Bishop McCort had 8 wrestlers make the top 50 on the Pennsylvania Top Incoming Freshmen list. This list was a combination of AA, AAA and PA Prep Schools.
Butler is poised to have a breakout season. We could see him in action between 132-145. He is a utility wrestler and could wrestle where ever his team needs him. He won his first PA State Championship last season with a thriller in the finals. He is a 2x MS Super 32 medalist, 3rd in the HS Surge and 2nd in the MS NHSCA.
Bishop McCort had 8 wrestlers make the top 50 on the Pennsylvania Top Incoming Freshmen list. This list was a combination of AA, AAA and PA Prep Schools.
Jake Yatsky is the 40th top incoming freshmen on the TIF List released by PA Power. Jake is a 6 time PJW State medalist and a Two Time State Champion.
Jake was a Powerade Finalist as well in 2021. Jake will be looking to wrestle 215 for the Crushers this season.
Bishop McCort had 8 wrestlers make the top 50 on the Pennsylvania Top Incoming Freshmen list. This list was a combination of AA, AAA and PA Prep Schools.
Josh Spontak is the 48th top incoming freshmen on the TIF List released by PA Power. Josh was a Keystone MS State runner up last season. He also was a Powerade Runnerup and is poised to have another amazing season the Bishop McCort Crushers.
The AA State Team Rankings were released and Bishop McCort comes in ranked #1 in District 6. They are also ranked #9 overall in the State in AA. With some huge tournaments early in the Crushers schedule someday they will be poised for those state dual championships. Unfortunately they will have to sit another year of postseason. Next season will be very interesting with the Crushers able to compete in the Team states and individual states. Until then their post season will be at Ironman and Powerade.
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Recently the top incoming freshmen list was released for all the Pennsylvania wrestlers across the state. This list is the top freshmen from all the classifications (AA, AAA, Prep schools in PA). Bishop McCort has 8 wrestlers total on the list, 3 in the top 5, & 6 in the top 20.
For a freshmen to win one match a college open is extremely hard to do, but to collect four TF's is completely unheard of. Jax Forrest for the second straight weekend, enters a college open as a freshmen in Highschool and beats up college wrestlers. Jax open this past weekend against Seldon Seymour of Lehigh, and after a crazy battle, Jax loses 9-7. In the consy bracket Jax rattled off 4 straight technical falls and claims 5th place. A technical fall is when you are beating your opponent by 15 or more points. This rule is the equivalent to the mercy rule in baseball.
Jax Forrest TF 18-3 over Joe Sciarrone, Cornell
Jax Forrest TF 17-2 over Jace Schafer, West Virginia
Jax Forrest TF 20-5 Kenny Sailas, Northern Colorado
Jax Forrest dec 11-9 over Brett Ungar, Cornell
Jax Forrest TF 16-0 Mason Leiphart, Franklin & Marshall
This past weekend the CrushersWC sent 5 wrestlers out to Toledo to compete in the National Middle School Duals. This event is looked at as the top MS preseason event and a good place to see where the wrestlers fall within the top wrestlers across the country.
Melvin Miller and Keegan Bassett both had great weekends and their team Dynasty was able to make it to the Gold Pool. Making the Gold pool is very important at these dual events, because it ensures you will wrestle the other top teams and usually the other top wrestlers at the weight class. Miller was able to go 7-0 and had some very impressive wins. His biggest win coming from a 4-2 decision over Evan Stanley of Illinois. Bassett was 6-1 and was in some wars throughout the weekend. His best win was over another PA State champion Jake Benyo 8-2. Two weekends ago, they met at West Penn, where Bassett barely won 2-0.
CJ Pensiero was also on a team who was able to compete in the gold pool. CJ went 4-3 and had some tough matches all weekend long. CJ had a very impressive win over Jake Hughes and Gabe Logan from New Jersey. Eli Herring was on M2 and they were in the Silver Pool. Eli had a great weekend and went 5-3. Eli had two wars with other ranked wrestlers, he lost 3-1 in OT to Cason Craft of Georgia and 5-4 to Justin Farnsworth. His wins were against Ingham, Pratt, Manley, Hutt and Thier.
Matteo Noronha had three huge pins for Team Gotcha. Noronha was 4-4 on the weekend and also wrestled in the Silver pool.
The latest USA Wrestling rankings just came out for the HS girls and the CrushersWC have three girls ranked in the top 25 in the country at their weights.
Jordyn Fouse is ranked 4th at 127, Raegan Snider is ranked 17th at 152 and Alyssa Favara is ranked 22nd at 164. Jordyn and Raegan are 10th graders at Bishop McCort, while Alyssa is a Junior at Bishop McCort.
Bishop McCort became the 40th school district to add a Girls wrestling program. Right now the PIAA is sitting at close to 70 schools and with a girls team. Once they get to 100 teams, the PIAA will be making Girls Wrestling an official sport.
The McCort wrestling program is used to rolling with the punches and three weeks before the start of their regular season, they found out 8 of the 10 conference teams decided they weren't going to wrestle in their dual against them. This left a huge void and hole in the Highschool and Middle School schedules. After lots of emails and communication the two schedules are 95% finished & set. The highschool starts off the season with a bang and competes at the Ironman tournament. This event is the #1 HS in-season event in the country. The Ironman is Dec 9-10 in Ohio.
