that separated first and second places, Friday, at the Elgin Public Pope John Girls’ Wrestling Invitational.

Elkhorn Valley landed just ahead of the Bobcats, 123.5 to 119. West Holt finished third, scoring 73; Schuyler junior varsity, fourth, 68; and Neligh-Oakdale, fifth, with 61 points in the 13-team field.

Ava Cleveland struck gold in the 110-pound class. She opened with a win by fall, in :45, over Eva Bermel of Randolph and pinned Schuyler’s Gabriela Romero, in 1:49 in round two. Her pinning ways would continue in the next three rounds, as she pi...