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Readers pin Ettkin over viewpoints
First published: Sunday, February 18, 2007
Loudonville Christian School does not allow boys to wrestle girls. This is considered so radical that on Feb. 13, an article about it appeared in the Times Union. Featured were Brian Walsh, a Loudonville Christian wrestler; his parents Dennis and Mary Lou; and athletic director Bruce Camilleri. They all agree with that school policy, which has twice cost Brian a chance to win the Section II Class D final. He forfeited the championship matches rather than roll around on the floor with a girl in front of a crowd of fans.
I am not describing wrestling this way to detract from the sport. I'm hoping an accurate description will help to realize just what the issue is here. It is not wrestling, per se. The issue includes propriety, appropriate behavior, self-respect, respect for opponents and fans and even decency. The athletic director and the others referred to here explained, in the article, the reasons for the policy. They apparently thought they had to, and so do I after reading Brian Ettkin's column in the same Times Union.
Mr. Ettkin poked fun at the very idea that anyone would not want to dress in wrestling togs and participate in a public, coed role. He says he favors a very limited role for religion in public life. Try to remember the admiration that most of us felt for Sandy Koufax when he was an ace major-league pitcher who, for religious reasons, wouldn't pitch on Yom Kippur no matter how important the game. I hope Mr. Ettkin at least respected Mr. Koufax for that.
I admired Koufax then, and I now admire Loudonville Christian and its wrestler and am grateful that they have taken this stand. I wish more schools would do the same.
CHARLES A. HERUBIN Albany
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I write in response to Brian Ettkin's opinion piece where he condemned Loudonville Christian School for adopting a policy that prohibits boys and girls from wrestling each other. The issue is one close to me because I have two sons who wrestle -- both of whom have wrestled girls.
Mr. Ettkin appears to believe that all religious schools should be forced to bend to his viewpoint on boys and girls wrestling each other. This belief is deeply troubling. Society is best served by tolerating diversity, not enforcing conformity.
Loudonville Christian School is a private religious school. Nobody is required to attend. Nobody is forced to accept any of their religious beliefs. Each individual set of parents, knowing the school's religious requirements, decides if the school is right for their child.
There are some religious schools in this area (CBA and La Salle, for example) that not only forbid girls and boys from wrestling together, they don't even allow girls to attend their school. If banning coed wrestling is wrong, then banning coeducation is also. So when Mr. Ettkin trumps his moral superiority and demands that religious schools conform to his beliefs, he leaves no place for the unique role that religious schools play.
Amy Whitbeck says that she respects Brian Walsh for standing up for what he believes. So does her coach. Building character is what high school sports is about, not winning state championships. Brian has demonstrated outstanding character. I applaud Brian and Loudonville Christian School for having the courage to live out their faith.
TOM MARCELLE Slingerland
I was chuckling as I read Brian Ettkin's column regarding Brian Walsh's decision to forfeit a wrestling bout if his opponent is a girl ("Pleasing God, man, woman," Feb. 13). Throughout Ettkin's column, I had the sense that Ettkin felt that Brian Walsh should not be permitted to make such a choice. I speculated as to whether Ettkin would want Brian Walsh to be fined or perhaps serve jail time for refusing to wrestle a girl. I also wondered if such a refusal should constitute a misdemeanor or a felony.
The chuckles ended when I read Ettkin's statement, "Religion's role in public life should have its limits." The First Amendment to the Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Brian Ettkin apparently does not accept the principle behind the second part of that portion of the Constitution. He apparently even believes that the regulations of high school sports should trump a boy's or a girl's moral and religious convictions. That's not funny; it's scary.
A. GARRY FINKELL Albany
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It is is hard for me to imagine anyone being more opposed than I to the tone and the conclusions of Brian Ettkin's column on women in sports ("Eyes open but minds are closed," Feb. 11).
Ettkin applauds public nudity, encourages lust and dismisses attempts at decency as "backward." And he believes that all males hold to his convictions!
Ettkin needs to discover that there are many sports fans who are not flesh-ogling mindless males stuck in perpetual adolescence. There are many men and women who are disgusted with the marriage of sex and sports (promoted in large part by television commercials) and the degradation of our societal standards.
Ettkin holds up the fairy tale being spun in Europe as an example to follow -- that public nudity is no big deal and has no effect on public behavior. What a myth! I would ask him to consider the ancient proverb: He who continually buries his head in the sand like the ostrich will eventually lay the biggest egg in the world.
I do believe that Ettkin wants us to go back to the days when all that separated us from the light of day were a few well-placed fig leaves! Talk about a backward attitude!
DAVID EAMES Delmar
davidkeames@gmail.com
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Across region, girls going to the mat
By Paul Harber, Globe Staff | February 18, 2007
When Hingham High School ninth-grader Abby Nestor took the mat for her first wrestling match against Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School last December, she did not know what to expect.
Breaking News Alerts In 29 seconds she easily whipped her male adversary, taking a 4-0 lead in points before pinning him to get her first junior varsity victory.
It was exhil arating for Nestor and, for the rest of the world, maybe mildly surprising -- but far less so than it used to be.
In Massachusetts, particularly in the region south of Boston, more and more girls are going out for what many consider the last bastion of high school male athletic dominance.
Three years ago, 38 girls were on boys' teams statewide, according to Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association participation statistics. Two years ago the number of female wrestlers nearly doubled to 74. And last year it climbed to 93.
Almost a third of the state's female wrestlers are from schools south of Boston.
"Boys are generally stronger and have a decided advantage. But girls seem to know more about technique," said Canton coach Tom Bartosek. "If a girl knows what she is doing, she can win."
Sophomores Lauren Cortizo and Christie Keough wrestle for Canton, as do four other girls. "They are pretty good," said Bartosek. "Lauren beat a wrestler from Oliver Ames in a junior varsity match, and I don't know if the kid is over it yet."
The female wrestlers also find the whole experience a bit new, but they are quickly getting used to it.
"Wrestling boys at first was weird and a little intimidating, but after a while it is no different that wrestling girls," says Nestor, who is one of two girls on the Hingham team. The other is sophomore Brittany Nelson, in her second year on the squad.
"When we get on the mat, we just want to do the best we can," said Nestor.
There was a time when co-ed wrestling was unthinkable.
According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, there were only six female high school wrestlers in the United States in the mid-1980s. Today approximately 2 percent of all high school wrestlers are female.
