TORONTO - The McMaster Marauders wrestling team competed at the third event of the OUA wrestling season, the York Open, on Sunday November 19th.
After impressing at the previous two competitions this season, the McMaster wrestling team continued its success with five podium finishes for three silver medals and a pair of bronze.
A first-year from Bradford, Ont., Adrian Winter won three straight matches in the 61kg weight class to earn a spot in the gold medal match. Winter, a rookie studying Engineering, fell to a Guelph Gryphon but earned his first varsity medal for the Marauders – a silver.
Irman Kang, a Caledon local, picked up his second silver medal of the campaign. Kang, a second-year Humanities major, defeated a member of the TMU Bold, a Queen's Gael and a competitor from the Team Xtreme Wrestling Club enroute to the 82kg final where he fell to the eventual champion from the Guelph Gryphons.
A third-year Marauder,
Luken Lawson added a bronze to the team total in the 76kg weight class. He won four contests on Sunday to ensure he returned to Hamilton with some hardware.
The McMaster men ended the team competition with 21 points to finish in fourth. The Marauders finished eight points back of the bronze medalist Guelph Gryphons.
On the women's side of the competition, the Marauders finished with 14 points, just one behind the Concordia Stingers who finished in third.
Natalie Vecchio of Kingston earned her third straight medal of the season. The Kinesiology student won three of her matches to secure a spot in the 83kg gold medal match where she dropped the match but still secured second position.
After losing her opening match,
Olivia Lichti rebounded to earn a victory in the consolation semifinal while also booking her ticket to battle for bronze. The second year from New Hamburg earned another win, this time by fall to finish in third.
As an overall team, McMaster finished the York Open with 35 points to claim fourth spot in the overall competition.
Next Up
The Marauders will close out the 2023 calendar year at the Ontario Senior Open which they will host in Burridge Gymnasium on Saturday November 26 in Hamilton.
