Eagle boys finish 18th in Class 5A state tournament

HOOD RIVER — The six-member Hood River Valley boys wrestling team scored 23 points and finished 18th at the 2026 OSAA Class 5A state wrestling tournament this past weekend.

Thurston from Eugene won the 2026 title with 291 points at the Feb. 26-28 tournament at Portland’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

The HRV Eagles were led by the fourth-place finish of 138-pound senior Leyton Adams. He lost in the first round, 8-6, to West Albany’s Tyler Bloomfield, but won four straight consolation matches — two by fall and two by decision — to earn a spot in the third-place match. There he squared off against Northwest Oregon Conference champion and No. 4 seeded Emiliano Arreola of Hillsboro. Arreola, a 2025 state wrestler, won by fall in the first round. (West Albany’s Bloomfield had finished sixth at state in 2025, attesting to the competitive nature of the 138-pound bracket.)

HRV junior Risor Reierson won two of four matches at state at 190 pounds. He won by decision over McKay High’s Carlos Montes in the first round but lost by fall in the quarterfinals to eventual state champion Ryland Walters of team runner-up Crater. Reierson’s third-period takedown was enough to push him past Kody Dow of Thurston, 5-4, in the consolation rounds. Reierson’s season ended after his next match, where Cash Nekouie of Eagle Point beat him, 11-1.

Copeland Louis went 2-for-4 at state, with his losses coming to placing wrestlers at 126 pounds. Louis, a sophomore, lost by technical fall in the first round to eventual third-place finisher, Lorenzo Romero-Hill, a junior from Dallas. Louis responded with back-to-back consolation wins by decision — 8-4 over Silverton’s Caleb Davis and 13-7 over Hillsboro’s Jaden Vongthongthip (a 2025 state tourney competitor). The sixth seed and eventual sixth-place finisher, A.J. Perez of Crater ended Louis’ season with a 10-0 win. Perez also is a two-time state competitor.

Sophomore Drew Lucas won one of three 132-pound matches at state, by pin after leading 12-1, in the first round of consolation. Lucas lost to junior Brett Jermain of Eagle Point in the first round and to senior Philip Alger of Crater in the consolation’s second round. Alger went on to finish fifth. Lucas also competed at state in 2025 at 113 pounds, as did Alger at 126.

Ethan Clough lost both his 120-pound matches at state, including a 6-2 decision in the consolation round. Teammate Tsadiku Coffman also lost twice at state, having had to face eventual third-place finisher Evan Provost of Crook County in the 126-pound first round; Provost finished third at state in the 2025 Class 4A tourney.