TYWC Hosts Annual Tourney

     The Tunkhannock Youth Wrestling Club held its annual Tony Stanton Memorial Tournament on Sunday with great success.  The tournament hosted over 300 wrestlers from around the region and presented some great wrestling action for the day.  Carl and Jill Stanton, parents of the late Tony Stanton proudly watched over nearly 900 matches of youth wrestling on the day.

     Participating in the tournament were 41 wrestlers from the TYWC, a terrific turnout for the home-town youth grapplers.  Out of those 41, TYWC boasted 8 first place finishers, 8 second place finishers, 9 third place finishers, and 6 fourth placer finishers.  Taking home championship trophies were Owen Woods, Schuler Hammersley, who pinned 3 opponents on his way, Kurtis Christ, Brian Rosiak, Nick Wilmarth, with his first career champion’s trophy, Tommy Traver, Jake Richards, and Elliot Hammersley.  Finishing second in the competition was Timmy Davenport, Nathan Wilmarth, Brian Christ, David Gavek, Lucas Stage, Ted Nafus, Joey Gavek, and Dalton Ray, who picked up 3 pins on his way.  Bringing home third place finishes was Jacob Davenport, Jacob MacMillan, Gavin D’Amato, Ryan DeRemer, Connor Munley, Bryce Brown, Tommy Bachman, Jacob Hand, and Dakota Quick.  The fourth place finishers on the day included Hunter Gregory, Ethan Munley, Erik Works, Eddie Melan, Tyler Pugh, and Will Dudock.  Rounding out the TYWC competitors and wrestling tough all day were BJ Works, Josh Whitmire, Matt Christofferson, Erin Maloney, Sam Rice, Breanna Weidner, Josh Beeman, Justin Kozlansky, Leo Mayeski, and Ziggy Rezykowski.

     Overall, this was a great day for the TYWC and a very successful tournament made possible by the help of all the family members in the wrestling community who pitched in.  A very special thank-you goes out to all of them.

     In other wrestling action over the weekend, two TYWC grapplers traveled to Muncy for the Novice Tournament of Champions.  Owen Woods took home first place, pinning two opponents on his way to victory.  Ethan Munley brought home second place, also pinning two wrestlers in the process.