BATH — Bath Middle School wrestling coach AJ Reno checked through the archives and spoke to former coaches last week, trying to uncover if the Destroyers had ever won the Pine Tree League West Regional after his team captured the title two Saturdays ago at Monmouth Academy.

“I know they finished second one year,” said Reno, who plans on looking further back in the record book after his squad captured the Pine Tree League Championship at Bath Middle School on Saturday.

Behind champions Zach Fifield (131 pound), Raz Baltazar (155) and Justin Trottier (170), the Destroyers earned 139.50 points to easily outdistance runner-up Oceanside of Rockland-Thomaston, which finished with 101.50 points.

Mountain Valley of Rumford (93 points) was third, Troy Howard Middle School of Belfast fourth (75), and Mt. Ararat and Medomak tied for fifth with 70.50 points.

Sugg Middle School of Lisbon Falls was 20th with 12 points.

“I couldn’t have asked for anything better from this team, especially after they gave me 110 percent all year and never quit working,” said Reno of his squad, which boasted of two runners-up (Hunter Reed and Justin Johnston), one third place (Henry Geoffrion) and two fourths (Bailey Page-Nichols and Spencer Wodatch). “Going into the year, I knew we had great wrestlers, but I was worried they were going to all be in the same weight class. We had our first practice and everything seemed to fall into place.

“Six of these kids will go on to high school next year, and I’m sure they will be able to help (Morse coach) Shawn Guest over the next four years.”

Fifield finished the season undefeated after pinning Connor Petros of Ellsworth in Saturday’s final. The 131-pounder won all but two matches (both were major decisions) by pinfall this season.

Baltazar was also undefeated, getting past Jason Montina of Ellsworth in the 155-pound final by a 7-3 decision. Trottier won by decision, defeating Mountain Valley’s Kyle Cote. 7-2.

Johnston fell to Eli Smith of Camden-Rockport in the 138 final, 9-1, while Robert Heatherman of Mt. Ararat picked up a 13-2 major-decision victory over Reed at 124 pounds.

John Heatherman captured the 145-pound title for Mike Taylor’s Mt. Ararat squad, pinning Spencer Vaughn of Dirigo at 1:08 of the opening period. He won each of his matches Saturday by pinfall.

“John and Robert were each wrestling well coming into the meet, so who they met in the final would be the decision-maker,” said Taylor, who has coached the Eagles for 14 seasons. “We had four wrestlers finish in the top four, plus Brunswick’s Christian Jensen was second. With two champions, two seconds and a fourth, it was a pretty good day.”

Mt. Ararat’s John Stinson, wrestling at 210, was pinned by Troy Howard’s Marlin Hanson in the championship match, while Jensen fell to Ethan Boucher of Mountain Valley in the 89-pound final via pinfall. And, Damian Grubb of Mt. Ararat finished fourth in the 89-pound division, falling to Brendan Burns of Troy Howard in the consolation final.

For Sugg, Henry Adams scored a 5-4 decision over Troy Howard’s Drew Nealey for third place.

Bath’s Geoffrion took a major decision over Dylan Robbins of Bucksport in the 145-pound consolation final, while Page- Nichols ( 190) dropped an 8-0 decision to Dirigo’s Luke MacDonald and Wodatch was pinned by Ian Goff of Oceanside.

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