Photos by Ray Hamill/HumboldtSports.com – Saturday’s H-DNL wrestling championships were held at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Lumberjack Arena

The Del Norte Warriors’ dominance on the local wrestling mats continued over the weekend.

Head coach Clinton Schaad and his wrestlers traveled to Lumberjack Arena to compete in the H-DNL Championships on Saturday and secured an incredible eighth straight boys league title.

And once again, it wasn’t even close.

A total of 12 Warriors placed in the top four in the 14 weight classes, including six champions and three who finished second.

“I thought we did really good,” Schaad said. “It’s always nice to go down and win a league title. We never take that for granted, and I thought the team wrestled really well overall, boys and girls.”

Four of the six Del Norte individual champions — Remington Escobedo (150 pounds), Wyatt Lewis (157), Davion Johnson (190) and Robert Reyes-Villegas (215) — pinned their way through the tournament, with Lewis named tournament Most Outstanding Upper Weight Wrestler.

“He did great,” Schaad said of Lewis. “He had a great day. Wyatt’s got really big credentials. He’s been doing well all year.”

So too has Fortuna’s Tyson Evanow, who was named the tournament Most Outstanding Lower Weight Wrestler after winning the title at 144.

Other Warriors who took home individual titles included freshman David Burshem at 113 and Thunder Lewis at 126.

Three of their teammates placed second in their weight divisions, including Lucas Lopez (106), Chulhs Bates (120) and Wyatt Sharp (132), while Jacob Burger placed third at 165.

As a team, Del Norte scored 209.5 points, which was 70 points better than second-placed Arcata (139.5).

Submitted photo – Del Norte’s Wyatt Lewis, left, and Fortuna’s Tyson Evanow were named the tournament Most Outstanding Wrestlers at the weekend league championships.

Fortuna (129.5), Eureka (105.5) and McKinleyville (94.5) rounded out the top five teams.

Arcata, Fortuna and Hoopa each had two winners on the day.

In addition to Evanow’s big performance at 144, his teammate Waylon Shaw won at 120.

For Arcata, Silven Yoder defeated Sharp 13-9 in the 132 final, while his teammate Coyle Walkner got the better of McKinleyville’s Thurman Henderson 11-6 in the 138 final.

Hoopa’s Donald Hostler and Santiago Moon each also won their weight divisions.

At 165, Hostler defeated Fortuna’s Jack Chipman 17-2 in the final, while at 175 Moon edged Fortuna’s Brayden Timmerman 5-4 in their final.

Rounding out the individual winners on the day, Eureka’s Logan Hunter defeated Del Norte’s Lopez 17-0 in the 105 final and Ferndale’s Angel Zaragoza defeated McKinleyville’s Calvin Woods 6-0 in the 285 final.

In addition to the championships for Yoder and Walkner, Arcata had three wrestlers finish second — Tyler Shelton at 113, Talon Villarruel at 126 and Chase Bickmore at 144.

Other second-placed finishers included Ferndale’s Preston Killingsworth at 150, Eureka’s John Gonsalves at 157, St. Bernard’s Kolton Hall at 190 and Fortuna’s Kingston Natt at 215.

Third-place finishers included Eureka’s Titus Cobb at 113, William Defenbaugh at 120, Jackson Vasquez-Reyes at 215 and Gilberto Hernandez at 285; McKinleyville’s Joe Schaeffer at 126, Na-Tess Marquez at 132, Francisco Mendez at 144 and Mason Ruiz at 150; Fortuna’s Jaylon Bean (106) and Tiki Bolden at 190; Arcata’s Max Lorenc at 157 and Brady Rains (175); and Hoopa’s Riley Baldy at 138.

The H-DNL wrestlers will now turn their attention toward this weekend’s North Coast Section Divisional championships, with the action getting under way on Friday and tuning for two days.

The Division-2 schools will compete at Novato and the Division-3 schools will compete at Clear Lake High.