But it has not come without opposition.
In Minnesota, there was a bill in the state Legislature two years ago that would have banned girls from wrestling against boys. The measure died, but not after igniting considerable debate.
There have been no similar debates locally, as girls have taken their positions on teams across the region. Brockton High School had nine female wrestlers on its team last year, Southeast Regional in Easton had five, Norwell and Middleborough had three each. Duxbury and Dedham had two, while Braintree, Norton, and Holbrook had one on their teams last year, according to MIAA statistics.
Some of the local girls hope to compete in state and regional tournaments next month . The Michigan-based US Girls Wrestling Association will host the Massachusetts Girls Open Championship at the Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School in Fitchburg on March 10 and a New England Open Championship at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester on March 24.
Breaking News Alerts The tournament is for girls from 5 years old through college age. Competitors come from all over the Northeast. Last year in the elementary school division, Rebecca Regan of Foxborough finished second in the 92-pound weight division.
What is prompting more girls to turn out for wrestling? The addition of women's freestyle wrestling to the Olympics in 2004 may be one factor, but most girls say they simply enjoy the sport.
It was Nestor's classmates, both male and female, who urged her to try out for the school team. She never wrestled before, but as a martial arts black belt, she seemed a natural fit.
On the other hand, Nelson gravitated to the team because her brothers are wrestlers. Older brother Jason was a Patriot League All-Star and team captain last year, and brother Neal, a junior, is on this year's squad.
"I've been with the program for six years," said Paul Canniff, Hingham's junior varsity coach, "and Brittany was the first girl to stick it out for the whole season."
Although both girls compete primarily on the junior varsity, by the time they are seniors, they could advance to the varsity if they stay with the program.
Many girls do not. Brockton and Dedham have all-male teams this year. "We had two girls on our team last year," said Dedham High School athletic director Bob Lynch. "One graduated and the other decided not to go out for the team. Another girl thought about going out, but changed her mind."
There is no vacillation in Nestor's mind. "I'm hoping to move up to the varsity next year," said Nestor. "The boy who wrestles ahead of me in my weight division should be moving up a weight class, and I hope to fill in."
"Everybody has the potential to make the varsity," added Canniff.
A knee injury sustained in practice sent Nestor to the sidelines in mid-January. "Abby either tore or sprained her medial lateral ligament in practice," said her mother, Ruth Cooper, a nurse at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth. "Although she is on crutches, she goes to all the practices and all the competitions. She enjoys being a member of the team. The boys on the team have been very good to her and Brittany."
And the girls have been good to them.
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Whitbeck, Anderson advance
Girls headed to state event in 103-, 96-pound divisions
By DAVID FILKINS, Staff writer
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First published: Sunday, February 18, 2007
GLENS FALLS -- Duanesburg wrestler Amy Whitbeck became somewhat of a celebrity a year ago, when she became the first female high school wrestler to reach the state tournament.
Local television and radio stations came calling, even the "Today" show wanted her to appear.
But after what happened Saturday at Glens Falls Civic Center, Whitbeck seems less of a novelty than she did last season.
For the second consecutive year, she advanced to the state tournament (March 2-3, Times Union Center), defeating Hudson Falls junior Kirk Harrington 11-6 in the Division II 103-pound final at the Section II state qualifier.
But Whitbeck isn't the only girl moving on to the next round. Schuylerville freshman Sarah Anderson, third at 96 pounds last season, advanced by pinning Watervliet freshman John Delaney in the finals at 96 pounds.
Whitbeck and Anderson said the day will come when girl wrestlers no longer make headlines because of their gender.
"I think in the future that day will come," Whitbeck said. "There are many more girls wrestling this year than last year."
Anderson agreed.
"I hope girls see what we're doing and say to themselves, 'That could be me,' " she said. "We're proving it can be done."
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Jackson's Miller makes history, finishes second
By Scott M. Johnson
Herald Writer 2/18/07
TACOMA - Tara Miller made history Saturday evening, even if the memories of it are less than perfect.
While participating in the first officially recognized girls wrestling final in state history, the 103-pound Jackson High School junior came up short, taking second place after a 3-2 loss to Sarah Rowen of Columbia River.
"That's pretty good," Miller said of her second-place finish. "She's ranked ninth in the nation, so it makes me wonder where I rank."
Miller struggled to score points on Rowen, falling behind 2-0 on an early takedown and trailing the rest of the way. After recording an escape with 1:13 left in the match, Miller trailed 3-2 but couldn't get the deciding takedown.
"I should have pushed a little harder and taken more shots," Miller said. "We were both stalling a little bit, but I should have tried to do more."
As a member of the lowest weight class, Miller got to take part in the first-ever championship. She said she'll always be proud of that feat.
"When I lived in Minnesota, I got ridiculed by my family a little bit; my family was disappointed in me for being a wrestler," Miller said. "But now they've become more accepting."
This year, Washington became the third state to officially sanction the girls wrestling tournament.
"It's a pretty special thing to be able to see that," said Gus Amaya, the Timberwolves' wrestling coach. "I'm pretty excited to see it. Some people are, some aren't, and I am one of those who is.
"It's still stressful on the coach, whether it's a girl or a boy out there."
The only other local wrestler to take part in the girls finals was 160-pound Sydney Nelson of Oak Harbor. Nelson ran into a buzz-saw in the finals, losing to unbeaten senior Kylee Bishop of Washington High School 9-1.
"She has seven years in wrestling," Nelson said. "This is my first year."
Lynnwood's Taneal Detschman (third at 112), Arlington's Jennifer Jayne (third at 135), Lake Stevens's Joemae Alewine (fourth at 103) and Jackson's Tawnyrae Richards (fourth at 119) also received medals.
Wherever they placed, this year's participants will always have history on their side.
As pioneers of girls wrestling, the 2007 class has something almost as impressive as a state title.
"It's great," Miller said. "We just made history, all of us girls (at the tournament). All of us are really excited about it. I hope that soon a lot of other states will have (girls wrestling)."
