{"id":13019,"date":"2024-02-29T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T21:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=13019"},"modified":"2024-03-01T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:54:20","slug":"senior-brett-highburger-finishes-wrestling-season-as-a-two-time-state-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/senior-brett-highburger-finishes-wrestling-season-as-a-two-time-state-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Brett Highburger Finishes Wrestling Season as Two-Time State Champion\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5857-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13048\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5857-2.jpg 828w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5857-2-300x138.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5857-2-768x353.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5857-2-570x262.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Senior Brett Highburger becomes a back-to-back state champion. (Photo by Leslie Wolgamott)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elmira wrestlers made appearances at the Oregon state tournament at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland on Feb. 22 and 23.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5858.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13035\" style=\"width:405px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5858.jpg 828w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5858-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5858-768x573.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_5858-570x425.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Senior Brett Highburger and ninth-grader Jonah Cooper pose with their medals after placing at state. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Senior Brett Highburger, who finished as state champion last season, competed at 285 pounds. He had four matches, three of which were second-round pins, including his final match. One bout was a first-round pin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highburger now has back-to-back state titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After I won my second state title,&#8221; Highburger told Falcon News, &#8220;I was thrilled and excited.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ninth-grader Jonah Cooper competed at 215 and ended with a sixth-place finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other state qualifiers who competed were seniors June Highburger at 170 and Summer McKeen at 125, sophomores Ashton Archer at 113 and Ryan Pew at 175, and ninth-grader Tucker Christiance at 190.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninth-grader Jonah Cooper places sixth and five others compete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":13048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13073,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions\/13073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}