The Mt. San Antonio College wrestling duels were cancelled after a Rio Hondo wrestler was seriously injured on Saturday.

The Cerritos College wrestling team was one among 14 other schools scheduled to wrestle in the Mt. SAC wrestling duels.

Chad Thornock, 141-pound wrestler, says the training has increased heavily during the past week.

“We have already been practicing for a month, but in the last week we have been doing more cardiovascular training.”

The team’s only match up was against East Los Angeles College.  

The match and tournament was cancelled in the third round.

Cerritos’ 170-pound wrestler, Cody Bollinger, and Rio Hondo’s 149-pound freshman Jessie Cruz’s match was interrupted when Cruz began having health complications, and he later died that night.  

Despite the early departure, head coach Don Garriot believes his team could have had the most prepared wrestlers at the tournament.

The next tournament is at Santa Ana, on October 2.

 Last year, the team had one individual champion and two others made it to the championship match in the tournament last year, giving the team an overall fourth place finish.

 Sophomores Jose Lopez and Jesse Ponce were both eliminated in the final match.

Lopez was defeated by a score of 5-3 and Ponce was defeated 13-8.