CW Championship Final: Golden Bears three-peat while Dinos take home women's crown

February 14, 2015

Final: Men's Results | Men's Standings | Women's Results | Women's Standings

CALGARY – The No. 4 Alberta Golden Bears completed thethree-peat, taking home the men's wrestling title, while the No. 2Calgary Dinos were the women's champion, returning to Canada Westsupremacy.

Women's Standings

  1. Calgary – 44 points
  2. Alberta – 40 points
  3. Regina – 25 points
  4. Saskatchewan – 22 points
  5. Winnipeg – 19 points
  6. Fraser Valley – 4 points

Men's Standings

  1. Alberta – 45 points
  2. Saskatchewan – 43 points
  3. Fraser Valley – 40 points
  4. Winnipeg – 39 points
  5. Calgary – 38 points
  6. Regina – 26 points

Four points separated the newly crowned champion Dinos from thereigning champion Alberta Pandas as Calgary won it's first women'swrestling championship since 2011, ending Alberta's three-yeartakeover.

The Dinos had four gold medal winners including Cara Nania(55kg), Temitope Ogunjimi (63kg), Hilary Goble (72kg), and HollyEllsworth-Clark (82kg). Coming down to the final round againstAlberta, the No. 2 Dinos rallied to take the win with a huge winfrom Goble in one of the final bouts.

"It's exciting and I'm excited for the girls," said Dinos headcoach and Canada West Women's Coach of the Year Mitch Ostberg."They are the best team in Canada West and I think they're the bestteam in the country so it was really neat to see them wrestle well.Alberta is a tough team and we were in trouble there for a littlebit, but they came back and won it. I think Hilary Goble gettingthat fall was huge and it would have been really tight at the endif she hadn't gotten that fall. Holly's match at the end was verydramatic and so close too so it was very exciting."

Also winning gold medals included 2014 Canada West OutstandingWrestler Annie Monteith (48kg) of Saskatchewan, Alberta's HayleyThomas (51kg) and Cholena Horne (59kg) and Regina's Kayla Brodner(67kg).

In the closest Canada West men's wrestling championship inyears, the Alberta Golden Bears came out on top by just two pointsover No. 8 Saskatchewan. Just seven points separated the top fiveteams in the competition that had five of the top ten ranked teamsin the country.

"As an athlete, I've been in Canada West myself since 1997 andthis is the closest race I've ever seen," said Golden Bears headcoach and Canada West Men's Coach of the Year Owen Dawkins. "It's atestament to the coaches in this conference and how things haveimproved. With the addition of Fraser Valley, it was a battle thisweekend. With our group, we have five rookies on our squad and awhole bunch of injuries, but they worked together and we pulled itout and it was truly a team championship this weekend for us."

The team win came with Michael Asselstine (61kg) as the onlygold medal winner from the Golden Bears. The Winnipeg Wesmen toppedthe men's gold medal winners with four over the course of the meetincluding Mitchell Berenz (65kg), Aleksandr Soronov (76kg), FinnHiggins (90kg), and Kyle Nguyen (120kg). Other gold medal winnersincluded three Huskies in the likes of Josh Bodnarchuk (54kg) whoalso earned Rookie of the Year honours, Dylan Bray (57kg) asOutstanding Wrestler, and Malcolm Meekins (72kg). Regina's LucasHoffert took home gold in the 68kg weight class while FraserValley's Jasmit Phulka (82kg) and Chanmit Phulka (100kg) won medalsin their first ever CIS competition.

All gold, silver, and bronze medal winners will advance to theCIS Championships hosted by the University of Alberta, Feb.27-28.

AWARD WINNERS

Outstanding Wrestler

Male: Dylan Bray - Saskatchewan

Female: Annie Monteith – Saskatchewan

Rookie of the Year

Male: Josh Bodnarchuk - Saskatchewan

Female: Brandy Perry - Alberta

Student-Athlete Community Service Nominee

Male: Brock Munro - Winnipeg

Female: Annie Monteith - Saskatchewan

Coach of the Year:

Men's: Owen Dawkins - Alberta

Women's: Mitch Ostberg - Calgary

Women's Medals

48kg

Annie Monteith – Saskatchewan

Josee Tremblay – Calgary

Kaitlin Kucharski – Winnipeg

51kg

Hayley Thomas – Alberta

Rachel Alder – Winnipeg

Kate Richey – Calgary

55kg

Cara Nania – Calgary

Emily Kessler – Winnipeg

Laryssa Barry – Saskatchewan

59kg

Cholena Horne – Alberta

Indhyra Linares – Regina

Lisa Brise – Saskatchewan

63kg

Temitope Ogunjimi – Calgary

Krystin Paquette – Alberta

Sena Debia – Regina

67kg

Kayla Brodner – Regina

Brandy Perry – Alberta

Cassidy Barnert – Calgary

72kg

Hilary Goble – Calgary

Molly Bouchard – Alberta

Dalynn McKay – Regina

82kg

Holly Ellsworth-Clark – Calgary

Marlen Figueroa – Alberta

Megan Nelthorpe – Saskatchewan

Men's Medals

54 kg

Josh Bodnarchuk – Saskatchewan

Steven McCarville – Alberta

Freddie Aziz - Calgary

57kg

Dylan Bray – Saskatchewan

Dylan Williams – Alberta

Roland Yong – Calgary

61kg

Michael Asselstine – Alberta

Aso Palani – Fraser Valley

Nathan Galan - Saskatchewan

65kg

Mitchell Berenz – Winnipeg

Cody Osborne – Alberta

Spenser Burk – Calgary

68kg

Lucas Hoffert – Regina

Tyler Buchan – Calgary

Drew Belanger - Alberta

72kg

Malcolm Meekins – Saskatchewan

Devin Purewal – Fraser Valley

Kyle Horvath – Calgary

76kg

Aleksandr Soronov – Winnipeg

Connor Hodgins – Calgary

Hidde Van Der Kamp - Alberta

82kg

Jasmit Phulka – Fraser Valley

Andrew Johnson – Saskatchewan

Ben Christopher - Winnipeg

90kg

Finn Higgins – Winnipeg

Brad Hildenbrandt – Fraser Valley

Nick Proctor – Calgary

100kg

Chanmit Phulka – Fraser Valley

Daniel Oloumi – Alberta

Jacob Luczak – Regina

120kg

Kyle Nguyen – Winnipeg

Manheet Kalhon – Fraser Valley

Jacob Philips – Saskatchewan