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Call it a grand finale.

In their 24th and last pre-holiday wrestling tournament - with the school set to close this coming June - E.C. Drury made it an especially dominant team victory yesterday, amassing 15 medal-winning performances and a whopping 131 total points.

This marks the Spartans' 23rd title over the 25-year history of the meet. One year was cancelled due to snow.

Runner-up Bill Crothers - coached by former Drury OFSAA champion Mike DeVries - finished with 85 points, while defending OFSAA champion Heartlake rounded out the top three with 61 points.

Back from a knee injury, Max Michaelis secured his first gold of the year - one of three host grapplers to do so - with a 4-0 day. He knocked off Fergus' Ryan Karn in a two-round decision in the final.

Also reaching the top of the podium were Danny Stomphorst and rookie Colin Moffat. Stomphorst also won all four of his matches, grabbing his fourth medal of the season with a win over Daniel Azami of Newtonbrook.

The brother of Drury star alumni Alan and Duncan Moffat, Colin joined his distinguished brothers by winning his 61-kg. class in his freshman year.

With these golden performances, Drury has 105 individual titles over the history of the tournament.

Captains Luke Campbell and Anthony Zammit came away with silver, as did Teshaun Maycock and rookie Austin Bogart.

Bronze-medal efforts were delivered by Chris Varas-Hedman, Kierran Smillie, Matt Macrae, Cole Michaelis, Stefan Selgrad, Ben Bianco, Justin Soares and Chris Watts.

Jose Rambharose, Wyatt Turner, Junior Lopez, Rees Nicholson and Connor Frid took fourth.

Drury has now won two team titles on the year, having finished first at Turner-Fenton last month.