Mid-Columbia sports briefs: Hermiston’s Colbray wins national wrestling titles

Wrestling

Recent Hermiston graduate Sam Colbray, who will wrestle at Iowa State this winter, won the freestyle and Greco-Roman disciplines at 220 pounds in the junior division at the USA Wrestling Fargo Nationals, held July 16-23 at the FargoDome at North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D.

In freestyle, nobody scored on Colbray until the title bout, where he beat Minnesota’s Keegan Moore by technical fall 15-4. Colbray won every freestyle bout by technical fall, all 10-0 until the final.

In Greco-Roman (no scoring points below the waist), Colbray defeated Virginia’s Jeffrey Allen by technical fall 13-2 in the championship match. Colbray scored four technical falls and two pins — both in under a minute — on his way to the title.

Youth baseball

Pacific Little League hit four home runs en route to a 9-5 victory over Richland National Little League at the 12-year-old state tournament at Hidden Valley Complex in Bellevue.

PLL, the defendings state champions, got home runs from Tyreek Curley, Jacob Gabler, Remy Heckman and Carter Shoemake.

Deacon Boyce went 2-for-2 with a double and two runs scored for Richland, which managed four hits and committed three errors.

RNLL played Federal Way in a loser-out game Wednesday.

This story was originally published July 27, 2016 at 8:08 PM with the headline "Mid-Columbia sports briefs: Hermiston’s Colbray wins national wrestling titles."