Noble’s Hannah Perro, top, and Marshwood’s Kelsie Strong wrestle in the duals state championships Feb. 1 in Sanford. Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald

Hannah Perro of Noble High repeated as a champion of the 100-pound division at the New England Interscholastic Girls Wrestling Championship on Sunday, and was joined by three other Maine girls as champions at a two-day tournament at the Providence Career and Technical Academy in Rhode Island.

Delaney Frost, Perro’s teammate, won at 120 pounds.

Sisters Nevaeh and Sophie Grunhuvd of Massabesic won the 132- and 138-pound championships, respectively, leading the Mustangs to a third-place finish among 99 teams with 58.5 points. Noble, which won the inaugural girls team championship in 2024, was fourth with 57 points, behind Connecticut teams Norwalk (63) and Trumbull (60).

In the boys tournament at the same venue, Marshwood/Traip sophomore Kylan Berry was the top Maine finisher, placing second in the 113-pound division.

Perro, a junior, Noble’s varsity co-ed wrestler at 106 pounds, and a three-time winner in the Maine girls championship, dominated her division. She won all four matches by pin and did not allow a point.

“This year, I was trying to live up to what I did last year, and coming in I was confident. Getting the No. 1 seed helped. I was put in a pretty good spot,” said Perro, who will have surgery to repair an injured shoulder in two weeks.

Frost, who was second at 120 pounds in 2024 and is a two-time state champion, won her first three matches convincingly then beat Adrianna DeGroat of Framingham (Massachusetts), 9-7, in the final. Frost had split matches against DeGroat during the season, winning by pin and losing in overtime.

“So I knew she was good and it was going to be a good match,” Frost said. “I was thinking about (New Englands) all year and training hard to not get second again.”

The Grunhuvd sisters, both juniors, twice earned podium finishes at the Montana girls championship before their family moved to Maine prior to this school year. Both are undefeated against girls this season, with Nevaeh now 25-0 (84-13 in her career) and Sophie 20-0 (80-10).

Massabesic’s Nevaeh Grunhuvd, top, bears down on Kylie Biter of Oxford Hills during the 132 pound final at the girls state championship earlier this year. Grunhuvd won the New England title this past weekend.Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Nevaeh Grunhuvd, the second seed in the 132-pound division, won two of her first three matches by pin before edging top-seed Rylee Donohue of Norwalk, 7-4. She had to rally from deficits in both the quarterfinal and final. She trailed 7-0 in the quarterfinal before escaping from an early near pin situation. From there she controlled things and won, 9-7. Donahue offered match-long resistence, Nevaeh Grunhuvd said.

“It was definitely a fight that I had to go through to get that.”

Sophie Grunhuvd had little difficulty advancing to the final, where she recorded her third pin against No. 11 seed Maxine Spencer of Erskine Academy. It was the fourth time this season she had beaten Spencer in a tournament final. Sophie Grunhuvd said her 11-0 major decision in the quarterfinal, the second match on day one, was her toughest match “because I was so tired because we still had to weigh in the next day.”

About four times as many girls wrestled in Montana than in Maine in 2024. The Grunhuvds were touted in the preseason as top-level wrestlers.

“Taking the New England titles it was like, yeah, we’re good here and we’re good there,” Sophie Grunhuvd said. “And those matches in New Englands where they were at our level, that kind of proved it wasn’t just easy and we had to earn it.”

In the boys 113-pound division, Berry, a sophomore at Traip Academy, lost 5-4 to top-seed Cole Lemovitz of team champion Ponaganset (Rhode Island) in the final.

Lemovitz won the 106-pound division in 2024 and was ranked first in New England. Berry led 4-3 after putting Lemovitz on his back in the second period. Lemovitz eventually worked a reversal for the match’s final score.

“I almost had him. I had him on his back at one point. I heard the crowd and they were all like, ‘Ohhhh,’ kind of surprised because he’s never really been to his back by a kid from New England,” said Berry, who went 58-2 overall this season.

Berry avenged his only other loss when he beat Cole Glynn of Lawrence (Massachusetts) Central Catholic, 5-1, in the semifinal. Glynn had edged Berry at the Noble Invitational final. Both wrestlers train at Smitty’s Barn in New Hampshire.

Other Maine girls who placed in the two-day tournament were: Kelsie Strong, Marshwood/Traip, third, 100; Sora Mae Bukoski, Ellsworth, fourth, 107; Catori Watson, Mountain Valley, fifth, 107; Brooklyn Webber, Mt. Blue, sixth, 126; Martina Gili Fernandez, MCI, fourth, 145; Ava McGinnis, Nokomis, second, 152; Zady Paige, Belfast, third, 165; Grace Jean, Caribou, sixth, 185; Lillian Soper, Bucksport, third, 235.

Maine boys who placed in the top six included: Evan Kowalsky, Mt. Ararat, sixth, 120; Adam St. Cyr, Lincoln Academy, sixth, 144; Brady Ouellette, Noble, sixth, 150; Hudson Lufkin, Dirigo, fifth, 157; Joseph Lathwood, Biddeford/Thornton, sixth, 165; Eli Potter, Wells, sixth, 215; Geza Labancz, Fryeburg Academy, fourth, 285.