Cedar Ridge Wrestling

This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is sophomore wrestler Juan Jaramillo. From the start of the season in November, Jaramillo set a dominant tone for a Cedar Ridge squad that marched through the Big 7 Conference undefeated to a league championship. On November 22, Jaramillo won the championship of the Red Wolf…

After 24 years as a wrestling program, Cedar Ridge was one win away from crowning its first individual state champion. In a season filled with championships and milestones, senior Favio Jaramillo just missed out on a storybook finish. At the 5A State Championships at First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro on February 21, Jaramill0 became the…

This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is freshman wrestler Ella-Grace Reed. On February 14, Reed became the first Hillsborough woman to win a regional wrestling championship. At Seaforth High School in Pittsboro, Reed pinned Maliyah Jackson of South Brunswick in 1:23 in the championship match at 138 pounds. It has been a…

The stakes were never higher for a night of wrestling inside Red Wolf Gymnasium. Through the quirk of winter weather and reclassification, the 5A State Dual Team Wrestling Eastern Regional semifinals, regional championship and the state championship would all be determined in one night in Hillsborough. It all happened last Wednesday and the result was…

Cedar Ridge sophomore Thalia Paterno was an instrumental part of a season that put Red Wolves wrestling in the record books. For starters, the Cedar Ridge women’s program became the first Big 7 Conference champions, going undefeated against league competition. They are the first team to claim a women’s conference wrestling championship locally. Along with…

PITTSBORO–For over a year, Favio Jaramillo has hang an empty bracket on a piece of cardboard up in his room. It’s been there since last winter, serving as a reminder of how far Favio has to go to reach the level he wants to attain. He put it up after he finished 4th in the…

PITTSBORO–With the burgeoning popularity of women’s wrestling, it’s inevitable there will be more regional champions from northern Orange County in the immediate future. But Ella-Grace Reed can always lay claim to being the first. Reed, of Cedar Ridge, pinned top-seeded Maliyah Jackson of South Brunswick to win the 138-pound 5A Eastern Regional Championship on Saturday…

Scott Metcalf has prepared his Cedar Ridge wrestling team for the state tournament since the season started in November. What he didn’t prepare for was a three-week layoff before the opening round match created by the winter weather. “It was a bit of a concern,” Metcalf said. Not that it mattered. For the second time…

A three week layoff created by winter weather didn’t deter the Cedar Ridge wrestling team from reaching the state quarterfinals in the 5A State Dual Team tournament. On Wednesday night at Cedar Ridge, the Red Wolves defeated Atkins Academic and Technology 47-29 in the opening round. Later in the night, the Red Wolves defeated Currituck…