The following weekend they will be traveling back out to Ohio for the Barnesville Doan Ford Invitational. Established in 1969 as one of the first Invitational Tournaments in the Tri-State area, the 53rd annual Doan Ford-Barnesville Wrestling Invitational welcomes you to the prestigious tournament to be held on December 16-17, 2022. This event has 36 teams from Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, & West Virginia. Then on Dec 29-30 the team will travel to Powerade. This event is another top Nationally ranked tournament and 55 teams competing. In January, The Crushers will get to wrestle one of two dual meets. On Jan 3rd, the Crushers will travel to Bedford for a dual meet. Then preparing for another road trip. This time they will be traveling to Richmond, Virginia to compete in the East Coast Catholic Classic on Jan 6th-7th. There are close to 50 teams in this event and some national powerhouses like Malvern prep and Delbaurton, NJ. Moving to January 13-14, the team will be local and competing in the Midwinter Mayhem at the Kovalchick Center at IUP. Finishing out the tournaments for the year, the team will be traveling out east to Lehighton, PA for the Coal Cracker tournament. This event has 57 teams and should be some great competition. They round out the regular season with a dual at Chestnut Ridge on Jan 24th. In February, will be full go Freestyle and Greco, training for World team trials in Las Vegas in April.
Dec 16-17 Barnesville Doan Ford Invitational, Ohio
Dec 29-30 Powerade, Canon Mac
Jan 3 vs Bedford
Jan 6-7 East Coast Catholic Challenge, Richmond VA
Jan 13-14 Midwinter Mayhem, Kovalchick Center
Jan 20-21 Coal Cracker, Lehighton, PA
Jan 24 vs Chestnut Ridge
The Bishop McCort girls wrestling program is in their first year and they aren't wasting any time chasing the best of the best competition. They kick off their year at the Queen of the Mountain tournament on Dec 18. Then ten days later they will be at the Powerade on Dec 28. In January, the girls will be battling at the North Allegheny tournament on Jan 7th, Midwinter Mayhem Jan 14th, Coal Cracker on Jan 21st, and the Grow Women's wrestling event on Jan 28. February 4th will be the first Girls Wrestling event ever held in the area. Bishop McCort will be hosting an All girls event. March 5th will be the Western Regionals at Kiski Highschool and then finally Girls States will be March 12th at Central Dauphin Highschool.
Dec 28 Powerade
Jan 7 North Allegheny
Jan 14 Midwinter Mayhem
Jan 21 Coal Cracker
Jan 28 Grow Women's Wrestling
Feb 4 Bishop McCort Crusher Girls Open
Mar 5 Girls Regionals Kiski SD
Mar12 Girls States Central Dauphin SD
Bo Bassett and Jax Forrest find themselves training with the absolute best wrestlers in the USA. Bassett and Forrest are in Colorado Springs, CO at the Olympic Training Center. They were invited to participate in the Senior level world cup training camp. This is the second time these guys were at the OTC this year, but this times its alittle different with the senior level wrestlers. The equivalent would be if you are a football player and you went to the National Football Hall of fame in Canton, Ohio and all the Hall of famers were there practicing, interacting and helping each other get better. It's not every day you get to be at workouts with Jordan Burroughs, Kyle Dake, David Taylor, & Kyle Snyder.
Adding to the already amazing weekend from the CrushersWC, Jax Forrest enters a College open as a freshmen in Highschool. Jax is yet to make his first real HS debut, wrestled in his first of many College opens this weekend. Finishing the weekend 5-1 with wins over Eamonn Jimenez of Edinboro 17-2, Zach Espalin of Navy (Fall), Drew West of Gardner-Webb (pin), and a major decision for third placer over Aiden Lewis of Edinboro.
Lincoln Sledzianowski had the opportunity to represent Team USA in the 15U Pan American championships in Medlillion, Colombia. Team USA was able to Dominate the competition capturing the team title and CrushersWC's Sledzianowski was able to do the same winning both Greco & Freestyle. Lincoln, shown below, atop the podium after winning the Freestyle championship.
The CrushersWC had a huge weekend at the Surge this past weekend. Most of the top program from around Pennsylvania were there competing and trying to take home some hammers.
The CrushersWC wrestlers were able to pick up championships at all three divisons (Girls, Middleschool and Highschool). At the Middle School division, Will Buckley, Keegan Bassett, and Matteo Noronha won hammers and all wrestled very good.
In the Girls division, The CrushersWC was able to two Championship Hammers. Alyssa Favara and Rae Snider both wrestled amazing, aggressive and scored a bunch of points en route to their championships.
The HS division was the largest of the three and featured some top wrestlers from across Pennsylvania. The breakout performance came from Melvin Miller. He was seeded 10th and only in 8th grade. Miller makes winning a Surge HS Title as an 8th grader into a CrushersWC Tradition (Mason Gibson 2020, Bo Bassett & Jax Forrest 2021). Miller had to beat the 7th seed, 2nd, 6th and top seed to claim his title. Mason Gibson picked up his second Surge Hammer with a close victory over Tahir Parkins of Nazareth. Bo Bassett also collected his second Surge championship with a TF in the finals vs Nico Fanella.
Nine Bishop McCort Catholic wrestlers took home first-place honors at Sunday’s Pennsylvania Junior Wrestling Area 2 Section 3 tournament a...
