Newtown High School's wrestling team won the Fairfield Ludlowe Invitational on December 20, and 138-pound grappler James Leuci earned his 100th career win in the process. Anthony Falbo earned the tournament’s Outstanding Wrestler Award.

The Nighthawks scored 317 points to easily outscore runner-up Ludlowe, which had 180. Newtown had 11 finalists and nine champions. Wrestlers from 14 schools participated in the tourney.

The following Newtown wrestlers won championships in their weight divisions:

106: Tom Leuci defeated Bethel’s Jack Lynch 4-1.

113: Luca Crudo defeated Ludlowe’s Austin Sherman 8-1.

126: Ed Lovely defeated Fairfield Prep’s Orlando Sanchez 17-5.

132: Matt Gonzalez pinned Brien McMahon of Norwalk’s Jason Martinez in 1:28.

138: James Leuci defeated Ludlowe’s Bobby Clark 7-5.

160: Connor LeMay defeated Staples of Westport’s Charles Lamento 4-1.

170: Anthony Falbo pinned Ludlowe’s Lee Stenild-Johansen in 5:46.

182: Logan Walsh defeated Bethel’s Brendan Macintyre 6-1.

195: Andy Hubina defeated New Britain’s Josh Graves 2-1.

145 grappler Alex Stavola and 152 wrestler Joe Accousti both finished second; 138 wrestler Ryan King was third; and 145 wrestler Chris Lajoie and 220 teammate Tom Long both came in fourth.

Read more about this win, as well as the team's season-opening victory over Bunnell - during which the Hawks has a program record-setting performance with 11 pins - in the December 26 print edition of The Bee.