{"id":5304,"date":"2026-01-20T03:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:59:42","slug":"gladiators-take-first-in-willits-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5304","title":{"rendered":"Gladiators take pair of firsts in Willits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tucker, Garner nail down weight division victories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WILLITS &gt;&gt; Elijah Tucker and Riley Garner of the Gladiator Wrestling Club earned first-place medals Sunday at the sixth annual Bob Colvig Invitational at Willits High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tucker won the 10-under, 77-pound division and also finished second in the 12-under, 70-74 division. He finished the tournament with the most pins of any wrestler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garner won the 12-under, 135-pound division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gladiators also collected a second-place medal at the Boardwalk Classic in Santa Cruz, Jayce Hubert winning the 8-under, 71.6-78.8 division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other top finishers in Willits were Javanni Alejo, second in the 12-under, 135-pound division, and Sophie Olea, who placed third in the 10-under, 77-pound division and third in the 10-under, 84-pound division. Placing fourth were Alejo in the middle school boys, 120-pound division, Kylie Dugger in the 12-under, 78-82 division, Elijah Lopez in the middle school boys, 100-105 division, and Fatima Rivera-Barbosa in the middle school girls, 85-90 division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEveryone wrestled hard,\u201d Gladiators coach Richard Tucker said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen a lot of improvement, but we still have work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker, Garner nail down weight division victories Lake County Sports on Facebook WILLITS &gt;&gt; Elijah Tucker and Riley Garner of the Gladiator Wrestling Club earned first-place medals Sunday at the sixth annual Bob Colvig Invitational at Willits High School. Tucker won the 10-under, 77-pound division and also finished second in the 12-under, 70-74 division. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,67,60,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5308,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions\/5308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}