SPOKANE, Wash. — Southern Oregon’s Kabb Christensen captured his first tournament title on Sunday, winning the 197-pound bracket at the Spokane Open by defeating teammate Justin Tripp in the final.

The Raiders sent 23 wrestlers to the tournament, 10 of whom left as top-six placers. Timothy Lopez was the runner-up at 133 pounds, and Dylan Mann was third at 157. Diesel Del Rosario (125) and Ben Hughes (285) placed fourth, Trevor Wolf (141) and Jaden Echeverria (285) were fifth, and Diego Cruz (157) and Carlos Garcia (184) were sixth.

Christensen, a Crater High product, went 4-0 with a pin on the day. He topped Eastern Oregon’s Stone Robledo by 11-1 major decision before his 5-4 win against Tripp in the championship. Tripp reached the final with a pin, a technical fall and two decisions.

Lopez recorded a fall and three consecutive technical falls to reach the 133 first-place match. There, he dropped a 14-6 major decision to unattached Alan Salguero.

Mann got his third-place finish by going 6-1 with three pins and a major decision. After losing his quarterfinal match, he won four straight in the consolation bracket.

On Saturday in Powder Springs, Ga., Southern Oregon’s Aaron Gandara and Evan Potter defended their top-three NAIA rankings with tournament championships at the Life University Open.

The No. 3-ranked Gandara won the 157-pound bracket and the No. 2-ranked Potter was perfect at 141 for the No. 9 Raiders, who also had a third-place finisher in 125-pounder Vonn Fenn. Tyler Rhue (141 pounds) and Asher Ruchti (197) placed fourth, Dylan Clark (133) and Adrian Chavez-Morales (184) were fifth, and Kyle Sieminski (125) and Dylan Straley (157) finished sixth.

Gandara, after opening with a technical fall and two decisions, finished his run with back-to-back sudden victories. He defeated No. 16 Ryan Bennett of Southeastern (Fla.) in the semifinals and No. 11 Fabian Padilla of Life (Ga.) in the final, both by 4-1 scores.

Potter maintained his perfect record with five bonus-point wins. After pinning Southeastern’s Jackson Crawford in his first match, his next two opponents — the unattached Jacob Ruiz and No. 12 Nick Moore of Campbellsville (Ky.) — bowed out with injury defaults. Potter was a 15-3 semifinal winner over No. 8 Thomas Williams of St. Thomas (Fla.), and his first-place match opponent forfeited.

Fenn, ranked No. 12 at 125, outlasted No. 13 Clarence Lee Green of Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) in his third-place match. Ruchti, ranked No. 9 at 197, also advanced to the third-place match in his bracket but sat it out.

Alex Hernandez, SOU’s No. 3-ranked 174-pounder, won his first match before leaving his next with a medical forfeit. He didn’t appear in the rest of the tournament.

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SPOKANE OPEN: At Spokane, Wash., in a tournament where 11 different schools were represented by multiple individuals, Southern Oregon left with 60% of the championship hardware on Sunday at the Spokane Open.

The No. 8-ranked Raiders’ dominant showing was bolstered by bracket titles for Malia Welch (117 pounds), Kaylee Annis (124), Carolina Moreno (131), Quilaztli Miguel-Lapham (160), Lillian Gradillas-Flores (180) and Kat Hingano (207). Notably, they went 4-0 in first-place matches against No. 3-ranked Providence (Mont.), their Cascade Conference rival.

Welch, a redshirt-freshman, entered the day unranked but scored a 15-9 upset over Providence’s No. 14 Isabelle Asuncion in the 117 final, capping a 4-0 outing. The top-ranked Moreno completed another tournament without surrendering a point, ending her run with a 10-0 technical fall over Providence’s No. 6 Alyssa Randles. Annis, unranked at 124, was the third Raider to defeat a nationally-ranked opponent in the finals, taking down No. 20 Kadence Beck of Eastern Oregon by 11-3 decision.

Miguel-Lapham started her big afternoon with three consecutive first-round pins and ended it with a 2-1 win over Providence’s Hailey Sutton. Gradillas-Flores victimized another Argo in her final, pinning Frances Porteous 20 seconds into it. Hingano went 3-0 with two pins and an injury default.

The Raiders also produced a pair of fourth-place finishers in Holland Wieber (145) and Sariah Zepeda (160).