Cardinal wrestling team takes third at districts

SPANGLE — The Medical Lake wrestling team missed the title in the Northeast A League at the district meet last weekend, settling instead for third after first-place Lakeside and second-place Deer Park.

The Cards scored 208.5, 10.5 points behind Deer Park’s 219 and 42.5 points shy of Lakeside’s 251.

But 12 individual Medical Lake wrestlers will be moving on to regionals.

Angel Mendez had to settle for third place in the 106-pound weight class after being pinned by Freeman’s Jaron Ilts in 3:34, while Ben Henry settled for fourth on a 5-1 decision against Deer Park’s Emerson McCoullough, and Isaa...