{"id":18520,"date":"2026-02-21T22:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=18520"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:42:58","slug":"five-falcon-mens-wrestlers-qualify-for-state-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/five-falcon-mens-wrestlers-qualify-for-state-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Falcon Wrestlers Qualify for Boys State Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Wrestling-State-Qualifiers-e1771438791339-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18517\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Wrestling-State-Qualifiers-e1771438791339-1024x693.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Wrestling-State-Qualifiers-e1771438791339-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Wrestling-State-Qualifiers-e1771438791339-768x520.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Wrestling-State-Qualifiers-e1771438791339-570x386.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Wrestling-State-Qualifiers-e1771438791339.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Elmira High School boys team&#8217;s qualifying wrestlers for state are, from left, junior Jonah Cooper, junior Tristyn Bell, senior Braiden Agnes, junior Memphis Morgan and sophomore Liam Penkauskas. (Photo by Derek French)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Elmira High School men\u2019s wrestling team competed last Saturday in their regional meet at Creswell High School, with 10 Falcons placing overall and five qualifying for the state meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five EHS wrestlers who qualified for state are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Junior Memphis Morgan, 3rd place, 132 pounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Junior Tristyn Bell, 3rd place, 150 pounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophomore Liam Penkauskas, 3rd place, 165 pounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Junior Jonah Cooper, 3rd place, 215 pounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Braiden Agnes, 2nd place, 285 pounds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The others who placed at the regional meet were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ninth-grader Bently Foutz, 4th place, 106 pounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Junior Kyland Whittington, 5th place, 126 pounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Judah Larsen, 5th place, 138 pounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Miguel Espinoza, 4th place, 157 pounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophomore Sam Full, 5th place, 190 pounds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior wrestler Braiden Agnes told Falcon News that he&#8217;s excited for his final state meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel really good going into state this year,\u201d Agnes said. \u201cI definitely know I can get top six at state, but I feel I can do even better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The qualifying Falcons will compete in the state tournament next Thursday and Friday at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five other EHS wrestlers placed at the regional meet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":18528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-sports","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18520","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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18530,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18520\/revisions\/18530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}