Ceres High School will be staging boys and girls wrestling tournaments this week.

Ceres High’s girls program will host the Third Annual SuperGirl Showdown this Friday.

The tournament will feature grapplers from 18 different schools, including CHS, Central Valley, Chavez, Denair, Edison, El Capitan, Firebaugh, Hayward, Johansen, Livingston, Patterson, Riverbank, Sanger, Santa Teresa, Staff, Venture Academy and Waterford.

The event will get underway at 9 a.m.

“This is something I wanted to do when I started coaching here,” Bulldogs’ leader Curtis Hulstine said. “I wanted to have a varsity tournament for the girls and that’s what we’ve done these past few years. Quality of competition has been higher than anything else locally when it comes to our tournament.”

The top team will take home a trophy.

The top six individuals in each weight class will be rewarded.

First-place finishers will take home capes, medals and shirts.

“I want to see continued improvement,” Hawks’ head coach Brandy Cordova said while talking about expectations for the tournament.

Ceres High and Central Valley won a combined nine medals at the 2023 SuperGirl Showdown.

The Hawks and Bulldogs finished third and eighth, respectively, in the team standings.

“We’ll have a good shot at (winning) the team title,” Hulstine said. “We’ve been doing well at other tournaments.”

Dayanna Alvarez, Madeline Schultz, Jazlyn Cisneros, Gabriella Cole, Abigail Schultz and Elizabeth Boyd will lead Ceres High this week.

Boyd took second with a 4-1 record while competing in the 170-pound weight bracket at the 2023 SuperGirl Showdown.

Alvarez took third with a 4-1 record at 135 pounds.

Alvarez has won three tourney titles this year.

Madeline Schultz has placed first twice and third once.

Cole has placed first and second once.

Boyd has placed first and third once.

Cisneros has placed first twice and fourth once.

Abigail Schultz has placed second and third once.

Jayden Corona, Mariana Nayares and Jordan Verjinski will lead Central Valley, which will be sending the core of its varsity team to the West Coast Tournament of Champions in Roseville instead of the SuperGirl Showdown.

“Because of the date change of the start of the season, they had to move the date (of the West Coast Tournament of Champions) and it just happened to land on SuperGirl,” Cordova said. “We started going to Roseville last year. There’s college scouts at the tournament.”

Ceres High’s boys program will stage the 58th Ceres Invitational this Saturday.

The event will feature wrestlers from 21 difference schools, including CHS, Central Valley, Big Valley Christian, Beyer, Bret Harte, Cesar Chavez, Grace Davis, Denair, Enochs, Franklin of Elk Grove, Johansen, Livingston, Manteca, Modesto High, Patterson, Pitman, Riverbank, Santa Teresa, Stagg, Venture Academy and Waterford.

The event will get underway at 9 a.m.

“I think we can finish in the top 10,” said Adam Borges, second-year leader of the Bulldogs. “That’s our goal. We got a good mix of old and younger wrestlers. I’m hoping all of our kids do well.”

“I’m pretty confident we can be in the top 10,” Hawks’ head Coach Rob Beckhart said. “Our goal is to place higher than teams in our league. Most of our kids will have a shot at medaling. We got to wrestle and see.”

The top team will take home a trophy.

The top six individuals in each weight class will be rewarded.

First-place finishers will take home championship rings.

Medals will be given to second-through-sixth-place wrestlers.

Plaques will be doled out to outstanding lower and upper weight grapplers.

Central Valley won two individual medals at the 57th Ceres Invitational.

The Hawks and Bulldogs finished 22nd and 30th, respectively, in the team standings.

Parker Borges, McCoy Adams, Jaime Torres, Alijah Jackson, Michael King and Calen Adams will lead Ceres High this week.

Borges compiled a 2-2 record in the 134-pound weight bracket of his home tournament a year ago.

McCoy Adams compiled a 2-2 record at 115 pounds.

Borges has placed fourth and fifth once this season.

McCoy Adams has placed sixth once.

Jackson has placed first once.

King has placed fourth once.

Torres has placed fifth once.

“I wrestled in the tournament when I was in high school,” Coach Borges said. “There’s a little added pressure with it being a home tournament. The seniors want to win. This is their last year.”

Angel Melgoza, Sal Almazan, Anthony Diaz, Phillip Esparza, Sunny Breshears, Caleb Beckhart and Anthony Diaz will lead Central Valley.

Melgoza took fifth with a 4-1 record at 177 pounds at the 2023 CHS tournament.

Almazan took eighth with a 3-3 record at 287 pounds.

Diaz compiled a 2-2 record at 167 pounds.

Esparza compiled a 2-2 record at 167 pounds.

Breashears compiled a 1-2 record at 140 pounds.

Beckhart compiled a 1-2 record at 128 pounds.

Melgoza has placed first and third once this fall.

Almazan has placed third and seventh once.

Breshears has placed fourth once.

Esparza has placed sixth once.

“We want tough matches right now,” said Coach Beckhart. “We learn when we’re being challenged.”