NORTH WRESTLING FINISHES 2nd AT GOVERNOR MIFFLIN TOURNAMENT

North Catholic Wrestling was busy after the holiday season and traveled to Shillington PA for the 36th annual governor mifflin wrestling tournament. Over the past 7 years, north catholic has finished no higher than 3rd (last season) and had a grand total of 3 champions. This season, north blew the doors off those statistics with 4 champions and a 2nd place finish out of 17 teams.

North Catholic were led by champions Mike McCall (103) , Anthony White (145), AJ Vizcarrondo (215) and Jeremy Reith (285). Also placing for the falcons were David Davidson (125) - 3rd, Tim Maguire (160) - 5th, Will Trainor (152) - 7th, Nick Cancelliere (135) - 8th.

RANDOM NOTES FROM THE TOURNAMENT:

• north catholic went 7-1 in the medal rounds to pull away from Hempfield and Big Spring
• mccall, white, vizcarrondo, and reith did not give up a takedown all tournament
• anthony white has not given up a takedown all season
• this was aj and jeremy's first ever varsity tournament championship
• tim maguire increased his varsity win total by 400%
• coach rick mascino ate 35 chic-fil- A sandwiches. we believe this was a tournament record.
• north went 35-14 in the two day tournament

OTHER HAPPENINGS

North takes the mats again this wednesday at home against Cardinal Dougherty. This is going to be the final regular season home wrestling match. we hope to see many of the wrestling alumni to celebrate wrestling at north catholic. The match is scheduled to begin at 7pm.

Reminder, the wrestling beef-n-beer will take place on saturday jan 23rd at north catholic. tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the door. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions....

That is about it for now, have a safe and happy new year!!!!