Round 3 Boxing club presented 15 USA Boxing sanctioned amateur boxing matches on Saturday at the Zillah High School gymnasium.

District wrestling begins this week for local teams. Toppenish and Wapato will travel to Central Valley High School in for CWAC competition.

Several Zillah wrestlers improved their individual records while helping picking up two important team wins last week. Zillah defeated rival Granger 37-27 at Granger on Tuesday before crushing Highland at home, 66-8 on Thursday. On Tuesday, Jan. 19, Zillah beat Granger 37-27 in SCAC West dual action. Both teams were unbeaten at 3-0.

Despite a tough weekend schedule, the Wapato Wolves played with confidence and upset the No. 2 ranked and undefeated Ephrata 70-66 on Friday night.

The rivalry atmosphere at A.J. Strom gymnasium was not be denied Saturday, Jan. 16 in Toppenish as the Toppenish Wildcats and Wapato Wolves battled it out on the hardwood before a packed house.

Omar Gomez (103) won Wapato’s lone individual title at the Ray Westberg Invitational tournament on Saturday, Jan. 16 in Ellensburg. Gomez defeated Diblert Villa of Othello 12-6 in the championship match.

The Wapato Wolves kept things interesting in the CWAC standings with a sweep over two league opponents this past weekend.  Wapato has a  4-2 league record, 5-3 for the season and are tied for third with Grandview behind Ephrata (6-0) and Selah (5-1).

Two-time state champion Chris Castillo and teammate Kyle Kluever won titles to lead the Zillah Leopards to the team championship at the 37th annual Wapato Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 9.

Granger started out slow against a significantly taller Vashon Island team, but was finally able to put their game in gear as they eventually dominated them 48-28 in the SunDome Shootout Tuesday, Dec. 29 in Yakima.  Vashon had two players at 6-0 and one other at 6-5.

The Wapato Wolves were unable to put the clamps on Selah’s Nick Longmire and the Vikings were able to pull out a 76-62 CWAC league win in Selah on Tuesday, Dec. 22.