{"id":826,"date":"2011-01-07T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T00:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=826"},"modified":"2011-01-07T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T00:46:31","slug":"massillo-breaks-record-cougs-lose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/01\/07\/massillo-breaks-record-cougs-lose-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Massillo breaks record; Cougs lose 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANNETTE HIRSCHY<em>\/<\/em><\/strong><em>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WAPAKONETA \u2013 Cougar wrestler Connor Massillo broke the school record for number of wins, but it wasn\u2019t a great night overall for the Van Wert High School wrestling team, which lost to both Defiance and Elida in a Western Buckeye League wrestling super tri-match held at Wapakoneta on Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-829\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-829\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?attachment_id=829\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-829 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/VW-vs-Elida-Defiance-1-6-11-Priest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Wert&#039;s Tyler Priest (in red) wrestles during a Super Tri-Match on Thursday. Photo by Mona Massillo for the Van Wert independent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Massillo\u00a0broke the Van Wert High School record for number of wins with his 131st victory in the match against Elida, beating the previous record held by Brad Russell.\u00a0However, the Cougars weren\u2019t as successful overall, losing to Defiance, 48-26, and to Elida, 48-27. Cory Hirschy also won both of his matches against Defiance and Elida. Van Wert had four voids in the Defiance match and five voids in the match against the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will travel to Dublin Scioto High School on Saturday January 8,\u00a0to compete in an invitational wrestling tournament starting at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defiance 48, Van Wert 26<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>135 pounds \u2013 Void<\/p>\n<p>140 pounds \u2013 Colton Royer lost 3-1<\/p>\n<p>145 pounds \u2013 Connor Massillo\u00a0won 22-6 tech fall<\/p>\n<p>152 pounds \u2013 Jordan Daniels lost 8-3 decision<\/p>\n<p>160 pounds \u2013 Gabe Hill won by pin 5:28<\/p>\n<p>171 pounds \u2013 Tyler Priest lost by\u00a0pin 4:42<\/p>\n<p>189 pounds \u2013\u00a0Cory Hirschy won by pin 2:21<\/p>\n<p>215 pounds \u2013 Void<\/p>\n<p>285 pounds \u2013 James Hardman won by pin 1:01<\/p>\n<p>103 pounds \u2013\u00a0Void<\/p>\n<p>112 pounds \u2013\u00a0Void<\/p>\n<p>119 pounds \u2013 Jermaine Defore lost by pin 5:51.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elida 48, Van Wert 27<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>140 pounds \u2013 Royer lost\u00a06-2<\/p>\n<p>145 pounds \u2013\u00a0Daniel Thompson won by void<\/p>\n<p>152 pounds \u2013 Massillo won by pin 3:58<\/p>\n<p>160 pounds \u2013 Daniels lost 12-3<\/p>\n<p>171 pounds \u2013 Hill lost by tech fall 17-1<\/p>\n<p>189 pounds \u2013 Hirschy won by pin\u00a01:31<\/p>\n<p>215 pounds \u2013 Void<\/p>\n<p>285 pounds \u2013 Terrin Contreras won by pin :38<\/p>\n<p>103 pounds \u2013 Void<\/p>\n<p>112 pounds \u2013 Void<\/p>\n<p>119 pounds \u2013 Defore lost by pin 1:20<\/p>\n<p>125 pounds \u2013 Void<\/p>\n<p>130 pounds \u2013 Dorsch won 6-2<\/p>\n<p>135 pounds \u2013 Void<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNETTE HIRSCHY\/independent sports WAPAKONETA \u2013 Cougar wrestler Connor Massillo broke the school record for number of wins, but it wasn\u2019t a great night overall for the Van Wert High School wrestling team, which lost to both Defiance and Elida in a Western Buckeye League wrestling super tri-match held at Wapakoneta on Thursday. Massillo\u00a0broke the Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 00:24:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}