Jeffrey Worster wins 220-pound class, leads Oxford Hills to meet win.
Wrestling
Posted inNational Sports, Varsity Maine, Wrestling
New Jersey athletic association benching ref who told wrestler to cut dreadlocks
Jordan Burroughs, a 2012 gold medalist, calls incident “a combination of an abuse of power, racism and just plain negligence.”
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Posted insj-web, Varsity Maine, Wrestling
H.S. Wrestling: Franklin Savings Bank tournament in photos
Dirigo’s Logan Morris pins York/Traip’s Parker Blair at 106 pounds during the Franklin Savings Bank Classic wrestling tournament at Mountain Valley High School in Rumford on Saturday. (Submitted photo courtesy of Sue DeGroot) Dirigo’s Colton Carlow pins Wells’ Braeden MacNeil at 285 pounds during the Franklin Savings Bank Classic wrestling tournament at Mountain Valley High […]
Posted insj-web, Varsity Maine, Wrestling
PHOTOS: Oak Hill/Lisbon, Dirigo wrestlers hit the mat
Dirigo’s Owen Libby, top, tries to get control of Lisbon/Oak Hill’s Zoe Buteau during a high school wrestling meet at Lisbon on Saturday. Buteau won the 128-pound match by decision. (Bob Conn/The Times Record) Jack Tibbets of Lisbon/Oak Hill ties up Dirigo’s Jason Beaucage during their 126-pound match at Lisbon High School on Saturday. Tibbets […]
Posted insj-web, Varsity Maine, Wrestling
Wrestling preview: Zoe Buteau's second senior project? A state title
Oak Hill High School senior Zoe Buteau’s goal is to be the first girl to win a state championship in a Maine Principal’s Association sanctioned meet. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) LISBON — Zoe Buteau selected an unusual endeavor for her senior project at Oak Hill High School — she organized a preseason high school wrestling meet. […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Wrestling
‘Old-school roughhouse:’ Ring of Honor Wrestling hits Lewiston
LEWISTON — Say wrestling is fake if you want to, but the sounds of bones meeting canvas sounded pretty real Wednesday night at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. Not to mention the sounds of fist meeting chin, knee meeting gut and skull meeting turnbuckle. “Whoa,” gasped a boy of about 10, toting a foam finger as […]
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Pro wrestling: Champion Jay Lethal, Ring of Honor making first stops in Maine
Jay Lethal kicks Will Ospreay during a Ring of Honor match. Lethal, the Ring of Honor world champion, will be appearing at the promotion’s Global Wars tour event at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Wednesday. (Ring of Honor photo) The popularity of professional wrestling has probably never been more varied and widespread than it has […]
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Rumford native Dave Giroux joining wrestling hall of fame
Rumford native Dave Giroux, left, with Gerald Perkins. Giroux will be inducted into the Maine Amateur Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame on Saturday. (Submitted photo) When Dave Giroux stepped on a wrestling mat he was routinely dwarfed by his opponents. However, heart and desire are difficult to measure, and the amount Giroux had of both […]
Posted inNational Sports, Wrestling
WWE women have created a movement. Is it built to last?
When World Wrestling Entertainment star Sasha Banks started watching wrestling as a child, her favorite wrestler was Eddie Guerrero, one of the most charismatic, creative and technically gifted wrestlers of all time. Her options for a favorite female wrestler were more limited. “At that time, there were great, athletic women that would have matches that […]
Posted inLivermore Falls Advertiser, Local Sports, sj-web, The Franklin Journal, Varsity Maine, Wrestling
Time-out: Athletes to march off to summer sports camps, clinics
Give me one good reason why your kid should spend long summer days staring at the phone, computer or worse — binge watching on Netflix. If they are bored or can’t amuse themselves, call your local parks and recreation center to find your kid a camp — and stop paying them to mow the lawn or take out […]