Noble's Hannah Perro, top, and Marshwood's Kelsie Strong wrestle in the duals state championships Feb. 1 in Sanford. Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald
Hannah Perro of Noble High repeated as a champion of the 100-pound division at the New England Interscholastic Girls Wrestling Championship on Sunday, and was joined by three other Maine girls as champions at a two-day tournament at the Providence Career and Technical Academy in Rhode Island.
Delaney Frost, Perro's teammate, won at 120 pounds.
Sisters Nevaeh and Sophie Grunhuvd of Massabesic won the 132- and 138-pound championships, respectively, leading the Mustangs to a third-place finish among 99 teams with 58.5 points. Noble, which won the inaugural girls team championship in 2024, was fourth with 57 points, behind Connecticut teams Norwalk (63) and Trumbull (60).
In the boys tournament at the same venue, Marshwood/Traip sophomore Kylan Berry was the top Maine finisher, placing second in the 113-pound division.
Perro, a junior, Noble's varsity co-ed wrestler at 106 pounds, and a three-time winner in the Maine girls championship, dominated her division. She won all four matches by pin and did not allow a point.
"This year, I was trying to live up to what I did last year, and coming in I was confident. Getting the No. 1 seed helped. I was put in a pretty good spot," said Perro, who will have surgery to repair an injured shoulder in two weeks.
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Frost, who was second at 120 pounds in 2024 and is a two-time state champion, won her first three matches convincingly then beat Adrianna DeGroat of Framingham (Massachusetts), 9-7, in the final. Frost had split matches against DeGroat during the season, winning by pin and losing in overtime.
"So I knew she was good and it was going to be a good match," Frost said. "I was thinking about (New Englands) all year and training hard to not get second again."
The Grunhuvd sisters, both juniors, twice earned podium finishes at the Montana girls championship before their family moved to Maine prior to this school year. Both are undefeated against girls this season, with Nevaeh now 25-0 (84-13 in her career) and Sophie 20-0 (80-10).
Noble's Hannah Perro wrestles Massabesic's Remington Grunhuvd in the 106-pound final at the Class A South championships last month. Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald
Nevaeh Grunhuvd, the second seed in the 132-pound division, won two of her first three matches by pin before edging top-seed Rylee Donohue of Norwalk, 7-4. Sophie Grunhuvd entered as the fifth seed at 138. She also had little difficulty advancing to the final, where she pinned No. 11 seed Maxine Spencer of Erskine Academy.
In the boys 113-pound division, Berry, a sophomore at Traip Academy, lost 5-4 to top-seed Cole Lemovitz of team champion Ponaganset (Rhode Island) in the final.
Lemovitz won the 106-pound division in 2024 and was ranked first in New England. Berry led 4-3 after putting Lemovitz on his back in the second period. Lemovitz eventually worked a reversal for the match's final score.
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"I almost had him. I had him on his back at one point. I heard the crowd and they were all like, 'Ohhhh,' kind of surprised because he's never really been to his back by a kid from New England," said Berry, who went 58-2 overall this season.
Berry avenged his only other loss when he beat Cole Glynn of Lawrence (Massachusetts) Central Catholic, 5-1, in the semifinal. Glynn had edged Berry at the Noble Invitational final. Both wrestlers train at Smitty's Barn in New Hampshire.
Other Maine girls who placed in the two-day tournament were: Kelsie Strong, Marshwood/Traip, third, 100; Sora Mae Bukoski, Ellsworth, fourth, 107; Catori Watson, Mountain Valley, fifth, 107; Brooklyn Webber, Mt. Blue, sixth, 126; Martina Gili Fernandez, MCI, fourth, 145; Ava McGinnis, Nokomis, second, 152; Zady Paige, Belfast, third, 165; Grace Jean, Caribou, sixth, 185; Lillian Soper, Bucksport, third, 235.
Maine boys who placed in the top six included: Evan Kowalsky, Mt. Ararat, sixth, 120; Adam St. Cyr, Lincoln Academy, sixth, 144; Brady Ouellette, Noble, sixth, 150; Hudson Lufkin, Dirigo, fifth, 157; Joseph Lathwood, Biddeford/Thornton, sixth, 165; Eli Potter, Wells, sixth, 215; Geza Labancz, Fryeburg Academy, fourth, 285.
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