Hood River Valley’s Christian Marquez finished second at 132 pounds at the Oregon Class 5A wrestling championships at Portland Memorial Coliseum, losing 7-1 in the final to Matt Hofenbredl of Dallas in a match that was followed by tragedy. Hofenbredl’s grandfather suffered a fatal heart attack while watching the match in the upper level of the Coliseum. Hofenbredl was celebrating his victory when a family member came down from the seats, and the wrestler promptly ran up into the crowd. His grandfather was identified by the website OregonLive as Larry Hofenbredl, The website reports emergency personnel were briefly able to get a pulse, but could not rescue the man. Matt Hofenbredl and his Dallas teammates quickly left the arena, missing the medal presentation ceremony.
Earlier, Jason Shaner of HRV finished sixth at 120 pounds, splitting his six matches during the tournament.
Three Hood River Valley wrestlers won titles in the girls’ state championship event, also at the Coliseum. Jessica DeHart won at 106 pounds, defeating Trynadii Rocha of Lincoln by fall 2:51 into the championship match. At 113, Sarah Sullenger stopped Triangle Lake’s Bailee Davis in the final by fall at 4:53. And Payton Rigert won by fall at 152, defeating Katherine Dennis of Cottage Grove by fall at 1:59.
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