Fast growth secures Benton Central's first IHSAA girls wrestling sectional title

Lafayette area top plays of the week Harrison junior guard Brody Baker hosts the Lafayette area plays of the week featuring a reel of pins and buzzer beaters. LAFAYETTE - Benton Central girls wrestling has numbers that were almost too small to count just two seasons ago. Three wrestlers came out in 2023-24 and the number doubled to a modest six girls the season after. Now the wrestling room is buzzling with a team that walked in looking to prove it could hang with the traditional powerhouses of Lafayette Jeff, McCutcheon and Harrison. And it left the IHSAA sectional girls wrestling championships with hardware and history. Benton Central captured the program's first IHSAA sectional girls...