Point Loma High School wrestlers finished in fifth place overall and one team member won his weight class title during the recent City Championship tournament. Kevin Desta, a four-year veteran of the Pointer team, defeated Nathan Bush of Mira Mesa for the 287-pound heavyweight title in the event held at San Diego High School. Desta\u2019s victory came in a 6-1 decision in the title match. The Pointers totaled 149 points as a team at the meet, with Mira Mesa, champion of PLHS\u2019s Eastern League, winning the team title with 205.5 points. La Jolla finished second at 188 points. Patrick Henry, which the Pointers defeated in an earlier league match, finished third with 164.5 points and University City was fourth with 161. In the 108-pound class, Pointer Chase Harris finished second after being pinned by Morse\u2019s Laron McGee. Pointer Ryan Martinez finished third at 154 pounds, defeating Cheng Moua of Hoover in a 10-6 decision. Keegan Bell of PLHS also took a third-place medal with a pin of Robert Lozano of University City. At 222 pounds, Pointer Jovanny Sanchez also took third-place honors with a 4-2 decision over Justin Trento of Mira Mesa. Wrestling at 172 pounds, Pointer Bailey Dugdale pinned Cathedral Catholic\u2019s Peter Haddad for a fifth-place finish.\u00a0 At 115 pounds, Harris\u2019 brother, Michael, finished in sixth place. Chase Scillato of Point Loma finished sixth at 128 pounds, as did Pointer Martin Cervantes at 147 pounds and Tony Melfi at 184 pounds. The strong showing by the Pointers put a validation stamp on the hard work coaches Phil Moore and Myles Doughty have done over recent years. The coaches have also begun a wrestling program for youngsters in the Peninsula area to develop future Pointer talent.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Point Loma High School wrestlers finished in fifth place overall and one team member won his weight class title during the recent City Championship tournament. Kevin Desta, a four-year veteran of the Pointer team, defeated Nathan Bush of Mira Mesa for the 287-pound heavyweight title in the event held at San Diego High School. Desta\u2019s […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":293837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"PLHS grapplers make strong showing at citywide tournament","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11561,11553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-peninsula-beacon","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}