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By Jeff Graham, jgraham@kitsapsun.com
February 18, 2007
Olympic junior Camie Yeik became only the third girl wrestler in state history to claim a medal at the boys’ state tournament, placing eighth in the Class 3A 103-pound bracket. Yeik, who looked impressive winning two consolation-round matches on Friday, lost to Lakes’ Fred Conte by pin (0:39) in her Saturday morning match, then fell to Yelm’s Patrick Benson by pin (0:28) in the seventh-place match. Puyallap’s Whitney Condor and Willapa Valley’s Megan Martin were the first two girls to win medals competing against boys. ... In the 135-pound finals of the girls’ tournament — state sanctioned for the first time this year. ... Sequim senior Summer Steenberg fell to Hoquiam sophomore Alex White, 5-2. North Kitsap’s Blythe Peterson won one match and failed to place in the same weight.
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Cumberlands Takes Two Of Three From Boxers
Summary:
Win (17-10)
Loss (24-7)
Loss (25-6)
The Patriots showed the depth that makes them the nation's top women's wrestling team, using three different lineups to take two of three duals from Pacific
WILLIAMBURG, Ky. - The nation's top ranked women's wrestling program showed why they will be title contenders at next month's National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships Saturday, as Cumberlands (Ky.) took two of three duals with three different lineups at the O. Wayne Rollins Center.
The Patriots allowed the Boxers only one victory in each of the first two duals. Cumberland scored a 25-6 victory in the first dual, followed by a 24-7 decision in the second dual. The Boxers finally broke through in the final dual of the afternoon, winning five of the eight matches for a 17-10 victory.
Kapua Torres (Jr., Kahuku, Hawaii) was the only Pacific wrestler to earn two victories on the afternoon. She scored a 5-0, 6-0 victory over Talina Martinez in the day's second dual, then followed it up with a second round pin of Catey Beatty in the nightcap.
Valerie Prise (Jr., Diamond Bar, Calif.) had Pacific's only victory in the opening dual, scoring a 5-2, 4-6, 3-2 decision over Jackie Stiles at 48 kg.
The duals were the final competition for the Boxers before the National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships. Pacific will host the one day tournament on Mar. 10 at the Pacific Athletic Center.
CUMBERLANDS 25, PACIFIC 6
48 kg.: Valerie Prise (PAC) def. Jackie Stiles (IC), 5-2, 4-6, 3-2
51 kg.: Jessica Medina (UC) def. Kapua Torres (PAC), 1-0, 2-0
55 kg.: Leanne Barney (UC) def. Summer Scott (PAC), Pin, 1st Round
59 kg.: Sandy Do (UC) def. Alenna Nilsen (PAC), 3-0, 4-2
63 kg: Othella Lucas (UC) def. Titilope Lawani (PAC), 3-2, 6-2
67 kg.: Alaina Berube (UC) def. Erin Zimmerman (PAC), Pin, 1st Round
72 kg.: Bethany Harris (UC) def. Kisha Milfort (PAC), Pin, 2nd Round
80 kg.: Theresa Fennell (UC) def. Megan Richardson (PAC), 6-0, 2-2, 2-1
CUMBERLANDS 24, PACIFIC 7
48 kg: Aquilla Hills (UC) def. Valerie Prise (PAC), 5-4, 6-2
51 kg: Kapua Torres (PAC) def. Talina Martinez (UC), 5-0, 6-0
55 kg.: Debbi Sakai (UC) def. Summer Scott (PAC), Pin, 3rd Round
59 kg.: Jessica Jauck (UC) def. Alenna Nilsen (PAC), 4-6, 4-3, 8-3
63 kg.: Sherolynn Eppinger (UC) def. Titilope Lawani (PAC), 1-1, 2-1
67 kg.: Lauren Knight (UC) def. Erin Zimmerman (PAC), Pin, 3rd Round
72 kg.: Daphne Moriel (UC) def. Kisha Milfort (PAC), 1-0, 1-0
80 kg.: Sheri Hilliard (UC) def. Megan Richardson (PAC), 1-0, 4-0
PACIFIC 17, CUMBERLANDS 10
48 kg.: Melissa Girard (UC) def. Valerie Prise (PAC), 4-1, 2-1
51 kg. Kapua Torres (PAC) def. Catey Beatty (UC), Pin, 2nd Round
55 kg.: Summer Scott (PAC) def. Linda DeBakey (UC), 3-0, 5-0
59 kg.: Shannon Reeves (UC) def. Alenna Nilsen (PAC), 4-0, 3-0
63 kg. Titilope Lawani (PAC) def. Nena Garcia (UC), 4-0, 3-0
67 kg.: Erin Zimmerman (PAC) def. Sara English (UC), 4-0, 3-0
72 kg.: Kisha Milfort (PAC) def. Annie DeCrescente (UC), 3-0, 2-0
80 kg.: Theresa Fennell (UC) def. Megan Richardson (PAC), 3-0, 5-0
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Girls Wrestling | "Nothing less than first" for Kentwood's Navejas
By Steve Hunter 2/18/07
Special to The Seattle Times
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TACOMA — Right after winning the 112-pound state wrestling title, Kentwood sophomore Antonia Navejas raced over to her corner of the mat and jumped into the arms of Ruben Navejas, her father and coach.
The two held that pose for several seconds as they celebrated being a part of history at the Mat Classic on Saturday at the Tacoma Dome in the first girls state wrestling tournament sanctioned by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.
Girls wrestling featured only exhibition matches the previous three years at Mat Classic.
Hoquiam, which had a tournament-high six qualifiers, won the team title with 62 points, led by individual champions in sophomores Kelsey Klein (125) and Alex White (135). Kelso was second with 46, and Mount Baker of Deming third (42). Kentwood took fourth with 40.
Nobody showed more emotion after her victory than Navejas.
"I felt proud for my dad," Navejas said. "I wanted nothing less than first, and I showed my dad I could take first."
Navejas improved her record to 27-2 with an 11-1 win over Lucky Saengchanh, a senior from River Ridge in Lacey. Navejas beat Saengchanh 8-3 in the regional semifinals last week and knew she needed to score quickly.
"I had to put points on the board because I knew she might stall like she did last week," Navejas said.
Ruben Navejas had plenty to smile about as he watched his daughter dominate.
"That's one of my highest moments," Ruben Navejas said. "She put everything she had into that match."
Kentwood sophomore Jolene Crook-Meyers had hoped to win a state title as well, but she ran into an extra-motivated opponent in La Center junior Chris Cox at 130. Crook-Meyers had defeated Cox last week at regionals.
"It was my chance to redeem myself," said Cox, who pinned Crook-Meyers in 4 minutes, 30 seconds. "I'm speechless. I'm in such a daze, it's like a dream."
