MOUNT VERNON, Ga. – Taking care of the task at hand to the tune of a 24-point advantage before the other side could even blink, the seventh-ranked Presbyterian women's wrestling team thoroughly defeated Brewton-Parker in a first-time meeting between the two schools on Friday evening in the Peach State, cruising to a 29-17 W (their sixth dual victory of the year in nine outings).

As has quickly become the theme of the Blue Hose's campaign, the damage was dealt swiftly by usual suspects Samantha Miller (101), Cassandra Lopez (109), and Ainslie Lane (116) who all gathered lightning-fast pins at the contest's start. 123-pounder Olivia Waller followed suit with a similar-styled win in the ensuing round to make it 20-0 Presbyterian, a hole that more than compensated for PC's forfeits in the 170 and 191 bouts due to injury.

Catherine "CG" Bertrand and Paige Wehrmeister helped interim head coach Brian Vutianitis' crew gather eight additional points by scooping up technical falls in the 130 and 143 slots, giving the Blue Hose 34 TF's since the season's opening over two months back.

Perhaps no member of the significantly-deep PC roster has been on a roll quite like Lane's last two weeks, picking up where she left off after a 5-0 individual pace at the NWCA National Duals in Louisville six days ago (an event where all five opponents were nationally ranked, two of which within the country's top five). Now at 18-3 on the season – an impressive 86% chance of a win – the senior has ended with her hand raised eight consecutive times, claiming a victory in 10 out of her last 12 appearances dating back to Chicago's Midlands Championships on December 30.

Miller has breezed through her recent endeavors as well, holding down her status as PC's opening bout by grabbing six wins out of her last eight attempts beside a 17-4 overall record. Wehrmeister, meanwhile, continued what's been a stellar freshman year by taking not one but two victories against the Barons (one pin and one tech in standard and exhibition play), extending her team-best record to 21-3.

One of six different grapplers on the roster to have scattered 16 wins or more since November, Bertrand's ascent as a sophomore has emerged as another of Presbyterian's newsworthy developments in the program's fourth season. Competing back in her home state on Friday, the Dunwoody native secured her fourth technical fall of the season during the dominant win, helping increase the group's season win collection to 124.
 
RESULTS
101 – Samantha Miller (PC) def. Elora Waterman (BPC) by Fall, 2:28 – 5-0 PC
109 – Cassandra Lopez (PC) def. Gabriela Galvez (BPC) by Fall, 1:56 – 10-0 PC
116 – Ainslie Lane (PC) def. Jamesa Robinson (BPC) by Fall, 2:29 – 15-0 PC
123 – Olivia Waller (PC) def. Ali Rodgers (BPC) Fall, 1:57 – 20-0 PC
130 – Catherine "CG" Bertrand (PC) def. Jorie Richardson (BPC) by TF, 10-0 – 24-0 PC
136 – Leidaly Rivera (BPC) def. Sierra Marie Miller (PC) by Dec., 12-7 – 24-3 PC
143 – Paige Wehrmeister (PC) def. Migdalys Ramos (BPC) by Fall, 2:17 – 29-3 PC
155 – India Page (BPC) def. Gabriella Shevlin (PC) by TF, 11-0 – 29-7 PC
170 – Taniyah Ford (BPC) won by Forfeit – 29-12 PC
191 – Savannah Pitts (BPC) won by Forfeit – 29-17 PC
 
UP NEXT
Easily posting their sixth head-to-head victory of the year, the Blue Hose – a fixture in the NWCA's top ten since the 2022-23 preseason – will stay in the duals setting exactly one week from now, although this time with the Templeton Center as a backdrop for a January 20 meeting against Ferrum.

Pegged for a likely start time of 6:00 p.m., PC's evening tussle with the Panthers will serve as Senior Day for Lane, Lopez, Isabella Badon, and Morgan Norris, the final time that Presbyterian's women's squad will compete in Clinton over the remainder of the semester.

It hasn't been a smooth start to the season for Ferrum, a unit that has only been able to muster a single win out of nine dual matches. The Blue Hose and the Panthers share a mutual opponent in Mount Olive, a team that PC handled at home 37-10 before the Trojans went on to beat Ferrum a week later by a 35-9 clip.