Pittston Area’s Jaylin Marion split her four matches, all of which ended in pins, in the Central Regional Girls Wrestling Championships March 2 at Milton High School.
Marion wrestled with the boys team throughout the regular season because Pittston Area does not have girls wrestling. She entered the District 2 championships a week earlier and went 2-1, reaching the final and finishing second.
In the first year of Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association-sanctioned girls wrestling, Marion came up with two more wins on the regional level at 124 pounds.
Needing a top-four finish to get to the state tournament in Hershey, Marion wound up tied for seventh out of 12 wrestlers in her weight class.
Marion opened with a pin of State College’s Christine Armstrong in 2:40.
That win put Marion in the quarterfinals where she was pinned by eventual sixth-place finisher Savannah Carfley from Curwensville in 3:35.
Marion needed only 19 seconds to pin Bishop McCort’s Jessica McGuire in her first consolation bout. She was then eliminated in a pin by Hanover Area’s Kaidence Ankner, the fifth-place finisher, in 4:33.