Cox, who wrestled mostly boys this season in compiling a 23-11 record, pinned all three of her opponents at state. Crook-Meyers also had pinned her first two opponents.
Another overpowering wrestler turned out to be Kelso senior Veronica Mendoza, who pinned Hoquiam senior Kyra Butler in 1:58 to win at 119. Mendoza pinned all three of her opponents at state.
Note
• Junior Sarah Rowen of Columbia River of Vancouver became the first girls state champion when she beat junior Tara Miller of Jackson of Mill Creek 3-2 at 103.
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By Rob Burns & Mike Martin - Daily World Writers
Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:01 AM PST
DAILY WORLD / KEVIN HONG Hoquiam’s Alex White, left, tangles with Sequim’s Summer Steenberg in the 135-pound girls’ final at Mat Classic in Tacoma on Saturday. White beat Steenberg for the state title. |
TACOMA — All of the hard work gained on Friday turned into history on Saturday for Hoquiam’s girls wrestling team.
The only mystery on Saturday was how many state individual titles the Grizzlies would take home with a brand-new team championship trophy.
Sophomore Kelsey Klein and junior Alex White solved the mystery, becoming the first girls state wrestling champions in school history. Senior Kyra Butler and Aberdeen senior Nicole Hyde each took second place.
In the all-classification team competition, Hoquiam had no peer, streaking to 62 points and the team title at the Mat Classic XIX in Tacoma. Kelso took second place with 46 points, with Mount Baker third at 42, Kentwood at 40 and Chewelah 37.
Hoquiam girls wrestling coach Todd Hoiness said that the trophy not only belongs to the girls team, but the boys in the training room who worked and wrestled with them all season.
“(Head coach Kirk) Hartzell said from Day 1 that when the girls won the team title, he wanted all of the young guys who worked with them and trained with them in the room to join them on the podium,” Hoiness said. “It’ll be organized chaos. Everyone in the room is just as much a part of it as anyone else. We believe that is what separates us from the rest of the state.”
With six girls in the tournament, Hoquiam possessed the largest team in the competition. The depth put the Grizzlies over the top on Friday as a 46-point championship semifinal/consolation first round session provided the distance over the field.
So, with one team goal in hand, Hoquiam’s three championship finalists aimed to add individual gold to the trophy case.
Kelsey Klein
Klein’s championship became official after a lengthy discussion at the scorer’s table.
Klein led 5-2 and had top position on a restart with 11 seconds left in the 125-pound final against Camas’s Termae Rowshan. Rowshan shook free and was awarded an escape, as well as a takeown as regulation expired.
However, the ruling was hotly disputed by the Hoquiam coaching staff, as they saw it as Rowshawn getting only a reversal. After a nearly 5-minute discussion amongst the officials, Hoquiam’s interpretation was ruled correct, and Klein became the 125-pound state champion with a 5-4 win.
“I didn’t know what to think,” Klein said of the wait. “But I knew that she’d gotten the reversal, and that was it.”
For Klein, the journey from first-year wrestler to state champion seemed difficult to fathom.
“It’s amazing. You almost never think about winning a state championship at any sport, and especially not in your first year.”
DAILY WORLD / KEVIN HONg Hoquiam’s Kelsey Klein hugs coach Jason Ronquillo after capturing the inaugural 125-pound girls’ state wrestling championship on Saturday. |
After a first-round takedown by Rowshan and an escape, as well as a point awarded for an illegal hold by Rowshan, the match was even at 2-2 entering the final period.
Beginning from the down position, Klein scored an escape 12 seconds into the round and added a takedown with 1:21 left to take a 5-2 lead.
Alex White
Facing an opponent she’s never met before, White used the first period to figure out Sequim’s Summer Steenberg. What transpired was a grudge match that tested both wrestlers.
“I just went out there and did what I do best,” White said. “I just try to stay busy and to keep moving. It allows me better chances to score.”
Neither wrestler could do much in the first period, with White gaining some advantage on takedown attempts, but being unable to score.
In the second round, White was in the top position and Steenberg quickly escaped for a 1-0 lead. Even coming out of the escape, Steenberg was called for stalling and it would play into the match later.
White continued her aggressive style through the second period and earned one point on another Steenberg stall call at 1-1.
In the third, both wrestlers still blocked and muscled each other. White escaped from the down position for the lead and earned another stall point, at 3-1, with 1:25 left. White would be penalized for a stall as well, but she kept Steenberg on the defensive en route to a 5-2 win.
“This is really cool; it’s been something we’ve been working toward all year,” White said. “We’re really proud to be taking home the state title. Everyone has been working together, both the boys and the girls, to get this. This is what we’ve been working for and it is cool that we got it.”
Kyra Butler
At 119, Butler was the first Hoquiam wrestler to try for the state title and faced Kelso’s Veronica Mendoza.
Both wrestlers used the first minute to see what they could do against the other before Butler took Mendoza down for the opening points with 49.6 seconds left in the period.
Mendoza tried to stand up twice, but Butler kept her down. On the third try, Butler tried to shove Mendoza’s head back down to the mat, but the Kelso wrestler got position for a reversal to Butler’s back.
With 25 seconds left in the period, Butler tried to fight off Mendoza, but the pin was awarded with 2.8 seconds left to Mendoza. The move was remeniscent of Butler’s semifinal win over Central Valley’s Emily Juhre — Juhre reversed Butler to her back late in the first period, but time ran out before the pin.
“She just caught me; I tried to keep her down, but was unable to do so,” Butler said of the final match. “She was able to get around me and she caught me.”
Nicole Hyde
At 145, Aberdeen’s lone representative in the girls tournament found herself caught on the wrong side of a move known as a “cow catcher” and was pinned by Mount Baker’s Ashlee Phy in 1:16.
With both wrestlers in the standing position, grappling for position, Phy caught Hyde falling backward and nailed the finishing move.
Aberdeen coach Randy Connelly said it was uncharacteristic for Hyde to caught in such a predicament.
“It was just a freak thing,” Connelly said. “I think she (Hyde) was more nervous than normal, being in a state championship match at the Dome, but that happens.”
Hyde was a pool winner in the prior two exhibition tournaments held during Mat Classic weekend and became the first Aberdeen girls placewinner.
