Pin City

By: Taylor Stevens

Last weekend Madison High School's wrestling team took home the 2nd place title for the WRC Tournament. The tournament took place in Madison High School's gym. There were 4 matts for the 8 different schools in the Western Reserve Conference. Madison is part of the conference along with Brush, Riverside, Mayfield, North, Kenston, South, and Chardon.

Madison did great in this tournament, they had 13 team placers. 2 of those were late add in players, Seth Shrocke and Jacob NeHoufs, they will be continuing the rest of the season with the team. This tournament had plenty of highlights:  Captain Jeff Brichford placing 1st in his weight class, getting his 2nd WRC title. Coach Tomaso said, “Jeff pretty much pinned his way through this tournament, same with junior Shayne Magda¨. Brichford said he had fun with this tournament and is happy with how it turned out.  Shayne placed first in his weight class also and it was his first time getting a WRC title. Shayne had faced his competitor before. He first faced him in the match against Kenston, he had lost to him, but then Pin City came and Shayne beat him by one or two points. Shayne beat the player for the second time, giving Shayne his first place title in his weight class.

Many surprises had happened with this tournament. Dominic Zirkle wrestled hard and earned himself 2nd place in his 220 weight class. Jacob Glass also worked extremely hard to get his 2nd place title in the 285 weight class. Each and every wrestler put a huge amount of work in for this tournament and every match really. Coach Tomaso told his wrestlers during the tournament that they could either wrestle hard enough and work enough to be champs or you can be in 5th place, it just depends how hard you work.

If you missed the WRC Tournament you can come to the team's senior night, Thursday February 15th, 2018 at 7. It is a home match and it is against Madison´s rivals, Perry. The team would love the support so make sure you are there!