Region Tournament: Wrestling

The Region 4AAAAA wrestling tournament was held at Hiram High School on Saturday, February 10th. There were seven schools present: East Coweta, Hiram, Morrow, Mundy's Mill, Newnan, Paulding County, and Tri-Cities. For a wrestler to qualify for state, he has to place fourth or better at region competition.

Newnan had eight wrestlers qualify for state. Any Pope was the only Newnan wrestler to make it to the finals and wrestle for first or second place. Caleb Forbus and Zack Thompson placed third. Lamar Copeland, Tyler Coots, David Pope, Josh Rumohr, and Josh Whitley all placed fourth.

The state tournament will be held at the Gwinnett Arena on February 15, 16, and 17. At the tournament, first place finishers will wrestle fourth places, and second place will wrestle a third place.

--Josh Rumohr, Sports Editor