“She’s got absolutely nothing to be ashamed of; she’s had a great career for Aberdeen. First place twice, and a second at the Dome, not too bad.”
Third-fourth
Elma’s Mackenzie Glerup took home the Eagles’ first girls medal when she knocked off Chief Leschi’s Casandra Lezard in the consolation semifinals in 31 seconds. In the third-fourth place match, Glerup faced Burlington-Edison’s Anne Barnett.
In the regional tournament, Glerup defeated Barnett. This time, Barnett didn’t allow Glerup to get any offense in and cruised to a 4-1 win.
Hoquiam’s two remaining wrestles on Saturday — Tess Grannemann and Whitney McCormick — were eliminated in consolation matches.
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Bill Dickens
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 18, 2007
Ana'i Novoa doesn't think of herself as a novelty. The Hoover senior takes her wrestling seriously.
Novoa didn't win a championship at last night's Division II finals at Mira Mesa High, but she gave her 103-pound opponent, Noland Nguyen of Oceanside, a fight to the finish before falling 9-5.
“I've wrestled a couple of girls in the past, but none as tough as her,” said Nguyen (27-10).
Novoa led 3-2 after the opening two minutes, but the second period belonged to Nguyen.
“I used my standup move and then a cradle for a near-pin,” said Nguyen, who took an 8-3 advantage into the final period.
Despite losing, Novoa was pleased by her performance.
“I felt kind of overpowered,” she said. “I think he was stalling there in the end.”
The team championship went to Scripps Ranch with 169 points even though the Falcons did not have an individual winner.
San Pasqual finished second with 160 points and had the most individual champions – Daniel French (160), Dominic Grippo (171) and Dave Dayani (285).
Dayani was named the outstanding heavyweight. All three of his wins came by fall.
Orange Glen's Modesto Olea (140) was selected the outstanding lightweight. Olea had three pins and a 15-0 romp over Helix's Victor Richmond in the final.
Novoa (30-12) advanced to the final with an impressive three-match run that included falls over San Pasqual's Derek Malone and Westview's Andrew Dibble. Novoa rolled over Kalani Hutchinson of Scripps Ranch 19-4 in the semifinals.
“She is very determined to be known as a wrestler, 'Not that girl who wrestles with the boys,' ” Hoover coach Mark Hoskisson said of Novoa, who finished sixth as a sophomore and again as junior.
A two-time winner of the Hoover Female Athlete of the Year, Novoa is also captain of the Cardinals wrestling team.
“Ana'i has earned the respect of her teammates,” Hoskisson said. “They know she's serious.”
It was love at first fight Novoa recalled of her beginnings.
“The first time I went out on that mat as a freshman, I knew it was something I really wanted to do,” she said.
Nguyen powered to a pair of a lopsided decisions and then slipped past Bonita Vista's Jeff Breton 6-5 in the semifinals.
“I felt tired all day,” Nguyen said. “But I took a cold shower right before the final and I felt strong when I went out there.”
Nguyen said he did not design any special strategy because he was facing Novoa.
“I wrestled her just like I would any guy,” he said.
Added Novoa, “At first people did not take me seriously. Now, that I've been doing it for four years, people think of me more as a force.”
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High School wrestling sectional finals
Updated: 2/18/2007 11:15 AM
By: Web Staff
Amy Whitbeck Video |
High School Sectional Finals for wrestling took place at the Glens Falls Civic Center, and any wrestling fans in the area know this name--Amy Whitbeck.
If you don't know who she is, Whitbeck made history last year winning a sectional title.
At 103 pounds, Whitbeck is looking to defend that title. She's going up against Kirk Harrington of Hudson Falls. Whitbeck comes into sectionals seeded first and Harrington seeded second.
It was a tough fought match, but Whitbeck came out on top and held on to her crown.
She's paving the way for other girls in the sports.
"Last year there was only two girls, this year there's four. I came to sectionals and all four of them placed. That's really good," Whitbeck said.
And one of the other girls she's talking about at 96 pounds is freshman Sarah Anderson of Schuylerville who took on John Delaney of Watervliet.
Anderson came into sectionals seeded second. She pinned Delaney and got her first sectional win.
Other wins include Michael Chaires of CBA over Alex Steciuk of Ballston Spa in the 160 weight class. This was Chaires third sectional championship.
Shendahowa's Hunter Meys wins at 171 pounds and his brother Austin won at 140 pounds.
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County champ
Smithsburg wrestler first female to win title
by ANDREW MASON andrewm@herald-mail.com 2/18/07
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WILLIAMSPORT - By just being herself, Smithsburg freshman Monica Hovermale made history Saturday at the 17th annual Washington County Public Schools Wrestling Tournament.
"I just wrestle hard and give it my all," Hovermale said. "I'm just like any other wrestler out there."
The difference is that she's the only female varsity wrestler in the county this season. And Saturday, she became the county's first female champion.
In the championship finals, Hovermale pinned South Hagerstown's Dane Devin in the second period to win the 103-pound weight class.
"I was a little nervous, but when I got into the match, I calmed down," said Hovermale, who improved her season record to 20-11. "It was exciting. (Devin) is good. He fought hard."
She also helped Smithsburg win its third straight county team title.
"My teammates pumped me up a lot," said Hovermale, who pinned North Hagerstown's Jesse Miller in the first period of the semifinals. "Everyone knew we needed to win, and we needed pins."
Her older brother, Justin, a senior 152-pounder at Smithsburg, won his second straight county title. At 28-0, he also is the county's only unbeaten wrestler this season.
But when he was a freshman, he had to settle for second place in the county.
"Monica's had the benefit of having people beat up on her, like me," Justin said, laughing.
"She wrestled well today," he said. "It was impressive. I'm proud of her."
Her title came as no big surprise, though. She entered the tournament 5-0 against the county's other 103-pounders, as her success as a female wrestle hardly was a novelty anymore.
Saturday, she was just a champion wrestler.
"Having a freshman win is awesome, whether it's a boy or a girl," Smithsburg coach Joe Dietrich said. "We've only ever had a few do it."
The previous best showing by a girl at the county tournament was a third-place finish by North Hagerstown's Stacey Hott at 125 pounds in 1996.
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: Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, US 2/18/07
The New York Times has an article today on a trend that isn't really new, but it is growing, and that is high school girls wrestling with the boys.
