Eight girls from Connecticut helped Beat the Streets New England win the National Duals in Chicago. (Photo courtesy Connecticut USA Wrestling)
Eight girls from Connecticut were part of a Beat the Street New England team that won the Best the Street National Duals tournament in Illinois earlier this week.
Twelve teams and more than 250 athletes in grades 7-12 meet outside of Chicago for a four days of wrestling and fellowship.
Beat the Street (BTS) New England won the tournament with a 43-24 win over BTS Los Angeles with seven Connecticut girls in the starting lineup – Selena Batres (94) and Kayla Batres (106), Cecilia Virrelli (112), Shyan Rolle (122), Rylee Donohue (132), Kelly Aspras (152) and Kayli Morris (225). Brianna Seixas also wrestled for BTS New England.
In pool play, BTS New England won all three of their matches with victories of BTS Baltimore, 63-9, BTS Cleveland, 49-23 and over the Red White and Blue team, 58-13.
BTS New England 43, BTS Los Angeles 24
At Bedfford, Illinois
106 Kayla Batres (BTS New England ) tech fall Marisa Alvarez (BTS LA) 10-0
112 Valeria Miranda (BTS LA) dec. Cecilia Virrelli (BTS New England ) 8-6
117 Chloe Ross (BTS New England ) pin Lia Uc (BTS LA) 0:25
122 Shyan Rolle (BTS New England ) tech fall Hailee Moreno (BTS LA) 10-0
127 Haely Lemus (BTS LA) tech fall Maria Medeiros (BTS New England ) 12-0
132 Rylee Donohue (BTS New England ) tech fall Alondra Feliciano (BTS LA) 10-0
138 Cece Ravanelle (BTS New England ) tech fall Alexa Calleja (BTS LA) 11-0
144 Paityn Delong (BTS New England ) pin Priscilla Monson (BTS LA) 0:42
152 Bella Arredondo (BTS LA) tech fall Kelly Aspras (BTS New England ) 14-4
164 Love Daley (BTS New England ) tech fall Litania Ayala (BTS LA) 12-0
180 Viviana Martinez Sanchez (BTS LA) pin Maura Pendegrast (BTS New England ) 3:27
200 Zoe Waters (BTS New England ) pin Jennifer Contreras (BTS LA) 1:10
225 Kayli Morris (BTS New England ) pin Katelyn Velez (BTS LA) 0:43
94 Sky Ramos (BTS LA) dec. Selena Batres (BTS New England ) 9-3
100 Alyaah Bravo (BTS LA) pin Kaydn Hansen (BTS New England ) 1:29
Records: BTS New England 4-0, BTS Los Angeles 3-1
