The trials for the 2018 World Championships for the non-olympic weights took place on Friday July 6th at WF. Mitchell Athletic Centre at the University of Guelph. Athletes on both the Men and Women's side looked to book their place to the World Championships being held in Budapest Hungary in October. The Montreal YMHA was the only Quebec club to send athletes to the event as Scott Schiller (61 kgs), Vince De Marinis (70 kgs) and Guseyn Ruslanzada (79 kgs) looked to secure their spots for the Men's team while Linda Morais (59 kgs) and Veronica Keefe (72 kgs) looked to book their tickets to the Worlds for the Women.
The wrestling began with Scott Schiller versus Melvin Arciaga from the Bears Wrestling Club. Scott would win that match comfortably by Technical Fall with a score of 11-0. Scott's next match would have him face off against Aso Palani (Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club) which Scott would win by Decision by a score of 5-1. Scott's final match to secure his spot on the World Team would be against Josh Bodnarchuk of the Saskatoon Wrestling Club. Scott would win this match comfortably by Technical Fall (16-5) and book his ticket to Budapest.
Scott Schiller wrestling at the Western Invititational Tournament
Scott Schiller
In his first match, Vince De Marinnis would face off against 2016 Canadian Olympian Haislan Garcia of Team Impact. Vince would come up short, losing via Technical Fall by a score of 12-1.
Guseyn Ruslanzada would square off with Tyler Rowe (Brock Wrestling Club). Despite wrestling a strong match, Guseyn would just come up short and lose via Decision by a score of 10-7 and finish off the competition in 4th.
Guseyn Ruslanzada at the 2017 Club World Cup
Guseyn Ruslanzada
On the Women's side, Linda Morais looked to also qualify her weight for the World's as she would pick up her first win via Fall versus Nicole Depa (Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club) at the 5:03 mark of the match. Linda's next match would also see her win via Fall versus Hannah Franson of the Dinos Wrestling Club at 2:46 of the first round. Linda's next match would have her wrestle Amy Bellavia of the Dinos Wrestling Club. Linda would go on to win via Technical Fall by a score of 10-0. In her final match, Linda would wrestle against Samantha Stewart from the Black Bears Wrestling Club. Linda would win this match in a dominant fashion by fall at 0:28 of the first round.
Linda Morais at the Commonwealth Championships
Veronica Keefe
Veronica Keefe faced a tough challenge in World Bronze Medalist Justina Di Stasio of the Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club. Veronica would put a good fight but would ultimately lose by Decision by a score of 9-2.
Congratulations to all our athletes who qualified for the World Championships!
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