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Entries for January, 2007

Ludlow

Tonight is the last regular meet of the season against the Ludlow Lions. We haven't seen Ludlow all season, so I am not real familiar with their lineup. I do know that they do not match up well with us. They have a few extremely talented wrestlers that will score them some points, but I [...]

Northeast Duals Champs!

The Guys Celebrate with the new Trophy   When the Golden Eagles walked into the gym at Putnam High for the Northeast Duals, they didn't have a lot of high expectations. This was supposed to be a day where they would hopefully come up against some difficult opponents and get some good wrestling in. After [...]

CLINCHED!

I am almost afraid to write about this. I am afraid that somehow it would be bad luck to celebrate this before the end of the season. We still have a tough match against Ludlow before its all over, but it wouldn't be right not to at least mention it. With one week left in [...]

Senior Night

  Seniors from left clockwise: Alex Bonilla, Ryan Murphy,Evan Graham, Mike "Smitty" Smith, Darryl Walker, and Jose Cabrera Tonight was Senior Night and 6 Seniors were honored at the crossmats. The crowd responded with rousing ovations as each name was announced. The boys came out to take their bows and then went back to the [...]

Longmeadow

Wednesday night is senior night. This is the last home meet of the regular season and we will be honoring all of the seniors on the team. Come on out to the gym and show your support. We have a lot of senior starters this year that will be leaving. They are Jose Cabrera, Darryl [...]

Aside

Sorry, I just need to take a moment to digress. This has nothing to do with wrestling, but a lot to do with me. It's my birthday today. I will spend my birthday with my family. My wife, my son and my cat. We are, all of us, going to go out tonight. My cat [...]

Natick

Central Brings 5 Champions Home From Natick     5 Champions at Natick   At Top is George Hargrove (160) and Evan Graham (171) At Bottom is Darryl Walker (145), Jose Cabrera (112) and Ryan Murphy (189) Central made a great showing at the Natick Invitational Tournament yesterday. The team came in second place to the Natick [...]

Paying the price

Its 11:00 PM, I just finished rolling my 200th sandwich wrap of the season in preparation for tomorrows tournament in Natick. I am sitting in front of the TV looking at the clock and wondering why I am still awake at this hour when I  must get up at 5:30 AM tomorrow. This is when [...]

'Chaug Revisited

Hmmmmmm. I was right. I didn't have a clue how it was going to go. For some reason I thought that this was going to be harder than it was. I was playing with the scenarios all week and kept coming up with a score of 34-27 with Central winning. I didn't have a clue. [...]

Good Job Mike Bogen

After complaining about the news coverage last Friday, I thought it would only be fair to give credit where credit is due. Mike Bogen's coverage of the West Side Duals was great. It was a nice article with something about all the local teams. That's the kind of news coverage we need to fuel interest [...]