Calhoun County wrestling
- Updated: January 3, 2025
Weaver boys break Alexandria’s three-year hold on title, and Weaver girls repeat in dominating fashion. (To be updated)
2025 Calhoun County Wrestling Tournament
GIRLS’ TEAMS
Weaver 162.5
Alexandria 79.5
Piedmont 75.7
Saks 50.0
Wellborn 20.0
Oxford 12.0
White Plains 9.0
Anniston 0.0
Ohatchee 0.0
Pleasant Valley 0.0
GIRLS’ CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS
102: Nya Johannson (Weaver) pins Allana Smart (Piedmont), 3:17
109: Shyanne Scott (Weaver) pins Rayna McCord (Wellborn), 5:29
116: Jaylee Carter (Weaver) pins Alondra Chavero (Saks), 4:35
122: Ariel Sargent (Weaver) pins Macie Cochran (Saks), 1:14
128: Ashlyn Coleman (Weaver) pins Brittney Woodrow (Saks), 1:06
134: Mariah Johannson (Weaver) pins Morgan Baskins (Alexandria), 0:47
140: Kallie Mayfield (Weaver) def. Katelyn Robertson (Alexandria), Dec. 9-6
147: Lena Johannson (Weaver) pins Savannah Fischer (Alexandria), 0:18
154: April Patterson (Alexandria), bye
167: Heaven Bishop (Weaver) pins Emerald Hunter (Alexandria), 4:21
187: Baleigh Brown (Weaver) pins Mia Arcos (Alexandria), 3:27
237: Annabelle Hilburn (Piedmont) pins Ebony Hunter (Alexandria), 0:13
BOYS’ TEAMS
Weaver 221.0
White Plains 157.0
Alexandria 156.5
Piedmont 154.5
Oxford 100.0
Wellborn 95.5
Ohatchee 69.0
Pleasant Valley 36.0
Saks 7.0
Anniston 0.0
BOYS’ CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS
108: Jeremy Lambert (Alexandria) pins Noah Smith (Wellborn), 1:45
115: Karlise Hubbard (Oxford) pins Ryker Houston (Alexandria), 4:19
122: Hudson Hartzog (Alexandria) def. Phoenix Tuiolosega (Ohatchee), TF 1.5, 3:27 (16-0)
128: Mason Hahm (White Plains) pins Jonathan Santos (Alexandria), 3:34
134: Cael Fulmer (Weaver) def. Hayden Hartzog (Alexandria), Dec. 6-2
140: Haiden Hise (Weaver) def. Kion Guy (Alexandria), TF 1.5, 5:07 (22-5)
146: Demerits Smart (Piedmont) def. Gabriel Snyder (Weaver), MD 10-1
152: Wesley Beebe (White Plains) def. Dalton Fink (Weaver), Dec. 6-2
159: Hunter Bagley (Piedmont) def. James Heard (White Plains), Dec. 2-1
167: Dylan Brown (Weaver) pins Michael Pope (Piedmont), 0:54
177: Caden Thornton (Weaver) def. Caleb Tidwell (Piedmont), TF 1.5, 3:22 (19-3)
192: Gus Hunter (Ohatchee) def. Bentley Chandler (Piedmont), M For
217: Jalon Helm (Piedmont) pins Zachary Pressley (Wellborn), 2:32
287: Brandon Jolliff (Weaver) def. Hudson Inglasbe (White Plains), MD 10-2
By Joe Medley
East Alabama Sports Today
ALEXANDRIA — Weaver’s boys’ wrestling team has come to view the Calhoun County Wrestling Tournament as a turning point, a launch pad to greater things.
Three years in a row, the Bearcats finished behind county champion Alexandria. Three years in a row, the Bearcats turned the extra motivation into Class 1A-4A state titles.
This year, they’ll try it as the county champion.
Weaver’s boys and girls swept the 2025 county championships on Friday at Alexandria High School.
The boys boasted five weight-class champions and mounted 221 points, besting second-place White Plains (157), third-place Alexandria (156.5), fourth-place Piedmont (154.5) and the rest of the 10-team field.
“This has been kind of a turning point in our season the last few years,” long-time Weaver coach Andy Fulmer said. “It’s been a catalyst for state, so I hope this doesn’t change anything.”
Weaver’s girls, who dominated the inaugural county girls’ wrestling championship last year, did it again Friday, sweeping all 10 championship finals its wrestlers reached. The Bearcats finished with 162.5 points.
Alexandria (79.5) and Piedmont (75.7) led the rest of the 10-team field.
Weaver’s boy-girl sweep stacked more glory for the county’s historically most successful wrestling program.
“We’re the best team in the county, and it shows,” said Caden Thornton, Friday’s 177-pound champion. “We’ve got a good girls’ program. I’m proud of them, and I’m proud of everybody else on the team.”
Four-time state champion Lena Johannson, who cruised through the 147-pound division Friday, said Weaver’s boys and girls benefit from practicing together.
“A lot of schools don’t do that, so I think that makes a difference,” she said. “It shows that, although we might compete in separate tournaments, we compete as a team. We train together as a team. We do everything together as a team.”
Fulmer, who wrestled under hall-of-game Weaver coach Gene Taylor, says it all goes to “culture.”
‘I ride the girls just as hard at practice as I do the boys,” he said. “I’ve said it the past two or three years, and I’ll say it again. I have the toughest girls in the county. The things that they fight through, the things that they do for us, and as far as competing, they’re tough as nails.
“The culture in that room right now is really special.”
Weaver’s girls’ also boasted their county tournament’s most valuable wrestler in Ashlyn Coleman, an eighth-grader and first-year wrestler who won the 128-pound division.
Alexandria’s Jeremy Lambert, the 108-pound champion, took the boys’ most-valuable-wrestler’s honor.
County coaches voted White Plains’ Todd Manning as the coach of the year after the Wildcats scored their highest-ever finish at county, edging Alexandria half a point for second place.
Mason Hahm won the 128-pound bracket, and Wesley Beebe took first place in the 152 class. James Heard (159) and Hudson Ingalsbe (287) took second place.
Manning came to White Plains from Wellborn.
“This is the sixth year I’ve been there,” he said. “Started the program in 2017, and since then, we’ve just been building and growing.
“I have kids out now that have been with us three or four years and just kind of came up with me. It’s a product of them all sticking together and competing.”
Photo gallery by Joe Medley (unless otherwise noted)
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