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Youngsville has strong finishes at Tool City tourney

MEADVILLE — Youngsville entered Saturday with four wrestlers still competing and finished with three place-winners in the 43rd Annual Tool City Tournament at Meadville Area Senior High School.

Senior captains Logan McDonald and Ian Mancuso each recorded fourth-place finishes for the Eagles while James Johnson logged a sixth-place finish for the weekend.

“The majority of the kids were seeing tournament action for the first time and our youth showed on Friday evening,” said Youngsville coach Dave Myers. “It’s definitely fun watching the kids grow. We saw some good things out of our first and second year kids Friday, but in that kind of competitive situation inexperience got the better of us.”

Wrestling at 127 pounds, Mancuso opened the tournament with a first-period pin and advanced to the semifinals with a 7-3 decision victory. Mancuso opened the semifinals Saturday with a 5-0 loss to the talented Adam Heckman of Howland, Ohio before earning a 9-0 major decision over Zachary Rummel of Penns Valley.

The win by Mancuso put him in the third-place match against Maplewood’s Chase Blake where Blake emerged a 5-0 winner to put Mancuso in fourth.

McDonald dropped a 3-2 heartbreaker to Meadville’s Jacoby Thompson in the quarterfinals on Friday, but rebounded Saturday with a pin and a 9-4 decision win in the consolation round. In the consolation semifinals, McDonald gutted out a 7-5 decision over top-seeded Lance Cardman of Girard to make it to the third-place bout.

There, McDonald dropped another close decision to Meadville’s Thompson, 3-0, leaving him in fourth-place.

Youngsville’s final place-winner for the weekend was Johnson at 121 pounds who suffered a close 2-0 loss on Friday before rebounding with pins of Cambridge Springs’ William Marceau and Julian Wayne before a pinfall loss in the consolation semifinals. Johnson’s final match of the weekend was a first period loss via pin to Eisenhower’s Ryan Chambers.

“Ian and Logan showed their maturity and leadership over the weekend,” said Myers. “James did some growing as well and the results showed as much. It was a good showing for a first year wrestler trying to figure things out on the fly.”

Youngsville returns to the mat Wednesday for Senior Night, hosting Titusville.

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