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Baker men's and women's wrestling team group picture at 2026 Jimmy May Open

Wildcats Close Out Regular Season with Second Annual Jimmy May Open

BALDWIN CITY - Competing in its final competition of the 2025-26 regular season, Baker women's wrestling hosted the Second Annual Jimmy May Open on Saturday at the Baldwin High School gym.

With 240 total wrestlers in action in Baldwin City, the Wildcats had three wrestlers earn top-six finishes, with a fifth-place showing from Chloe Herrick (117) and a pair of sixth-place outings from Aileya Sath (131) and Hailee Crosland (160).

Herrick, a junior from Harrisonville, Mo., went 4-2 in her matches on Saturday, including a pin against Ottawa's Sigrun Metzger, who ranks No. 13 in the NAIA, in the fifth round of the consolation bracket to secure a placement finish. She added another pin in her final match of the day to place fifth.

In a weight class that featured 35 total grapplers, Sath opened up her tournament run at 131 pounds in excellent fashion, rolling to four straight wins to reach the championship semifinals. She started off with a pin and a tech fall and then won her other two matches by decision before falling in her next three bouts.

Crosland won each of her first two matches in the 160-pound bracket, including a win over the NJCAA's third-ranked wrestler in Billie Bonwell of Southeast CC. After back-to-back decision wins, she fell in her next three matches and took sixth after battling in the placement matchup.

Margaret Jordan and Johanna Carrasco both came away with a combined seven wins between the pair in a highly competitive field at 180 pounds. Jordan recorded four victories overall and won three straight, punctuated by defeating another ranked OU wrestler in Ciera Hutton-Spieker, who is No. 10 nationally, in the fourth round of the consolation bracket.

Carrasco won three matches and also had a top-20 victory after knocking off the NAIA's No. 18 wrestler in Grace Timmons of Central Methodist.

Closing the books on its regular season, Baker will now turn its attention to postseason action, starting off with the 2025-26 Heart of America Conference Championships, which is set to take place on Feb. 28 in Oskaloosa, Iowa.

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