CIF State Wrestling Day 2: Glendora's Scharbrough's fourth place leads four area medalists

Scharbrough, who won four matches on Friday to advance to the
semifinals, went 1-2 Saturday, losing to state No. 1 Jake Elliott
(8-5) of Oakmont in semifinals and Bakersfield's Damien Arredondo
(4-3) for third place. He beat Edison's Brenton Visnoski (8-0) in the
third-place semifinals.
"That was a very tough match," Scharbrough said of the loss to
Elliott. "I almost came up on top. I don't have any regrets. I did
what I could do.
"I'm just so happy what I did this tournament. I stayed strong, so
I'm happy with that."
Betancourt, who won three matches on Friday, took sixth after losing
to Righetti's Josh Rodriguez (5-2) in the semifinals and consolation
bouts to Exeter's Arnulfo Olea (fall, 4:51) and Bakersfield's Ian
Nickell (5-1).
"I came here unranked," Betancourt said. "I just tried to wrestle
smart the first day. The second day didn't go as planned. I'm
pretty happy about placing sixth. I thought I did OK. Overall, it was
a pretty good tournament for me."
Nakatani fought back for a seventh-place after losing in the
quarterfinals on Friday. He beat Victor Lopez (3-2) of Calexico in
the consolation fifth round, lost to Hermilo Esquivel (fall, 2:16) in
the third-place quarterfinals before beating Silverio Esparza (10-3)
of Lemoore for seventh place.
"I had to show people I could compete," Nakatani said. "I had tough
matches, but I fought hard, believed in my coaches and the Northview
family.
"I was wrestling for my (wrestling) brother Jesse Cruz, who passed a
way, and my mom who passed away. My grandfather passed away a while
ago, too. I just came out here, wrestled hard and showed the state of
California that I can compete."
Morales, who won his last four matches on Friday to advance to
Saturday, beat Oscar Lizarraga of Brawley (3-1) in the consolation
fifth round before losing consolation matches to Adam Pain (fall,
1:32) of Rodriguez and Chris Calcagno (fall, :23) of Clovis West.