Great weekend for Hat wrestling club

By Medicine Hat News on March 28, 2019.

Medicine Hat’s youngest wrestlers finished their season with a hometown meet Friday, while a pair of older ones came home with hardware at junior nationals in Saskatoon this past weekend.

Elementary City Championships were held Friday at Hat High, with nearly 100 competitors out on the mats. Twenty gold medals were handed out, and Hawks club coach Darren Klein noted in a press release that club athletes didn’t necessarily win all of them.

“This is what is truly exciting about the sport,” he wrote. “You can find kids that are total naturals!”

Meanwhile in Saskatoon at Wrestling Canada’s junior and senior championships, Kayen Ivey won the Greco Roman 77 kilogram junior division unopposed, though he went 0 (2 in the 79 kg junior wrestling division.

Cassie Fischer won her first match at nationals, then lost her last two to wind up third in the junior 82 kg ranks. Klein noted that Fischer was competing for the first time after returning from an injury.

Zach Campbell, who won a provincial title, is slated to go to under (19 championships in New Brunswick next month.

Gold medallists

Winners from the Medicine Hat Elementary City Championships wrestling meet held this past Friday at Hat High:

Cooper Buckler (Hawks/Roy Wilson), Camara Banks (Hawks/Dr. Sauer), Marcus Baker (Hawks), Kage Trekoski (Roy Wilson), William Kozakewich (Hawks), Zachary Perry (Dr. Sauer), Nolan Puritch (Hawks), Beckam Kesler (Roy Wilson), Easton Burgess (Hawks), Elijah Andreas (Hawks), Abdellatif Yassin (Elm Street), Kade Linford (Hawks), Easton Kelly (Dr. Sauer), Colton Krushell (Roy Wilson), Otto Foley (Dr. Sauer), Addison Ross (Hawks), Janessa Jackson (Hawks), Autumn Robinson (Elm Street), Dasia Sinclair (Hawks), Adrienne Campbell (Hawks).

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