Nationwide, about 5,000 high school girls wrestled last year, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, nearly five times as many as a decade earlier. Those numbers are no doubt low, since many states failed to report girls’ wrestling participation, but whatever the full count, it is dwarfed by the quarter-million boys who wrestle.
I don't doubt that the girls are fully capable of competing with the boys, and I'll pass along a personal anecdote to that effect. I did not wrestle, but I had a little bit of wrestling training and a there were a few people who wanted to wrestle. One day a female friend of mine was feeling full of "girl power" decided that she wanted to wrestle and gave me no choice in the matter. I found her to be stronger than I anticipated and her flexibility was a big advantage (this was all clean and on the up and up for those of you with less than pristine minds). After that experience, I did not doubt that they could compete with boys in that sport, even if many are at a certain strength disadvantage.
The mixed gender part of the wrestling can be very uncomfortable for some guys, though, especially those who grow up in families that emphasize traditional values. From the Times:
Occasionally, boys choose to forfeit rather than wrestle a girl, as happened at a Dobbs Ferry High School exhibition match this season, leaving Sophia Veiras, a sophomore, with no one to fight.
“It’s always a little intimidating for the boys at first,” said Jamie Block, the coach at the school, in Westchester. “They’re raised not to do this to a girl. And the thing about Sophia is, she’s very good. If you don’t really fight, she’ll pummel you. The girls who come out for wrestling now, they go to wrestling camps in the summer. They’re serious.”
A friend of mine was a top wrestler in the state in his weight class. Every year he was a favorite going into the state tournament. He refused to wrestle the girls, period, and would forfeit the occasional match he'd have against one. It wasn't sexism. He and his coach (his father) just chose for him not to wrestle girls because it went against what they believed. Even in a competitive environment, it was not right to do this to a girl. I'll say from my own free-lanced experience, it is very uncomfortable for a boy. Wrestling hurts, and you don't want to do things that hurt girls. In some cases, this does give girls an added mental advantage against the boys. Maybe that just balances out the strength difference, but there is something about it that just doesn't feel kosher. My friend had the luxury of taking a blemish or two on his record each season. Not all of the boys have that luxury and have to do something they'd prefer not to.
I am a proponent of girls playing sports with boys when they are good enough to do so. Growing up playing baseball, we had a girl in our leagues who was better than most of the boys. In fact, one year she hit a double in a tough situation that knocked my team out of a tournament. If she had chosen to try out for the high school baseball team and made because of her ability, I'd have been pleased because it would have made our team better (she went out for softball instead). Wrestling is the one sport where coed competition leaves me very uncomfortable, though. The one on one nature and the pain that comes with it change the dynamics of coed sporting competition.
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WA becomes 3rd state with sanctioned girls wrestling championship
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press Writer
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- Placed right at the 50-yard line, amid the sea of 24 wrestling mats blanketing the football turf of the Tacoma Dome Friday, were a pair of specially designated mats.
They were prominently placed, in the middle of the spacious, wooden-roof dome, so everyone would take notice of the history being made.
On those two mats, Washington became just the third state in the country to hold a sanctioned high school state wrestling championship for girls, joining Hawaii and Texas. But it's been an eight-year drought in officially recognizing girls prep wrestling since Texas sanctioned both boys and girls tournaments in 1999.
While invitationals and exhibitions of girls wrestling are prevalent around the country, Washington officials beamed with pride Friday when whistles blew for the first sanctioned matches at 10 a.m.
"Four years ago, we saw the need to do something," said Jim Meyerhoff of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, and the director of the "Mat Classic" tournament. "We were having more and more girls participate at the high school level in boys wrestling. Our ultimate goal was to get girls wrestling girls, and guys wrestling guys as quick as we can."
It appears to have worked. Seventy-two girls, representing 53 schools and competing in nine weight classes, took the mat on Friday. When counts were taken early in the wrestling season, Washington had 375 girls from 125 schools competing, up from the 156 girls of last year.
Washington's numbers parallel the growth in the sport nationwide. According to surveys from the National Federation of State High School Associations 2,361 girls nationwide participated in girls' wrestling in 1999 when Texas sanctioned girls wrestling.
Last year, the number had jump to almost 5,000, and Gary Abbott of USA Wrestling says those numbers should be higher as some states failed to report. Washington's state tournament also comes the week that Oklahoma City University announced it's adding women's wrestling as an intercollegiate sport, becoming the fifth college in the country.
Women's wrestling was also an Olympic sport for the first time in 2004.
"Girls wrestling is no longer some sort of unique thing. It's everywhere and known," Abbott said.
Junior Sarah Rowen of Columbia River High School in Vancouver, Wash. got the distinction of being the first match winner, giving her opponent, Sandy Nguyen, a bloody lip, before recording the fall in 2 minutes, 22 seconds.
Rowen just started wrestling four years ago, but is already ranked No. 9 in the country in the 100-pound class by the U.S. Girls Wrestling Association. She competed in the last two girls' invitationals held alongside the boys state tournament, but those matches were relegated to gaps in the hectic schedule on whatever side mats were available.
"We're usually shoved in the back and put in wherever we can," Rowen said. "It's good they're bringing it out a lot more. They're starting to show a lot more respect for it."
Throughout the day, the intensity on the two girls' mats equaled anything found on the other 22 designated for the five boys' tournaments running simultaneously. Coaches screamed themselves hoarse trying giving advice, while pantomiming moves from their corners.
Cheerleaders plopped down along the edge of the mat and went through the same series of cheers, whether it was a girl or boy being rooted on.
Many of the girls spent the moments leading up to their matches signaling friends and family in the stands to make sure they were paying attention. Six girls ranked in the latest USGWA ranking participated in this first state tournament, which grouped all wrestlers into one bracket. One school, Hoquiam, qualified more girls (six) than boys (three).
Based on the recent growth, the WIAA may be able to run two brackets for girls, based on school enrollment, within a few years, Meyerhoff said.
"It's going to snowball," he said.
Other states might not be far behind Washington. California, which has the most girls participating of any state, has sanctioned Northern and Southern California championships for girls.
Kent Bailo, USGWA director, believes a number of states - Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Iowa and Indiana among them - may be headed toward sanctioned state tournaments for girls in the near future.
"It's phenomenal, as a matter of fact," Bailo says of the growth. "We're not such an unusual commodity anymore."
