Goochland's Ella Adamson places among top finishers at VHSL Girls State

Ella Adamson of Goochland wrestled in the 152-pound bracket at the VHSL Girls State Open Championships Feb. 24-25 at the Henrico Sports & Events Center in Glen Allen, with multiple match listings placing her among the tournament’s top finishers but disagreeing on exact placement and match outcomes. Vawrestle’s placement list records a Fifth Place line: "Fifth Place: Ella Adamson (Goochland) fall Abigail Eggleston (Amherst) 1:38."

FloWrestling’s event listings, which include match video titles, present a different account. FloWrestling’s excerpt contains a 3rd-place match line reading "3rd Place Match - Margaret Page (Radford) 10-5 won by fall over Ella Adamson (Goochland) 12-6 (Fall 2:00)" and also lists multiple match-level lines showing Ella Adamson winning by fall over Lila Jaster (South Lakes) and over Abigail Eggleston (Amherst County) with times of 4:18 and 5:03 respectively. The Flowrestling lines show "Ella Adamson (Goochland) 11-4 won by fall over Lila Jaster (South Lakes) 12-4 (Fall 4:18)" and "Ella Adamson (Goochland) 10-4 won by fall over Abigail Eggleston (Amherst County) 22-7 (Fall 5:03)."

Those bracket-level discrepancies sit alongside a localized match report from the Lexington News-Gazette that documents a quarterfinal bout involving Goochland and Rockbridge County. The News-Gazette reports, "In the first round, Shorter pinned Woodbridge Senior’s Stephany Ponce in 4:50. Shorter then faced Goochland’s Ella Adamson in the quarterfinals and was pinned in 3:32." The News-Gazette also notes Rockbridge’s Tasha Shorter finished the week 2-2 at 152 pounds, ended the season 19-4, and was coached by Kage Tomlin and Avari Johnson.

The sources also conflict on the 152-pound championship. Vawrestle’s placement list names Hayden Mayo (King Fork) as the 152-pound champion with a 2-1 decision over Elena Carter, while FloWrestling’s 1st-place match entry lists Cameron Millsapps (Wakefield) defeating Elena Carter by fall. Formatting oddities in the FloWrestling excerpt - for example duplicated score pairs in single lines - suggest extraction or transcription errors in the provided excerpts.

What is established across all sources is that Ella Adamson competed at 152 pounds at the Feb. 24-25 VHSL girls state event in Glen Allen and appeared in placement-level match listings. To resolve the conflicting accounts definitive confirmation requires consulting the official VHSL brackets or playing the FloWrestling match videos listed for the 152-pound bracket, and contacting Goochland High School athletics for the program’s official result. Until those primary records are checked, reporting should reflect that multiple credible listings place Adamson among the top finishers at 152 pounds while the precise placement and match times remain inconsistent across available excerpts.