COURTESY PHOTO/TONY ADAMS -- Copperas Cove junior Kianna Childers competes in the Belton powerlifting meet on Saturday. Childers finished fifth in the 165-pound weight class.

Cove powerlifters, wrestlers and golfers have busy week

By TJ MAXWELL

Cove Leader-Press

The Lady Dawgs hit the weights for a pair of powerlifting meets, competing both Thursday and Saturday. 

Thursday they traveled west to Lampasas for competition.  Diana Lewis finished second in the 97-pound weight class while Noelle Childress finished fourth in the 123-pound weight class and Alexxis Smith claimed the fifth place in the 181 classification.

Saturday the girls headed east to Belton where they garnered a pair of first place honors.  Danielle Garcia placed first in the 220-pound class and Antanese Kinard nabbed a first in the 198 class.  Brianna Garretson and Sierra Brown finished third in each of their weight classes as Garretson competed in the 114-pund class and Brown in the 132-pound class.

Hailey Hawkins, Aspen Raine each finished fourth Raine in the 123-pound class and Hawkins in the 148-pound class.

Kianna Childers finished fifth in the 165-pound weight class.

The Cove boys also competed in this meet but no results were available as of press time.

Copperas Cove will host the next meet set for Saturday.

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Cove wrestlers compete in McCallum

Today the boys competed in the McCallum Dual Tournament and the girls competed at the McCallum individual tournament in Austin. Here are some of the results: Lane Teeter, Damian Harmon and Michael Venardos all finished with perfect records 3-0 while Tyler Teeter finished with a 2-1 record.  Other boys competing were Bobby Collier and Dalton Penick.

For the girls, Ariel Lewis finished in 2nd place while Jordan Welsh, Jazmine Kim, and Haley Petit finished in 4th place. Other girl wrestlers were Hannah Flores and Arianna Martinez.

“Each wrestler is getting better and better each week,” said Cove head wrestling coach Jeff Shannon. “This is the best we have looked. We have two more duals coming up before the district tournament on February 6th.”

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Morrison wins WTJCT event; Anderson, Fox also compete

The holiday break from the UIL schedule didn’t keep Cove seniors Tyler Morrison and Bryce Anderson from the links on the West Texas Junior Championship Tour and junior high golfer Elle Fox kept her calendar occupied as well with a third place finish on the Southern Texas PGA Junior Tour.

Morrison followed up a day one 84 with the best score of either day with a 78 on day two to wrap up the WTJCT New Year Classic at the Bentwood Country Club in San Angelo. Her two-day total of 162 bested Darby Ramsdell of Roosevelt (165) for the top spot and edged 12-6A rival Esther Ahn of Harker Heights by seven strokes.

After connecting on just one birdie in the first round, Morrison connected on four birdies in round two. Her biggest improvement came on the par five holes. She was +2 on par five holes on day one but improved to -3 on day two. She also cut down her double bogeys from four to two.

Anderson finished mid-pack in the boys’ 15-18 division. He followed a day one 86 up with an 87 on day two for a two-day total of 173 and a tie for eighth place. 

Fox shot an 84 to finish one stroke back of Bentley Cotton of Austin and Lily Gulley of Round Rock who tied atop the leaderboard with an 83.

Fox struggled a bit on the front nine with two double bogeys and just two pars but turned it around on the back nine, finishing with one birdie and four pars in the final six holes.

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