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Prep championships - Rowen, Cox make history in girls wrestling tourney
Sunday, February 18, 2007
By BRIAN T. SMITH Columbian Staff Writer
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Columbia River’s Sarah Rowen became the state’s first girls wrestling state champion when she won the 103-pound final Saturday night in Tacoma. (MIKE SALSBURY/The Columbian)
Camas’ Termae Rowshan, left, congratulates La Center’s Chris Cox on her state championship at 130 pounds. (MIKE SALSBURY/The Columbian) |
TACOMA -- Columbia River junior Sarah Rowen doesn't have to prove anything to anyone ever again.
Rowen took first place in the 103-pound weight class in the first ever official girls wrestling state championship at the Tacoma Dome on Saturday evening.
Rowen held on to defeat Jackson's Tara Miller 3-2.
With the victory, Rowen became the first girl to ever be crowned state champion.
After three years of state exhibition round-robin tournaments, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association created a separate general classification tournament for girls this year.
"To be the first girl to ever win this is just incredible," Rowen said. "It was a tough match...she was stronger than I thought. But I just kept listening to my coaches. I knew they believed in me."
Rowen took an early 2-0 lead in the match. But Miller brought it to within 3-2 with 1 minute, 8 seconds left. Columbia River coach Joe Reed then began to shout out for Rowen to hold on.
She did.
"When Sarah started wrestling for us, some of the boys gave her a hard time," Reed said. "Now, they say she's not a girl, she's a wrestler. Sarah earned this victory. I'm blessed to coach her."
Clark County claimed another girls state champion when La Center junior Chris Cox won by technical fall with 1:11 remaining in her match against Kentwood's Jolene Crook-Meyers.
As soon as Cox was declared the winner at 130, she ran and jumped in the arms of Wildcats coach Jeff Nevels.
"She beat me in the regionals before, so I redeemed myself tonight," Cox said. "I'm almost speechless right now. To be one of the first girls to ever win at state is a dream come true."
Nevels praised Cox for her dedication.
"Chris is one of the best wrestlers we have, period," Nevels said. "She goes up against the boys in practice. She's a great worker, and this is a huge win for La Center."
Behind Cox's victory, the La Center girls placed sixth out of 61 teams with 24 points. Columbia River was ninth in the team competition, with 21 points.
Camas junior Termae Rowshan looked destined to win the 125-pound championship early in her match against Hoquiam's Kelsey Klein.
Rowshan was up 2-0 after the first two minutes and in control.
But Klein gained three quick points late in the third round, and Rowshan began to suffer from asthma.
However, Rowshan didn't quit. She battled back to tie the match at 5 with just eight seconds remaining. Gaining three points on what was originally called an escape and takedown by officials, Rowshan appeared to have pushed the match into overtime.
Yet a lengthy discussion ensued, and tournament officials ruled Rowshan's move a two-point reversal.
With the score change, Rowshan fell 5-4 to Klein, and earned second place.
"This will be hard for Termae, but she'll bounce back," Camas coach Glenn Hartman said. "It was a close call. Termae's been so great for our program, and I'm really proud of her. She's as loyal as they come."
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Eureka Takes HDN League Team Wrestling Championship: Sylvia, Bruckenstein & Thurston Honored
Neil Tarpey/The Times-Standard
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FORTUNA -- The Eureka Loggers, Jim Sylvia, Sara Hubbard, Chris Hubbard, Casey Bruckenstein and John Thurston.
They were the big winners at the 37th annual Humboldt-Del Norte League Wrestling Championships, held at the Fortuna High gym on Saturday.
Eureka took first place among the nine teams with 185.50 total points, and the Loggers had two first place winners, Leo Garcia at 130, and Peter Riendeau at 145.
”I'm excited at how far we've come from the beginning of the season, because we have a really young team,” said Eureka head coach Keith Adams. “They've put in the hard work.”
The legendary Jim Sylvia received a warm standing ovation and a special award from the HDN officials, coaches, and wrestlers for his “unwavering commitment to the betterment of the sport of wrestling” as a wrestler, coach, official and community member.
Part of the announcer's comments about him said that Sylvia “continually thinks about others before himself.”
Well, folks, the speech writers accurately described this legend's warm personality and his interest in helping young people.
On two occasions during Saturday's championship meet, Sylvia tracked me down to make sure that
I was aware of individual wrestlers' special accomplishments.
The first time was to notify me that Ferndale's Sara Hubbard, who took second at 103, was the first girl in the history of HDN wrestling to make it to the finals in her weight class.
The other occasion was when Sylvia pointed out that Chris Hubbard, who took first at 171, was only the fifth wrestler in HDN history -- and the first in 17 years --to become a four-time champion.
The previous four-time winners, all from Arcata High, were Garth Conner (1981-84), John Puzz (1984-87), Richard Englund (1984-87), and Robert Shannon (1987-90).
South Fork's Casey Bruckenstein, who won a major decision, 11-0, over Eureka's Jacob Wakeland in the 140 finals, was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler in the lower weight classes. Bruckenstein had moved up from his customary 135-pound weight class.
Arcata's Trent Stevenson, who moved down from 140, used a variety of solid moves in his victory at 135 over Eureka's Jake Cruz.
Stevenson had been named the Most Outstanding Wrestler of the lower weight brackets at the 19-team North Coast Classic last month, when he won the 142-pound class at that event.
Ferndale's John Thurston, who defeated arch-rival Sherman Norton of Del Norte, 4-1, in the 275 finals, was selected as the Most Outstanding Wrestler in the upper weight classes.
In their titanic struggle, Thurston led only 2-1, but scored two points with fifteen seconds left in the match to secure the victory.
Besides the Thurston vs. Norton match, there were two other great battles that generated fan interest and loud cheering.
One was Hubbard's win at 171, a hard -fought, 2-1, overtime clash with McKinleyville's Michael Larson.
And the other was the 191-pound contest, a 13-12 thriller, in which Hoopa Valley's Alex Pratt prevailed over Del Norte's Jacob Young.
I would also like to point out the skills and courage of McKinleyville's Josh Alvarado, who took third at 140, despite the disadvantage of wrestling with one hand, due to a birth defect. Well done, young man.
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Girl wrestles to top
Arundel's Woody become first female champ
By SEAN BURNS, Staff Writer 2/18/07
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A quick turn of the shoulders, a whistle and a slap of the hand on the mat. A sequence that took less than five seconds made some wrestling history last night at Arundel High School as the Wildcats' Nicole Woody became the first female wrestler to win a weight class in the 48-year history of the Anne Arundel County tournament.
