Photos: Sergio Betancort
The final of the youth category of the XXXV Tournament Fundación La Caja de Canarias faced CL Tao and CL Tinajo on Sunday morning. The Tinajo team faced the final very diminished, not being able to count on five of their usual wrestlers and having only eleven troops to dispute the confrontation. CL Tao did not give his rival options and from the first moment began to widen the differences in the score. Triumph with which the youth team of CL Tao achieves this season the double, being champion of the Island Tournament of Lanzarote and the Tournament Fundación La Caja de Canarias.
Romen Marrero, Víctor Rodríguez and Ezequel de la Fuente, were in charge of raising the first five points to the scoreboard of CL Tao. Romen Marrero gave the two in a row to Jonathan Luzardo and José Salas. Víctor Rodríguez did the same with Hacomar Curbelo and Cristian Báez. And Ezequiel de la Fuente left Esteban Rijo out of the fight.
The manager of CL Tinajo, Patrick Cazorla, was forced to put one of his stars in the chair. Diego Cazorla raised the first point to the scoreboard of CL Tinajo by giving the two in a row to Ezequiel de la Fuente. The manager of CL Tao, Miguel Ángel Niz, reacted, facing Jean Pierre Moreno against Diego Cazorla. The cadet wrestler of Tao gave him the two in a row, eliminating one of the important men of CL Tinajo.
The advantage in favor of CL Tao was increasing. Kilián Arráez gave the two in a row to Acoidán Salas and Oscar Rejón. For his part, Victor Rodríguez also left Miguel González out of the fight, before being eliminated by Alexander Catarino. The highlighted of CL Tinajo gave him the two in a row to put the 10 to 2 on the scoreboard.
The problems continued for CL Tinajo. Francisco Rivera raised his hand due to injury in his confrontation against Jean Pierre Moreno. Alexander Catarino had more problems than expected to eliminate a combative Juan Carlos Domínguez, being eliminated the wrestler of CL Tao in the third grab for accumulating four admonitions.
In the last grab of the final Jean Pierre Moreno (CL Tao) and Alexander Catarino (CL Tinajo) faced each other. The wrestler of Tinajo scored the victory in the first grab, reacted the cadet wrestler of CL Tao to prevail in the second and third, and put the final 12 to 3 on the scoreboard.
Clear triumph of CL Tao in the final of the youth category of the XXXV Tournament Fundación La Caja de Canarias. At the conclusion of the final the trophies of champion and runner-up were awarded. Alexander Catarino (CL Tinajo) received the award for the most spectacular wrestler of the competition and his teammate Francisco Rivera (CL Tao) was awarded as the top tumbler.
Technical Sheet
CL Tao (12): Miguel Reyes, José Antonio Morales, Pedro Arrocha, Sergio Niz, Daniel Torres, Jean Pierra Moreno (3), Juan Carlos Domínguez, Zebenzui García, Kilián Arráez (2), Víctor Rodríguez (3) and Ezequiel de la Fuente (1) and Romen Marrero (2). Manager: Miguel Ángel Niz
CL Tinajo (3): Alexander Catarino (2), Diego Cazorla (1), Francisco Rivera, Oscar Rejón, Cristian Báez, Miguel González, Acoidán Salas, José Salas, Hacomar Curbelo, Esteban Rijo and Jonathan Luzardo. Manager: Patrick Cazorla.
Referee: Alejandro Collado and José Antonio Elvira
Incidents: Terrero Andrés Curbelo "Pollo de Tao". Final of the XXXV Tournament Fundación La Caja de Canarias.