KINGSTON – The Bainbridge High varsity wrestling team came up just short at an away meet against Kingston High Tuesday, suffering a 39-34 defeat.

It was a mix of both losses by forfeit, pins and wins by decision that left Bainbridge behind.

The host school claimed a win by forfeit right away in the 106-pound class.

But, BHS answered with a forfeit win of their own in the 113-pound match.

Then, in the 120-pound match, Josh Bayne pinned Bainbridge’s Cade Topham in 5:01.

Bainbridge then got on a bit of a run, claiming three consecutive wins.

Both Jonathan Gallivan and Greg Williams claimed decision wins for BHS in the 126- and 132-pound matches, 2-0 and 13-5 respectively, and Fernando Soria locked up the 138-pound match, winning by forfeit.

Then the tide shifted the other way.

In the 145-pound match, George Wedig pinned Nate Michaels of BHS in 1:22.

Kingston’s Nick Woltersdorf claimed a win by decision (5-2) in the 152-pound match over Hague Bush.

Aaron Jumpa pinned Kingston’s Riley Zook in 1:17 to claim a Spartan win in the 160-pound match and Joaquin Gurza likewise scored one for BHS when he pinned Alec Maxwell in 1:30 in the 170-pound match.

Spartan scrapper Liam Topham claimed a 3-0 decision win in the 182-pound contest.

Finally, Kingston wrapped up the final three matches (195-, 220- and 285-pounds) with forfeit wins.