Woody, who finished second in last year's tournament, pinned South River's Curtis Taylor with 18 seconds remaining in the third period, turning him after opening an 8-2 lead.
"It's definitely nice to finally have this one in my pocket," said Woody, whose Arundel team finished fourth, 80 points Old Mill, which captured the team title for the 17th time. "I don't think it'll silence any of the people that doubted me... Now they'll stop saying 'she's never won county's' and go to 'she's never won regions or states', for some people, that's never going to end."
For Woody, the win was business as usual though, for even as she accepted congratulations from friends and teammates, she said she didn't have much in mind as far as celebrations go.
"I'm going to go home and go to bed, then I'm waking up early to finish my homework and get right back to work Monday," she said. "This is Part I. I've still got two more weeks of wrestling left."
The Patriots also went about business as usual, winning their fourth tournament title in the last five years by putting six grapplers in the finals and winning five of those bouts. By doing so, they widened what had been a 16-point lead going into the finals into a 27-point victory over second-place Severna Park (215-188). Chesapeake was third with 155.5 points, with Arundel (135) and 2006 champ Broadneck (128) rounding out the top five.
"We're very happy with how well the kids wrestled, and we got nine into regions," said Patriots head coach Jim Grim, which had first-place finishes from Greg Saumenig (125), Tim Lobuglio (130), Nic Box (152), Ethan Brown (189) and Justin Faithful (285). "But I told these guys, you can be happy tonight, but you get right back into the gym tomorrow, and Monday we practice hard to get ready for the last two weeks."
One thing that helped Old Mill distance itself from the Falcons was winning two of the three head-to-head matches it had in the finals with Severna Park wrestlers. Saumenig won his third-straight county title by pinning Matt Herzberg with six seconds remaining at 125 poinds and Box took a 4-2 overtime victory over Joe Shum at 160. The only match of the three that the Falcons won was Billy Nichols' pin of Jon Sillaman at 171, by which point the outcome of the meet was decided.
"Both of us had a lot of adrenaline pumping out there," said Saumenig, whose pin was preceded by a near-disqualification after Herzberg took exception to a hard takedown out of bounds and cost himself a point for swinging at the defending state champ. "There was a lot of emotion, we've just got to keep that going."
Falcons coach Paul Joyce was happy with the emotion that his team showed, as they got championship wins from both Nichols and Allen Black, who took a 17-7 major decision over Stuart Goldberg of Broadneck at 135. Though his team couldn't maintain their lead after the first day, it advanced at least eight to the regions.
"I'm really proud of how we wrestled," said Joyce, whose team had four second place, two third place and a fourth place finisher. "We only have four seniors, so we're very excited about the future if we can come out and have the intensity that we had this weekend.
Chesapeake also had one champion, as Jarrid Bosque took the 119-pound class with a 21-2 technical fall over Annapolis' John Graham. All 14 of the Cougars' grapplers placed in the top seven, as Tyler Ernest (112) and Chris Blake (145) took second and another two took third.
"Honestly, we were looking for a little more out there... I thought we had some guys that could win this thing, but it just didn't work out that way," coach Rex Miller said. "Hopefully we can peak in the next two weeks."
For the host Wildcats, Woody was the only champion, but three third-place finishes helped them keep pace with the tournament leaders, though like Miller, Royer had hoped for more out of his team, which was ranked second all season.
Broadneck had just one of its four finalists take first place, as Houston Zemanski won in overtime over Ernest, but Tom Mulligan (285), Goldberg (135) and Abe Hunter (152) all took home second.
For Hunter, it was the sixth time in as many tries he has been beaten by defending county and state champ Bubby Graham of Annapolis, who took a 4-1 decision. The pair faced off in the finals of the county, region and state tournaments last year.
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1 - Old Mill, 215; 2 - Severna Park, 188; 3 - Chesapeake 155.5; 4 - Arundel, 135; 5 - Broadneck, 128; 6 - Annapolis, 112; 7 - South River, 99.5; 8 - Northeast, 72; 9 - North County, 58.5; 10 - Glen Burnie, 51; 10 - Meade, 51; 12 - Southern, 13.
103: N. Woody (AR) p. C. Taylor (SR), 5:42; 3 - E. Levine (ANN); 4 - R. Riley (CH); 112: H. Zemanski (BN) d. T. Ernest (CH), 14-12 (OT); 3 - J. Ackerman (OM); 4 - A. Lewis (AR); 119: J. Bosque (CH) tf. J. Graham (ANN), 21-2; 3 - W. Pumphrey (OM); 4 - K. Armstrong (AR); 125: G. Saumenig (OM) p. M. Herzberg (SP), 5:54; 3 - J. Kidwell (AR); 4 - J. Reed (BN); 130: T. Lobuglio (OM) md. Z. West (NE), 14-3; 3 - T. Maranto (CH); 4 - M. Monroe (SP); 135: A. Black (SP) md. S. Goldberg (BN), 17-7; 3 - P. Byrd (ANN); 4 - T. Stubbs (SR); 140: M. Fleming (NE) md. Z. Shreve (SP), 14-3; 3 - C. Ridolfi (GB); 4 - B. Payne (ME); 145: Z. Jankiewicz (GB) d. C. Blake (CH), 4-1; 3 - J. Travers (OM); 4 - D. Furman (NC); 152: B. Graham (ANN) d. A. Hunter (BN), 4-1; 3 - M. Taglienti (AR); 4 - M. Otwell (NC); 160: N. Box (OM) d. J. Shum (SP), 4-2 (OT); 3 - Z. O'Keefe (CH); 4 - J. Davis (ME); 171: B. Nichols (SP) p. J. Sillaman (OM), 5:53; 3 - P. Carey (NC); 4 - T. Bonner (ANN); 189: E. Brown (OM) d. I. Graham (SR), 5-2; 3 - M. Massie (SP); 4 - C. Treadway (BN); 215: P. LaPaglia (SR) p. P. Downey (SP), 5:54; 3 - Z. Mitchell (AR); 4 - M. Walamulumba (ME); 285: J. Faithful (OM) d. T. Mulligan (BN), 5-2; 3 - J. Planz (SP); 4 - E. Mauler (SR)
