Bulldogs bounce back at home wrestling tourney

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A week after finishing in fifth place at last week’s 42-team Nogales Super Champs tournament (with less than half the points of champion Northview), West Covina came back in a big way Saturday by winning its own 19-team invitational tournament. The Bulldogs crushed runner-up Northview, 265.5-215.

West Covina got much better productivity from its top wrestlers this time around, claiming five individual championships, compared to none a week ago: Jeremy Dizon at 119 (was second at Super Champs), Anthony Caudillo at 125 ( seventh at Super Champs), Brian Gonzalez at 135 (seventh at Super Champs), Ryan McLaurin at 160 (second at Super Champs, wrestling at 171) and Avery Depraect at 171 (fourth at Super Champs, also wrestling at 171).

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Caudillo was selected the lower-weight MVP, pinning his first three opponents, two in the first period, before edging Ryan Perry of Bakersfield Stockdale, 1-0, in the finals.

None of Northview’s five champions or two runners-up from Super Champs took part in the West Covina tournament, but the Vikings still came away with individual titles from Marty Lagaspe at 145 and upper-weight MVP Matt Lopez at 189 (four pins in four matches).

-- Chuck Schilken, guest blogger