Recap time: 6A Girls

El Paso Eastwood won its third state title and the second in three years in the girls 6A division.

The Troopers had 130 points and had a 34-point margin of victory. Eastwood had three in the finals and Hailey Delgado (100) and Paulina Butler (145) won titles. 

Delgado, a freshman, capped her first season with a 46-0 mark.

Four other Troopers also had top-six finishes — and all four of those are underclassmen. In addition, one of the other wrestlers at the state meet is also slated to be back for Eastwood — meaning Eastwood could be in line to follow the success that Allen has had in recent years. 

Allen had won four consecutive Class 6A girls state team titles — including sharing the title with Eastwood in 2023

Two Houston-area schools took the other two trophies.

The Woodlands College Park was the runner-up with 96 points. Earlier this year, the Cavaliers won the State Duals Tournament. Katy took third with 85 points. 

The top three teams were also three of the four regional champions the week prior to the state meet. 

We will provide a recap of the finals in each weight class and other notable accomplishments throughout the two-day event at the Berry Center.

100 pounds

This weight class played out like we thought when the No. 1 vs. No. 2-ranked wrestler met in the finals.

The top-ranked Delgado faced Rendon again in the finals — just like they had the week prior in regionals — and Delgado kept winning — this time by a pin in the third period.

In her three matches, Delgado got pins — while also picking up a medical forfeit win in the semifinals.

Rendon was 44-4 this year with all four losses coming to Delgado.

Third-ranked Dockery, due to her injury, took sixth and didn’t wrestle after the quarterfinals.

Katy’s Natalie Roberson took third with a 12-3 major decision over Keller’s Audrey Moore in the third-place match. Roberson was 40-6 and finished one spot higher than we had her ranked coming into state. Meanwhile, Moore was 39-9 and was seeded 11.

Yvette Zepeda of Houston Langham Creek took fifth due to the Dockery medical forfeit. 

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Emily Beltran won a title for Katy — the first girls champion since Krista Hartman, who is now Katy assistant coach Hartman, won the 138-pound title in 2000. 

Beltran was 48-0 this year. She beat El Paso Franklin’s Fiona Smith in the final with a fall 24 seconds into the second period. Smith started her tournament by knocking off second-seeded Arianna Beltran of Cypress Ranch.

Arianna Beltran worked her way back on the backside of the bracket but lost to No. 3-ranked Allesandra Toscano in the third-place match 3-0. Toscano, a freshman, finished 44-5 and lost to Emily Beltran in the semifinals.

Haslet V.R. Eaton’s Ashlyn Lewis lost to Emily Beltran in the opening round but worked her way to take fifth-place. The senior (44-13) beat Danielle Sizelove of The Woodlands by a pin just before the second-period whistle.

Lewis was ranked 14th heading into state.

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The Woodlands standout Riley Rayome won her third straight title in 6A and a 54-0 mark.

She capped off her career winning 99 in a row by taking home a title at 114 pounds with a win over Grace Romans of Allen in a battle of No. 1-ranked Rayome and No. 2-ranked Romans.

The two met in the regional finals the weekend before and Rayome also won by a decision then.

The unsigned senior finished with a 215-5 mark in high school and won titles her last three years. She was fifth as a freshman, when she was at Humble Kingwood Park.

The third-place match was what we kind of expected with No. 3-ranked Nevada Daniels of Katy Cinco Ranch facing off against 4th-ranked Abigail Gallard of Hutto.

In that match, the Gallardo won by an 11-4 decision for the Hippos. Gallardo beat Shobhaana Spielman of San Antonio Reagan by a pin in the blood round to beat the two-time medalist. 

Daniels was fourth for the second year in a row.

The fifth-place match was a rematch of an early showdown. On Friday, Naime Abdallah of El Paso Franklin beat Stephanie Lopez of Katy Mayde Creek by a pin in the quarterfinals. In the fifth-place match on Saturday, Abdallah won by a 9-0 major decision. Abdallah dropped to the consolation bracket after a loss to Rayome in the semifinals. 

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This was easily the craziest bracket for both sides as many of the favorites didn’t get in the top six.

The state championship was claimed by No. 11-ranked Lucy Clarno of Dripping Springs.

The freshman was ranked low after taking third at the Region 4-6A meet the week prior but had two major decisions, a pin and a decision to claim the title, 11-5.

Facing No. 9-ranked Mila Juarez of San Marcos in the finals, Clarno held a 4-3 lead after the first period. In the second period, Clarno got an escape and then a takedown to build an 8-3 

Clarno beat No. 1-ranked Vanessa De La Cruz from The Woodlands College Park by a 10-1 major decision in the semifinals — whom she lost to 9-6 in the Texas Ladies Outlaw tournament in early January in Allen.