Collin Gaj completed a perfect season last weekend at the PIAA Wrestling Championship. The Quakertown senior captured his second career gold medal with an 11-2 victory over Altoona's Luke Sipes in the Class 3A 160-pound final Saturday.

Kim Supko Photography The referee raises the arm of Collin Gaj.  The Quakertown senior captured his second PIAA gold medal last weekend.

            Gaj (44-0) earned his fourth straight state medal with a major decision at the Giant Center in Hershey. His 182 career victories tied him for 17th place with Jaret Lane, a 2018 Southern Columbia graduate, on Pennsylvania's all-time win list.

            Gaj won a gold medal as a sophomore and finished second last season. He ended up in fourth place as a ninth grader and scored three technical falls to reach the gold medal match for the third straight season. He opened with a second-period win over Liam Costa, from Moon Township.

            Gaj won during the same period in the quarterfinal round, beating Klint Miller, a sophomore from ELCO. In the semifinals, he defeated Charlie Scanlan, a Bethlehem Catholic senior, early in the third period.

            Gavin Carroll, Gaj's classmate, finished seventh at 152 pounds. He defeated Bellefonte's Ezra Swisher 10-1 to earn his second straight state medal.

            Carroll (47-6) won two of his final three matches. He rebounded from a quarterfinal loss to pin Northampton's Chase Grabfelder.

            A 4-2 loss to Cade Campbell, a junior from Nazareth, sent him to the seventh-place bout. Carroll finished with 146 career wins.

            Faith Christian earned three gold medals and scored a team-high 232.5 points during the Class 2A tournament. The team collected seven medals.

            Freddy Bachmann (114 pounds), Nick Singer (172) and Adam Waters (189) each won gold. Gauge Botero (121) and Mark Effendian (285) finished second. Chase Hontz (160), the son of former Upper Perkiomen head wrestling coach Tom Hontz, and Jason Singer (215) ended up in fifth place.

            Two female Quakertown wrestlers won state titles. Caroline Hattala (190) and Ashley Stank (100 pounds) won gold medals Saturday.

            Hattala (34-0) completed a pefect season to capture her second state title and third career state medal. Ther junior defeated Alaina Claassen, a junior from Plum, 5-0.

           Hattala, who improved to 80-4 overall, won her first state title two years ago. She finished sixth as a sophomore.

            Stank (36-6), a junior, defeated Northern York's Makayla Smith in the final to secure her second state medal.