WESTBROOK – The Blue Blazes hosted 10 other teams at the Southern Maine Community College’s gym Saturday afternoon for a daylong tournament that sets the stage for the remainder of the squads’ season.
Massabesic took top team honors, scoring 188 points and earning six first-place finishes, two seconds, a third and a fourth. Mountain Valley came in second, at 166 points with four firsts, four seconds and a fourth. Mt. Ararat placed third, at 120.5 with two firsts, four thirds and a fourth.
Westbrook took fourth, tallying 101 points on three second-place finishes, two thirds and two fourths. The Blue Blazes edged Cony, in fifth at 100 points even (three seconds, two thirds and three fourths). Sanford (84.5 with one first, one second, three thirds and a fourth) ranked sixth.
Marshwood (seventh place, 40.5 points), Bonny Eagle (eighth, 29), Brunswick (ninth, 20.5), Scarborough (tenth, 19) and Gorham (11th, 3) filled out the rest of the pack.
Eleven schools makes for a large tournament that becomes something of an endurance trial for participants. But the results factor into future seedings, and give coaches and athletes a chance to assess the competition.
145-pounders Ed Hall of Sanford and Derrick Bryant of Bonny Eagle vie for mat-supremacy. Bryant won the bout, but was eliminated in the next round by Kyle Hanson of Westbrook. Send questions/comments to the editors.
