Youth wrestlers from the TYWC kept busy this past weekend. On Saturday 1/26/08 Tommy Traver, Elliott Hammersley, and Ryan Fink traveled to Mahanoy City to wrestle in the Gino Cappone memorial round robin tournament. Traver had a solid performance on his way to a 2^nd place finish. Hammersley and Fink each walked away with bronze medals.

Ben Siegel and Dalton Ray took a trip to Hershey and wrestled in Brute’s NE Nationals. Siegel locked horns with some of the countries finest before being eliminated. Ray wrestled through 4 rounds on his way to a 6^th place finish.

On Sunday 1/27/08 the TYWC concluded The Penn League duel meet season with 2 impressive victories. Earning wins over Benton (60-31) and Back Mountain (62-33) put the Tigers at a solid 9-4 record. Shane Sherwood, David Gavek (1 pin), Brian Rosiak, Tommy Traver (2 pins), Jake Richards (2 pins), Paul Webber (2 pins), Chris Packer, and Ben Siegel were double winners on the day. Also fighting hard for the Tigers gaining a hard fought victory was: Trystan Edmondson (tech fall), Joey Gavek (pin), Elliott Hammersley (pin), Dakota Quick (pin), Tyler Pugh, Dalton Ray, Mike Pugh (pin), and Noah Smith. Rounding out the line-up for Tunkhannock: Lucas Stage, Justin Kozlansky, Avery Hemme, and Shane Edmondson.

As with all Penn League events, it is important to have all team members wrestle for the experience of real matches. Wrestling exhibition for TYWC were: Charlie Brown, Jeremy Peck (2 pins), Erik Works, Nick Kalmanowicz (pin), Gary Webber (2 pins), Brandon Owens, Avery Newhart,  Justin Stonier (2 pins), Connor Munley (1 pin), Logan Hegedty (pin), Kenny Ray, Alex Smith, Zach Appleby, Dave Packer, Ryan Fink (pin), and Duane Peck.

Next up for the little Tigers will be The Penn League Champions Tournament. This event will be next Sunday, January 27, 2008 at The Martz Center of Wilkes University.