Norwell finished fifth out of eight teams at the Northeast 8 Conference wrestling championship at Huntington North on Saturday.
The Knights finished the day with 143.5 team points and had an individual champ in Chance Behning at 138. He defeated Lucas Barkley of New Haven by decision 4-3.
Bellmont was the team champion with a total score of 211 points. New Haven was second with 190, East Noble third (172.5), Leo fourth (168), Norwell fifth (143.5), DeKalb sixth (122), Columbia City seventh (96) and Huntington North eighth (93).
Individual placers
for Norwell:
• Hunter Douglas fourth at 120.
• Jason Prough second at 126 (lost by decision 8-7 to Nolan Butcher of Leo in championship match)
• Conner Fojtik second at 132 (lost by fall to Brayden Clauser of New Haven in championship match).
• Chace Behning first at 138.
• Luke Dreiband fifth at 150.
• Cody Cox second at 165 (lost by major decision 19-6 to Bellmont’s Duke Meyers in the championship match.
• Elijah Behning second at 175 (lost by decision 4-3 to Xavior Palacios in championship match).
• Zach Wilson fifth at 190.
• Ethan Michael fourth at 215.
Norwell will compete at the sectional meet hosted by Jay County starting at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27.
