The Newtown Youth Wrestling Association (NYWA) finished its first week of regular season competitive wrestling with much success. Both the elementary and middle school squads participated in home and away matches against Ridgefield. The elementary squad match was highlighted by a record 27 wrestlers competing.
The elementary team traveled to Ridgefield
where they were on the winning side in 20 of the 30 matches. Led by newcomer Robbie Accomando (2-0 with 2
pins), third grader Justin Bogdanoff (2-0 with 2 pins) and wins from brothers James and Sean Dauber the K through 5th graders found themselves winning much of the evening. Two matches stood out on the night, newcomer Eva Provey lost a tough 10-8 bout that went back and forth all 3 periods and Owen Perchuck found himself on the winning side of an exciting 9-8 match. Other winners included Zach Leonard, William
Henkel, Luca Manfredi, Zach Robinson, Jordan Conrad, Steven Lueci, Shaine Luzietti, Ben Watson, Evan Rooney, Luke Wellman, Jack Zingaro, Adrian Decola, Nate Gibson and Gren Paynter.
The middle school team fared equally well as they came away with an 18-6 win hosting the older Ridgefield team at Sandy Hook Elementary School. A great win by 1st year wrestler and Newtown Middle School 7th grader Jack Wellman was joined by Sean Arnold, Andrew Hubina,
and Edward Lovely who all went 2-0 with 2 pins on the night. Joining them in multiple victories against the black and orange were Erik Benson (2-0), Thomas Leuci (2-1), Chris Manfredi (2-0) and Andrei Steinjann (2-1). Rounding out the team’s success were Anthony Falbo, Chris Lajoie and Alex Stavola with 1 win each.
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The NYWA holds it’s practice sessions Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for the middle school squad in the Sandy Hook gym and 6:30pm to 8pm for
the elementary school squad held in the Sandy Hook
cafeteria. Thursday nights are competition nights. NYWA can be found on-line at http://newtownyouthwrestling.blogspot.com and be sure to follow Newtown Youth Wrestling on Twitter at twitter.com/NYWACT.
