Both have had longstanding state-tournament success - the Cardinals in Class 2A, and Toppenish in Class 1A (and 2A before ...

Tahoma leads tight boys race in 4A while White River, Hermiston tied in 3A heading into championship finals Friday ...

Gonzaga Prep's Israel Acosta celebrates after winning his 4A boys 144-pound title match at Mat Classic 36 on Friday, Feb. 21, ...

Lincoln’s Tavarre Lee (Boys 3A 132) and Bradley Amsden (Boys 3A 285) captured individual state titles, and the Abes grabbed ...

Peninsula’s Lindsey Shipp hugs one of her coaches after defeating Kennewick’s Jaylee Lopez to win the Class 3A, 170-pound ...

Photo by Todd Milles TACOMA - At the end of Friday night, 48 state champions were crowned at the WIAA state wrestling championships known as Mat Classic. Here are four highlighted matches from ...

Mat Classic XXXVI’s three-day format kicks off Thursday morning at the Tacoma Dome. Find local teams represented, individual ...

Roberts became just the fifth girl in state history to win four-straight Mat Classic titles after she pinned Shorewood's ...

Sophia Torrez became the first three-time state champion for Toppenish’s girls wrestling program. Twenty minutes later, ...

JIM THRALL / MATFOCUS.COM Elma junior Xavier Espinoza (top) contorts Life Christian Academy’s Elijah Miller during the 1A 113 ...

With Mat Classic now a three-day competition, doors at the Tacoma Dome open Thursday. Wrestling for 4A and 3A boys and girls begins at 9 a.m. and expects to continue until 7:30 p.m. On Friday ...

Both came into Mat Classic XXXVI with big-match champions - ones who came into the weekend on four-peat quests. They were clearly the top two programs in Washington, regardless of classification.