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Men’s freestyle collects eight golds to complete team title sweep at Junior Pan Ams

BY TAYLOR MILLER, USA WRESTLING | JUNE 08, 2019, 
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala – The men’s freestyle team help complete a team title sweep at the 2019 Junior Pan American Championships, winning eight gold medals on Friday night in Guatemala City. An outstanding day for Team USA, the squad went 32-2 on the day and earned the tournament’s Outstanding Wrestler award in Roman Bravo-Young, who went 4-0 on the day, winning all matches by tech fall without surrendering a single point the whole day. Winning gold medals were Trevor Mastrogiovanni at 57 kg, Bravo-Young at 61 kg, Peyton Robb at 70 kg, Danny Braunagel at 74 kg, Shane Griffith at 79 kg, Zac Braunagel at 86 kg, Tanner Sloan at 97 kg and Seth Nevills at 125 kg.

Silver medalists for the Red, White and Blue were Real Woods at 65 kg and Jake Woodley at 92 kg. Woods fell in the finals against Cristian Solenzal Lopez of Cuba, who won a Greco title earlier in the week. Woodley finished on top, securing the silver medal with a pin in 33 seconds in his final match of round-robin action. In the team race, the USA was unmatched, scoring 240 team points, beating second-place Canada by 120 points. Finishing third was Mexico with 113 points. Across the three styles, the USA won 29 medals,  Rest of the story and results at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2019/June/08/Jr-Pan-Am-MFS

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