The Brock Badgers women’s wrestling team won its 12th U SPORTS title in the past 13 years but it was anything but easy.

The team championship was up for grabs heading into the gold medal matches Saturday and Brock’s title wasn’t secured until McMaster’s Olivia Lichti defeated Calgary’s Eve Maxwell-Nikiforak in the fourth match of the finals on Mat 2 at Canada Games Park. Brock’s 70 points put it three points ahead of Calgary for its 12th overall crown.

“If they would have won that one and Briana (Fraser) lost, which she didn’t, then we would have lost,” Brock women’s head coach Dave Collie said.

The Badgers lost six of the seven gold medal matches they contested.

“It’s great to have competition. Our girls definitely showed up and wrestled really well on the first day,” he said. “We didn’t have a good finals, even though we won.”

Collie thought his young team felt the pressure Saturday.

“If you can have a final day like we had today and still win the overall title, that kudos to all the hard work, time and effort that they put in all year. And what they did the first day, they put themselves in a position that having a bad day today wasn’t totally disastrous.”

Fraser’s win at 83 kilograms was by technical superiority but it took her to 51 seconds left in the second round to end it.

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