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Fourteen wrestlers heading to OFSAA
Bole, Finzgar, return to the provincial championships, while several make debuts
including Nmor, Anderson and a brother of a wrestling family
February 23, 2025
By Rob J. Ross
LONDON, Ont. - Fourteen wrestlers are heading to OFSAA, six as WOSSAA champions.
Parkside Stampeders Haevyn Bole (female 57.5 kilogram) and Jack Rice (male 44), Central Elgin Titans Dollan Brown (M130) and Logan Finzgar (M51), St. Joe's Rams Flourish Nmor (F67.5) and East Elgin Eagles Sydney Woodford (F115), won their respective divisions, at the Western Ontario championships (WOSSAA), Febraury 21 at Saunders Secondary school.
Placing second were Eagles Nik Tupper (M41), Rams Rita Cseh (F67.6) and Nicola Vaessen (F77), Titans Kendelle Scott (F83) and Devon Berehulka (M64) and Stampeders Coby Scanlan (M130), Gavin Dale (M54) and Lily Anderson (F44).
Bole returns to OFSAA, looking to top the podium this year, after having to withdrawl during the gold medal match a year ago due to injury.
"The goal is to get back to the final," said Bole, after quicky taking care of Allie Giroux of London Lucas, in the female 57.5 division at WOSSAA. Giroux is on the very short list of opponents that have beat Bole over the past two years.
"She pinned me a month ago, so I was definitely happy to attack her," Bole said. "I'm happy with how I wrestled. I was sticking to the basics and perfecting some of my techniques."
At the WOSSAA awards ceremony, Bole was named Most Outstanding Female Wrestler of the Year for the Thames Valley Region season.
"I challenged myself by going to tournaments, purposely to find more competition this year," Bole said. "Last year I learned a lot because it was my first year, so I didn't know anything. I put in a lot more effort to learn stuff."
A blue belt in Jiu-Jitsu, Bole has put martial arts on hold during her wrestling season.
Gavin Dale is following in the footsteps of his older brothers, Tyler and Owen. Tyler is a 2023 OFSAA champion, while Owen has two OFSAA appearances on his resume and both have been conference most outstanding wrestler. Even their dad, Jeremy and uncle, Parkside coach Adam Dale, wrestled during high school.
St. Joe's Flourish Nmor is new to wrestling, but not OFSAA.
Already have competed at OFSAA in both cross country and track and field, the Grade 11 student heads to OFSAA for a third sport.
"This was the first year I noticed wrestling. I heard about tryouts before, but it never crossed my mind," Nmor said. "This year instead of sitting at home during the winter, I thought what else could I do."
Adding her mom prefers Nmor not to run outside a lot during the winter, wrestling was the sport to stay in shape and swimming wasn't for Nmor.
"I had to tell myself I do work hard, like in running and I have lots of stamina. I learned a bunch of techniques from watching hours and hours of wrestling videos," said Nmor.
Coming into WOSSAA, Nmor had mixed emotions, feeling confident enough to win, but guilty because it was only her first year.
"I feel like I've envisioned it a lot of times, visualized getting first," Nmor said. "I put in the work and the only thing that I struggled with, was thinking I didn't deserve it, because there are other people who have been wrestling longer than me. It was like, who am I to think I would beat them?"
Nmor did beat more experience opponents, including a tough match for gold against teammate Rita Cseh.
"I don't like that part, but it's the sport," Nmor said of facing teammates.
Parkside's Lily Anderson is also a first year wrestler but in Grade nine. Anderson won a challenge match for a spot at OFSAA. That's third place challenging second place, if the two wrestlers have not fought earlier at the meet.
"I'm really excited and can't wait to start," Anderson said. "I wrestled very well and I never gave up."
Anderson arrived at WOSSAA a conference champion, winning her division at during the Thames Valley (TVRA) championships.
"It's quite surprising," said Anderson at Conference. "I was really nervous. I thought about what could happen and how I could win that and thought about the best outcome in all of them to calm myself."
"It would be amazing to make it to OFSAA."
Anderson is one of five Stampeders heading to the high school provincial championships, March 4-5, at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium complex.
London Lucas won both the male and female team titles.
Andie Watson of Medway High and Brealey Peters of Woodstock Notre Dame, are WOSSAA's female and male Most Outstanding Wrestlers.
Thomas Fahner of Saunders, is the Most Outstanding
Male Wrestler of the Year.
Elgin
County
results
Parkside
Haevyn Bole, gold, female 57.5
Jack Rice, silver, male 44
Gavin Dale, silver, male 54
Coby Scanlan, silver, male 30
Lily Anderson, third, female 44
Aba Coombs, third, female 77
Max Muscat, third, male 51
Hannah Anderson, fourth, female 57.5
Genevieve Nelhams, fifth, female 44
Ryan Nash, fifth, male 67.5
Xander Dickie, fifth, male 64
Central Elgin
Logan Finzgar, gold, male 51
Dollan Brown, gold, male 130
Kendelle Scott, silver, female 83
Devon Berehulka, silver, male 64
Quinn Allison, fourth, female 54
Ray Boone, fourth, male 95
Connor Carson, fifth, male 77
St. Joe's
Flourish Nmor, gold, female 67.5
Rita Cseh, silver, female 67.5
Nicola Vaessen, silver, female 77
Kiean Silva, fifth, male 95
Owen Bacon, sixth, male 67.5
East Elgin
Sydney Woodford, gold, female 115
Nik Tupper, silver, male 41
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