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The Roanoke Rapids High School Wrestling Team placed 5th at the River City Invitational in Elizabeth City this past weekend which sported 21 teams from Virgina and North Carolina.

285 lbs. Antonio Lawrence was champion at his weight class.

145 lbs. Aaron Purser placed second.

132 lbs. Jacob Bouchard placed third along with Aaron Hunter at 170.

Top six place finishers were Harry Crawford at 106 lbs. and Jermmy Clemmons at 182 lbs.

Top eight at 113 lbs. Caleb Benjamin and Wallace Bowser at 152 lbs.

Other particapents were Logan Hall and Payton Anderson.

Post tournamt comments from Jackets head coach DA White, "We wrestled well considering we had to leave four of our starter out of rotation due to illness or injury Ethan Dixon, Johnathan Olnhausen, Christian Doisey and Jordan Hernendez.  I was proud of the results."


The Roanoke Rapids High School Yellow Jackets wrestling team's last home match is this Wednesday against Northern Nash and Northampton Co. Starting at 6:00 pm and will be hosting the Northern Carolina Conference Wrestling Tournament on 01-16-19.

The Jackets now stand at 11-3 overall and 4-0 in the conference.