{"id":3209,"date":"2017-11-13T01:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T01:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernwrestling.ca\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2017-11-14T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:31:28","slug":"wrestlers-win-two-golds-ryerson-open-place-second-overall-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/westernwrestling.ca\/wrestlers-win-two-golds-ryerson-open-place-second-overall-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestlers win two golds at Ryerson Open and place second overall as a team"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Mustang wrestling team continued their impressive start to the season with an strong showing at the Ryerson Open on Saturday November 11th<\/sup>. The Mustangs placed second overall as a team and claimed 7 individual medals.<\/p>\n Michalia Walls<\/strong> coming off a silver medal performance last weekend continued an excellent start to her season by going a perfect 3-0 (win-loss) and claimed gold in the 63kg division.<\/p>\n Kennedy McMillan<\/strong> was the other Mustang women who won a medal on Saturday. Kennedy, wrestling in the 59kg division, picked up two wins to earn the bronze.<\/p>\n Other Mustang women who placed in the top six were; Jessica Ly<\/strong>\u00a067kg and\u00a0Olivia Cirillo<\/strong> 72kg both placing 4th.<\/p>\n First year wrestler and London Central grad Anthony Parker<\/strong> won all 4 of his matches to win the gold medal at 120kg.<\/p>\n The men\u2019s team had three silver medal winners. Improving on their fourth and fifth place finishes from last weekend respectively Chris Nikolaou<\/strong> 57kg and Lauchlin MacDonald<\/strong> 68kg both won silver medals. Competing in his first tournament of the season fourth year wrestler Caleb Rutner<\/strong> 72kg won a silver medal. \u00a0Rounding out the medal winners for the Mustang men and earning his second medal in as many weekends was Brayden Ambo<\/strong> who won a bronze medal at 76kg.<\/p>\n Top six finishers for the Western men were; 4th<\/sup> Collin Johnston<\/strong> 90kg, 4th<\/sup> Kevin Marshall<\/strong> 100kg, 5th<\/sup> Maharus Noorani<\/strong> 120kg, 6th Jackson Browning<\/strong> 90kg.<\/p>\n Next up for the wrestling team is the York Open on November 18th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n