The Redmond High girls made some history on last weekend.

For the first time ever, the Panthers girls wrestling team had two wrestlers win championships at the Class 6A/5A state wrestling tournament at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. And by placing second with 114.5 points, Redmond had its highest team finish ever.

The Panthers finished just behind Thurston’s 124 points in the team title chase.

“It is the best we’ve done,” said Redmond girls wrestling coach Scott Lawrence. “Our goal was to win it. But I was really happy with how we wrestled.”

The Panthers were bolstered by two state champions in senior MacKenzie Shearon, who won her second title, and junior Mia Pedersen, who won her first.

“Both of them are the hardest workers in the room,” Lawrence said. “They both got what they deserved.”

As a sophomore in 2023, Shearon became the first Redmond girls wrestler to win a state title.

As a junior in 2024, she experienced just how difficult it is to be a repeat champion and fell in the state semifinals.

In her final time at the state meet, she left no doubt. Four of Shearon’s matches ended with a pin to complete the redemption tour.

Three of the four matches did not reach the second round, including the 145-pound championship bout in which Shearon pinned Dallas’s Jenna Rogers in 1 minute, 48 seconds.

“I was really nervous coming in,” said Shearon, who won 39 of her 40 matches this season. “Anything can happen at state, it has happened to me. I’m just glad I stuck to the plan and did what needed to be done.”

Not only was the win important for Shearon, it was crucial for the team, as it made the difference between finishing second or third in the team standings. Redmond finished with 114.5 points, just ahead of Dallas’s 113 points. Had the result of the match been anything but a pin or a technical fall, the Panthers would have finished third.

Pedersen had come extremely close to winning a state title the past two years, but as a freshman and a sophomore she lost in the finals.

Not this year.

Like Shearson, Pedersen dominated her weight class. She had three pins and a win by technical fall in her four matches. In the 120-pound championship match, Pedersen had her fastest match of the tournament with a pin of Silverton’s McKanyla Bonham in 1:38.

“I’ll probably remember this one for the rest of my life,” Pedersen said.

The Panthers sent nine wrestlers to the state meet, and including Shearon and Pedersen, five landed on the top-six podium.

Senior JaydaRae Nace finished third in the 140-pound class, senior Reina Barnes-Rubio placed fifth at 135 and sophomore Gemma DeLance finished sixth at 106.

Two additional Central Oregon wrestlers reached the finals of their weight classes. Caldera junior Joey Dean had three pins in her first three matches, but fell to Forest Grove’s Kailea Takahashi in the 125-pound finals. Mountain View junior Alana Troullier won her first four matches before falling to Crater’s Audrey Robinson in the 135-pound title match.