By virtue of a 5-2 record in the 120-pound division at the CIF State Wrestling Championships, Burlingame senior Lauren Aguilar earned a spot of the state podium with a seventh-place finish.
Lauren Aguilar
With the tournament spanning three days at Mechanics Bank Arena in Bakersfield, Aguilar clinched a medal with a win in the second round of the consolation bracket, typically referred to as the “blood round,” with a 10-5 decision Saturday over Benecia’s Svea Gonzalez, qualifying her for the top-eight medal cutoff. She dropped to the seventh-place match after a loss to Poway’s Ava Ebrahimj via 13-9 decision.
In the seventh-place match, Aguilar won via medical forfeit over Oak Ridge’s JJ DeLeon.
This marks Aguilar’s second straight trip to the state tournament. She has earned back-to-back Central Coast Section championships. She did not medal as a junior at the state tourney last season.
Two other San Mateo County wrestlers reached the blood round, but fell short of the podium.
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At 110s, Terra Nova junior Sophia Darer posted a 3-2 record at the tournament. She was defeated in the the blood round Saturday by Martin Luther King’s Giada Tanahara via second-round fall. Darer is also a reigning two-time CCS champion, and was appearing at her second straight state tourney.
At 125s, St. Francis sophomore Katherine Love, a San Mateo native, posted a 2-2 record to qualify for the state top 12 for the second straight year. Love fell in the blood round in a stunning finish via third-round pin against Elk Grove’s Skye Schneider. The match was tied 0-0 until the closing seconds, when Schneider scored a reversal and earned the fall 4:57 into the match.
Unlike a standard wrestling match timed at six minutes, matches in the consolation bracket span five minutes of regulation, including a one-minute first round.
Love earned her first CCS championship the previous weekend in San Jose. In 2023-24, she finished in third place at 120s at the CCS tournament. She moved up to 125s this year.
Darer and Love were both named to the National Dual Team, and will represent California at the 2025 Women’s National Duals held June 17-22 in Westfield, Indiana.
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