McCort Dominates at sectionals, every MS Wrestler advances to Regionals.

 Nine Bishop McCort Catholic wrestlers took home first-place honors at Sunday’s Pennsylvania Junior Wrestling Area 2 Section 3 tournament at Forest Hills Junior-Senior High School.

Bishop McCort’s Keegan Bassett (89 pounds), Austin Carfley (103), Ty Conklin (117), Marquez Gordon (172), Emory Gunby (110), Eli Herring (96), Melvin Miller (140), C.J. Pensiero (157) and Joshua Spontak (132), Ryder Ascherl, Sanchir Edington, Jamison Forrest, Luke Pensiero, Vito Naljayan earned gold.

McCort Girls win the Crushers WC Open: Snider, Favara, and Noronha win titles

 The HS Girls competed this weekend at the Crushers WC Open! The brackets were loaded with talent. 

Bishop McCort girls won the team championship scoring 97 points, Second was Bald Eagle 38 and third was Bedford at 29. 

Champions

Alyssa Favara

Raegan Snider

Yana Noronha

Runnerups

Jordyn Fouse

Lane Fordyce

Third 

Jovie Forrest

Bassett, Buckley, Carfley, Miller, and Pensiero claim MS Titles at the Crushers WC Open

 The middle school wrestlers competed this weekend at the First Annual Crushers WC open. 

Champions 

Keegan Bassett 

William Buckley

Austin Carfley

Melvin Miller

CJ Pensiero

Runner ups

Sanchir Eddington

Eli Herring

Emory Gunby

Ty Conklin

Josh Spontak 

Third Place

Bentley Bainey

Marquez Gordon

Fourth 

Matteo Noronha

Elementary Placers

Ryder Ascherl, Maverick Magro, Jamison Forrest, Luke Pensiero, Evan Leibfried, 

Jax Forrest wins the Edinboro College Open

  This past weekend, Jax Forrest entered another College open and Competed against collegiate wrestlers, Bishop McCort Catholic freshman Jax Forrest captured the title at 125 pounds during Sunday’s Edinboro Open at Edinboro University.

Forrest scored a bunch of points and beat Gannon wrestler, Zach Bellissimo by technical fall in 2:38, outscoring him 21-5 to open. He then scored a 12-4 major decision over Ohio State’s Andre Gozales in the quarters and a 21-3 tech fall win over Michigan State’s Nick Corday in the semifinals.

Forrest finished the day by pinning Ohio State wrestler Brendan McCrone in 44 seconds to top the podium. Next year the Crushers HS team will be looking to take most of their Highschool team to college opens throughout the season. 

Fouse and Snider win MidWinter Mayhem! Fouse dominates with four TF's

 The CrushersWC sent five wrestlers to the Midwinter Mayhem. Jordyn Fouse and Raegan Snider were both champions and both had amazing days. Fouse lite up the score board and record four TF's. Every since the two got back from the OTC last week, they both had extra pep in their steps. Their confidence showed this weekend. Lane Fordyce and Yana Noronha both wrestled well finishing third. Jovie Forrest had two tough OT losses. Aylssa Favara was unable to compete due to an injury. 

The girls will be competing again this weekend at the Coal Cracker. 

The Crushers WC Middle School team crowned 8 champions in the Indiana MS Tournament.

 This past weekend, the Crushers WC sent their MS team out to Indiana. The CrushersWC were able to crown 8 champions and had 9 wrestlers make the finals. The squad scored a ton of points and record over 25 TF's on the weekend. The Crushers will be traveling to Conemaugh Twp for an open tourament this Sunday. 

Keegan Bassett- Champion

Eli Herring- Champion

Emory Gunby- Champion

Josh Spontak- Champion

Melvin Miller- Champion

Matteo Noronha- Champion

CJ Pensiero- Champion

Marquex Gordon- Champion 

Jaeger Forrest- Runnerup

Donnie Rozier- Third

Olympic Training Center: What an amazing opportunity to train with the senior level USA World team.

 Four freshmen from CrushersWC are out at Colorado Springs at the Olympic Training Center working out with USA Senior team. Bo Bassett, Jax Forrest, Sam Herring, and Jackson Butler will be at the OTC for 11 days training with wrestlers like David Taylor, Thomas Gilman, Kyle Dake, Kyle Snyder, Jordan Burroughs. These opportunities are mind blowing. Their training days consist of the Morning meeting with the USA Senior world team, where they break down video and footage from matches from the world championships. Whatever the focus is for the video sessions will be the focus that day at the two workouts. After the meeting is the team breakfast, followed by Practice one. Following Practice, one is a team lift. After lunch, the wrestlers have down time to get their schoolwork done. In the evening, around 4:00 is the second wrestling workout of the day. This workout is usually less technique and harder spars and live goes. After this workout is Dinner and finishing up the schoolwork from the day. Lastly, the wrestlers attend bible studies led by either FCA, J'den Cox or Kyle Snyder. 

This experience would be amazing for anyone, but for four HS freshmen is has to be surreal. They are literally training with the absolute best wrestlers to ever do it in the United States. 

Take it all in men and make sure you are taking advantage of every opportunity.