2008 Battle of the Atlantic II
Held at: New Minas, NS on 05/03/2008
Referees: Rick Pinkney, Shawn Ross
Battle of the Atlantic II
Dooly’s
May 3, 2008
New Minas, Nova Scotia
The 5th tournament of the year ran at Dooly’s in New Minas in conjunction with our second Battle of the Atlantic. The BOTA matches had quite an effect on the outcome of some of the tournament classes on this past Saturday. In our amateur portion we ran 3 classes, with Daniel Martle from PEI making his trip off the island worthwhileDaniel took home 2 of the 1st place trophies in the Lightweight left and right classes. And new comer Joey Clayton took top spot in Left-hand Heavyweight. Hope to see Joey lots more, he has a ton of potential!
We ran 4 of our Elite classes Saturday and our winners were:
Right Elite 3 – Ed Mclellan
Left Elite 3 – Artie MacMaster
Right Elite 2 – Shaun Deveau
Left Elite 2 – Mark Crouse
As I said the BOTA has some effect on the tournament as only Mark Crouse was able to capture the BOTA belts AND take top spot in the tournament. Way to go Mark!
Full Results below…
Amateur Right Lightweight 1) Daniel Martel, Montague, PEI 2) Brian Coffill, Beaver Bank 3) Terrence Wrigley, Middleton 4) Chris Rafuse, Windsor 5) Alex Swinimer, Middleton | Right Elite 2 1) Shaun Deveau, Dartmouth 2) Chris Scott, Sackville 3) Mark Crouse, Beaconsfield 4) Ryan Purdy, Halifax |
| Right Elite 3 1) Ed McLellan, Hilden 2) Matthew Purdy, Malagash 3) Joey Clayton, Middleton 4) Jim McGeoghegan, Belfast, PEI 5) Daniel Martel, Montague, PEI 6) Artie MacMaster, Truro 7) Christopher Scott, Sackville 8) Tim Wrigley, Middleton | Amateur Left Lightweight 1) Daniel Martel, Montague, PEI 2) Christopher Scott, Sackville 3) Chris Rafuse, Windsor 4) Ed McLellan, Hilden 5) Terrence Wrigley, Middleton 6) Alex Swinimer, Middleton |
| Amateur Left Heavyweight2 1) Joey Clayton, Middleton 2) Christopher Scott, Sackville 3) Tim McGeoghegan, Belfast, PEI 4) Terrence Wrigley, Middleton | Left Elite 3 1) Artie MacMaster, Truro 2) Jim McGeoghegan, Belfast, PEI 3) Gary Laird, Torbrook 4) Tim Wrigley, Middleton |
| Left Elite 2 1) Mark Crouse, Beaconsfield 2) Shaun Deveau, Dartmouth 3) Chris Scott, Sackville 4) Matthew Purdy, Malagash 5) Gary Laird, Torbrook 6) Ryan Purdy, Halifax |
Our second Battle of the Atlantic. Four of our six Champions defended their belts against the #1 Competitors with three of the four belts changing hands. We had a couple upsets and some of the most intense pulls I have ever seen.
The best matchup of the day was the Right Hand Lightweight class between the Champion Tim Wrigley and the number 1 challenger, Artie MacMaster. The matches were literally gut bustin’ and eye popin’. Artie came out on top and took Tim’s belt with a 6-0 record but it was not indicative of how close these two matched up. All 6 matches went straight to the hook where these two fought hard with the grip inching back and forth.
Tim Wrigley, not one for easy matches, also had 6 brutal left hand matchs with Jimmy McGeoghegan. hardly any one thought Tim could take Jimmys belt but after dust all settled Tim came out with a 6-0 victory over Jimmy.
Mark Crouse was our double Champion on Saturday. Not only did he defend his right hand belt from challenger Ryan Purdy he was able to defeat Ryan with his left and capture the belt left vacant by Sylvio Bourque. Mark sent Ryan home with 11 loses out of 12 matches! I expect we will see Ryan back with some adjustments…
We also had 2 BOTA challenges with a left handed Melvin Peach hammering Matt Purdy down a spot to 5th and taking his #4 spot. After watching this match I think the 3 guys over Mel better watch out.
The only “non-televised” bout was Jimmy Jim McGeoghegan defending his #5 position right handed against Darren Taylor. Darren now holds the #6 spot right handed.
Our Heavyweight Championship match had to be postponed this time as our Champion, Mark MacPhail could not attend. Mark was staying home this trip awaiting the coming of his first child! (it was a boy!) We look forward to seeing Mark back in action defending his 2 BOTA Belts!