Favorite North Carroll had five individual champions and scored 173 points to win the Carroll County wrestling title last night at Westminster High.

It was the Panthers' 15th county championship and third in the past five years.

The Panthers' champions were Bryan Hoff at 135 pounds, Chris Stout at 145, Kyle Forbes at 189, Jason Thomen at 215 and Nathan Shaffer at 275.

Defending champion South Carroll finished second with 140.5 points, followed by Westminster with 130.5 points.

The biggest individual story was South Carroll's Tyler Mullen. The senior pinned Dan Merrill of North Carroll in the 171-pound championship to become only the ninth wrestler to win four straight Carroll County titles.

Mullen won the title at 171 pounds last year, at 152 as a sophomore and 145 as a freshman.

In addition to Mullen, Winters Mill's Will Sharkey (152), South Carroll's Zac Stavish (160), and North Carroll's Thomen (215) repeated as county champions.

In the 119-pound final, South Carroll's Cam Hobin dominated Chris Antrobus of Century and pinned him in 3 minutes, 24 seconds. Antrobus was a returning champion, having won the title at 103 pounds last year.

At 140 pounds, Zach Downing of Winters Mill scored a takedown with six seconds left to defeat Jeff Shea of Liberty, 8-7. Shea led most of the match before Downing rallied to score four points in the final period.