Austin Batra, in blue, of W.J. Mouat wrestled to a silver medal in the 84kg match at the BC High School Wrestling Zone Championship Saturday at Rick Hansen Secondary.
Photograph by: Jean Konda-Witte , Abbotsford TIMES
The W. J. Mouat Hawks wrestling team captured its fifth Upper Fraser Valley Zone Championship on Saturday, amassing a whopping 140 team points for the boys, almost double that of the second place team, Guildford Park with 74.
"The team did a great job to win their second championship title in the past three years," said Mouat coach Jim Mitchell.
The Hawks girls team finished third in the team standings. WJM collected 16 medals and qualified 21 wrestlers to compete in the B.C. High School Wrestling Championships in Duncan on March 1-2.
Mouat Individual Results: Gold: Navrose Brar 38kg, Davinder Gill 51 kg, Amrit Benning 60kg, Khang Nguyen 63kg and Nishan Randhawa 78 kg.
Silver went to: Austin Batra 84kg, Ashleigh Bull 40kg, Gagan Malay 47 kg, Pravi Dhaliwal 60 kg, Tamanna Bains 64kg.
Bronze was won by Aman Bains 54 kg, Pawan Sangha 45kg, Manvir Brar 48 kg, Gagan Sangha 66kg, Rahul Narula 74 kg, Harjeet Mangat 84kg.
Also qualifying for the B.C. Championships from Mouat were: Tanvir Brar, Leon Lokombo, Mickey Kheheria, Sukhjit Malhi and Noah Moss.
Other Local Results - Gold Medals:
Navdeep Toor, Reimer Middle 41kg
Tejpaul Kullar, Abb. Trad. 45kg
Dave Sharma, MEI 54kg
Justin Gill, Hansen 70kg
Jobanjit Phulka, Hansen 84kg
Rajan Gill, MEI 90kg
Alexia Seal, Mission Sec. 40kg
Julianna Bouwers, HPSS 51kg
Shalaya Valenzuela, MSS 57kg
Cyprys Wales, HPSS 60kg
Silver:
Eknoor Bajwa, Abb. Trad. 45kg
Nick Seal, HPSS 51kg
Harman Basran, Hansen 54kg
Arshdeep Gurm, Abb. Trad. 74kg
Sukh Sidhu, Abb. Trad. 78kg
Sajjan Randhawa, Bateman 110kg
Sarah McPherson, Abb. Trad. 54kg
Bronze:
Jaskaran Sidhu, Reimer 57kg
In other team results for boys, Abby Traditional placed third with 59 points, Rick Hansen was sixth (47 pts.), MEI was seventh (38 pts.) and Robert Bateman was ninth with 24.
In girls team results, Heritage Park was second with 18 points, WJM was third with 18 and Mission Secondary was fifth with nine.
