CANFIELD — For the second time in three years, the Fitch High wrestling team won the overall and Division I team titles at the EOWL Tournament Saturday night at Canfield High School.

The Falcons, who won the Joshua Hephner Tournament last week, outdistanced second-place Howland (172) by scoring 232.5 team points. Fitch scored five individual titles after advancing seven wrestlers to the championship finals. In all, 10 wrestlers placed in the top six of their respective weight classes.

Winning championships for Fitch were Jordan Sainato (119), Zack Martin (125), Tony Jameson (145), Louis Greco (152) and Chris Miller (215).

Miller’s title at 215 was his first EOWL crown after losing to Boardman’s Justin Powell last year. The junior, who is now 29-4 on the season, was pleased to finally be on the top step of the awards podium.

“When I looked at my bracket, I thought I’d win it, but there are no guarantees,” said Miller. “I’ve just tried to practice harder in the room and get ready to turn it up for sectionals.

“We’re a strong team this year and that really helps us all get better. We push each other and it pays off in tournaments like this. I feel like I’m a lot better this year than last year, so I’m hoping to get out of districts after finishing fifth last year. With our district, if I can get out, I have a good shot at placing at state.”

Howland (172) and Boardman (159) each had five finalists and finished second and third, respectively in the team standings.

West Branch (136.5) finished fifth overall and won the Div. II team championship. Girard (116) was sixth overall and first in Div. III. South Range (63.5) placed four wrestlers en route to the Div. IV team title.

Boardman’s Jerry Pasquale (103), Jeff Liggitt (135) and Bryan Whittaker (189) won championships, while five others claimed spots on the podium. Howland had five runners-up and eight placers overall.

Other individual champions included Beaver Local’s Arizona Miller (103) and Jon Bittenger (160), Canfield’s Brad Benedict (140), Girard’s Gary Bass (171) and Brookfield’s Dann Miller (130).

The most entertaining match of the night was the 145-pound championship bout between Jameson and Jackson-Milton’s Joe Skaggs. It was a rematch of last week’s Joshua Hephner final which Jameson won 19-3.

This time around, the match was much closer. After the first period, the score was tied at 4-all with both wrestlers scoring a takedown and points for near fall.

Jameson led 6-4 heading into what proved to be a scintillating third period. Skaggs got within 6-5, before Jameson padded the advantage to 8-5 with a takedown.

Skaggs countered with under a minute to go with an apparent takedown, but Jameson scrambled out of it, gained an advantage and pinned Skaggs at 5:12 to win his fourth EOWL championship.

Jameson became the third wrestler to win four EOWL championships, joining Fitch’s Nick Bodnar and Beaver Local’s Adam Hoppel.

The biggest applause of the night came before the finals even started. The 2008 class of the EOWL Hall of Fame was inducted prior to the wrestling. The group included Chris Canale (Canfield), Kevin El-Hayek (Boardman), Chris Peretti (Boardman), Derick Fletcher (Fitch), Denny Orr (Canfield) and Brian Davidson (Salem).

Davidson, who lost his sight when he was 1-year-old, received a standing ovation from the crowd when he was presented by former Salem coach Dave Pleggi.

After an undefeated season at the Ohio State School for the Blind in 1979, Davidson moved to Salem to wrestle. Remarkably, in his senior year, Davidson won a sectional championship and finished 16th in the state. He later attended Mount Union College