The New England Championships are coming up this weekend. This tournament marks the end of the wrestling season. Western Mass Wrestling, this year, consists of thirteen Division One teams and eighteen Division Three teams. That means that Western Mass would have around 400 varsity wrestlers. The final tournament of the season will include 9 of them. [...]
The Golden Eagles traveled to Lowell for the state semifinals tonight and came so very close but just short of winning. Most fans thought that this would be a blowout by Lowell. After all, Lowell had been beating teams into submission all year. Some thought that Central couldn't run with the "Big Dogs". What Lowell [...]
The state tournament is always a long grueling two days that can race you up and down the scale of emotions at any given time. There are always great wrestling matches with stunning victories and disappointing defeats. When you spend an entire year with a bunch of guys, you feel every victory and every disappointment [...]
The stage was set on Saturday. The Western Mass Wrestling team championship would be decided at Agawam's gym with Agawam as the number one seed. West Springfield took the number two seed, Ludlow the number three and Central pulling up the rear with the number four seed. The guys from Central were three time defending [...]
The luxury of writing a blog, is that I can take some time to let things sink in before I actually put them in writing. It's a good thing, because after clerking the Western Mass tournament all day, I was in no shape to be writing an opinion about the tournament. By the time I [...]
The postseason is upon is, and you know what that means. It's time to make meaningless comments and predictions about the upcoming tournaments that have absolutely no chance of being right. With today being a matchless Wednesday, I will take this opportunity to put my meaningless thoughts and opinions down for all to laugh at. [...]
All things come to an end in time and this night a four year streak came to an end for the Golden Eagles. Central had not lost to a Western Mass team since the 2004 season. In the final match of this season, with the league championship up for grabs, the West Side Terriers defeated [...]
