Orange County’s Braedon Atkinson (right) battled Millbrook’s Asa Doyle in the 215-pound semifinals during Saturday’s VHSL Class 4D regional championship held in the Hornets Sports Center in Orange. Doyle won by decision, 10-5 to take second in the class while Atkinson placed third. Atkinson will be 1 of 7 Hornets participating in the VHSL Class 4 state championship in two weeks in Virginia Beach. PJR photo by Mark O’Connell.
At Saturday’s Virginia High School League Class 4D wrestling championship at Orange County High School, it must have felt like déjà vu to anyone who witnessed last year’s results, for they were nearly identical.
For the second straight year, James Wood (Winchester) claimed the crown, Salem settled for the runner-up trophy, and Orange finished in the fifth spot among the fifteen teams: a replicate of a year ago…