East Windsor Wrestlers Excel at Rodney Smith Classic

EAST WINDSOR, CT — Several wrestlers from the host school had a successful day on the mat Saturday at the annual Rodney Smith Classic tournament at East Windsor High School.

Six Panthers were placewinners in the 14-school event named for Smith, bronze medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and captain of the 1996 U.S. Olympic wrestling squad.

Smith was in attendance and presented awards to the champions. Also on hand was his close friend Jim Olson, the former longtime East Windsor coach who started the tournament in 1998 as the East Windsor Invitational, and shortly renamed it in honor of Smith.

Team Results

1. Montville, 214.5
2. South Windsor, 154.5
3. Northwestern Regional, 129
4. Hampden Charter (MA), 119.5
5. East Providence (RI), 108
6. Suffield, 102.5
7. Terryville, 93
8. Notre Dame-West Haven, 88
9. Stafford, 85
10. East Windsor, 82
11. Enfield, 64
12. Tolland, 51
13. Montville-B, 17
14. Northwestern Regional-B, 14
15. Housatonic, 14
16. East Providence-B, 14
17. South Windsor-B, 11
18. West Haven, 7
19. East Windsor-B, 6
20. Suffield-B, 3

Individual Champions

• 106 - Cayleb Leclerc, Terryville
• 113 - Devon Schoenberger, South Windsor
• 120 - Dan Sullivan, South Windsor
• 126 - Noah Caskey, Montville
• 132 - Joel Morth, Montville
• 138 - Ryan Angers, Tolland
• 145 - Sam Kury, Montville
• 152 - Michael Angers, Tolland
• 160 - Cooper Nodden, South Windsor
• 170 - Jon Hayes, South Windsor
• 182 - Emanuel Diaz, Montville
• 195 - Gabriel Schwartz, Northwestern Regional
• 220 - Nick Tibbetts, Montville
• 285 - Joseph Elahi, Hampden Charter

East Windsor Placewinners

• Jack Pelley, 113 (2)
• Nate Tardif, 138 (4)
• David Cannemela, 220 (4)
• John McConnell, 106 (6)
• Cote Boivin, 145 (6)
• Steve Baquero, 220 (6)

Photo credits: Tim Jensen