Clovis West Shootout helps launch local season
Clovis High’s Justin Mejia is back for another season on the roster of the four-time defending state champions. The Cougars are No. 1 in this year’s staterankings as the first major local tournament of the season nears, the 25-team Clovis West Shootout.
State top-ranked 106-pounder Justin Mejia(@justin-mejia) of Clovis and 160-pounder Alex Garcia of Christopher-Gilroy headline the field for this weekend’s Clovis West Shootout, which serves as the first major local high school wrestling tournament of the season.
Mejia and Garcia are the highest of 77 state-ranked competitors scheduled to be part of a 25-team field that features seven of the Top 25 from California and the top-ranked school from Oregon in Henley-Klamath Falls.
State-ranked teams include four-time defending CIF State champion and this year’s No. 1 Clovis, No. 9 Gilroy, No. 10 Clovis West, No. 12 Fountain Valley, No. 16 Dinuba, No. 20 Del Oro-Loomis and No. 25 Hemet.
Wrestling in 24-man brackets begins at noon Friday and resumes at 10 a.m. Saturday at Clovis West. The finals are slated to start about 2 p.m. Saturday.
Tournament Teams:
Bullard High
Calvery Chapel
Christopher
Clovis High
Clovis High B
Clovis West B
Clovis West High School
Corcoran High
Del Oro A
Del Oro B
Dinuba B
Dinuba High
Dixon High
El Dorado High
Fountain Valley
Gilroy B Team
Gilroy High
Golden Valley Bakersfield
Granite Bay
Hanford West
Hemet High
Henley High
Jesuit
Liberty B
Liberty Bakersfield
Millis High
Modesto Christian
Porterville High
Servite High
Sutter Union
Victor Valley
Wasco
Watsonville High
