By Rusty Bryan
Published: January 31, 2012
While the races in Regions II, III and IV look to go down to the wire as the regular basketball season winds down over the next three weeks, Rota’s boys and girls and SHAPE’s girls took care of business last weekend in Region I.
Rota’s boys went 6-0 Thursday-Saturday at Alconbury, sweeping to the “small-schools” version of the Region I crown contested by Alconbury, Brussels, Menwith Hill and Rota. Rota’s girls were a three-ball away from duplicating their boys’ performance at Alconbury, falling to Brussels 16-14 to finish the three-day marathon at 5-1.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: January 23, 2012
Wrestlers in Europe don’t participate in dual meets, but Saturday’s four-team tournament at Vilseck was almost the same thing. With several placers from the 2011 European tournament squaring off, Patch edged Ramstein 264.5-243.5. Since Vilseck and Hohenfels were a distant third and fourth, with 72 and 10 points, respectively, and never figured in the final outcome, the quadrangular meet evolved into the equivalent of a Patch-Ramstein dual.
The 2011 103-pound champion, Ross Wilson, got the Panthers started by pinning 2011 103-pound runner-up Ryan Goins of Ramstein in 1:27 on Saturday to win the 113-pound class. Wilson decked Goins in 3:31 last February in the 103-pound European final.
