Wolverine Wrestling Collects One Win In Laurel Duals Tournament

The Ellwood City Wolverines wrestling team finished 1-4 in the 2021 Laurel Duals wrestling tournament over the weekend at Laurel High School.

The Wolverines collected its 39-24 victory over New Castle on Saturday in the opening round of the tournament.

Ben Gallenz (106 lb, EC) pinned Kortel Marshal at 0:24 and Rodney Grymes (189 lb, EC) collected a decision victory 11-7 over Noah Shields to lead the Wolverines.  126 – Dom Dausman, 132 – Elijah Shelby, 152 – Ryan Nazari, 160 – Chris Quintanella, and 285 – Donovan Stiffler all collected forfeit victories for Ellwood City. Giovanni Carlucci pinned Damon Bumgardner (145 lb, EC) at 1:02 to round out the scoring in the opening round.

Ellwood City was defeated by Lakeview (40-30) in Round 2, West Mifflin (52-12) in Round 3, Laurel (66-9) in Round 4 and Mercer (42-24) in the final round.  Nazari and Gallenz collected victories versus West Mifflin, Grymes was the lone victor against Laurel and also collected a victory in his match against Mercer.

Host Laurel finished the tournament a perfect 5-0.

The Wolverines wrestling team (4-5 overall) will next travel to Freedom for a match-up on Tuesday night at 6:00 p.m.