The Tribune-Democrat
November 04, 2008 12:31 am
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WRESTLING
PSU coach will hold local clinic
Penn State assistant wrestling coach Mark Perry will be conducting a clinic at Central Cambria High School on Nov. 8.
The clinic is open to any wrestler of high school age or younger and is open to students from any school district. It will run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Registration begins at 9 a.m.
Perry was a two-time national champion and four-time All-American at Iowa.
For more information, contact Jody Strittmatter at 421-1481.
MMA
Area fightersdo well in Ohio
Local fighters from Lion-Do Fight Club in Blairsville went 3-0 over the weekend in Marietta, Ohio.
Jesse Garshnick (2-0) defeated Matt Geier (0-1) at 175 pounds. Garshnick caught Geier in an armbar and forced him to submit at 1:36 of the first round.
Not to be outdone by his older brother, Eli Garshnick (1-0) made his mixed martial arts debut at 185 pounds and he caught Dan Serwatka (0-1) in the same kind of armbar at 1:44 of the first round.
At 145 pounds, Nick Kerr (3-0) scored a TKO in the third round over Mark Hill (0-1) from Team Jorge Gurgel in West Virginia.
Jon Neese of Marion Center was scheduled to fight, but his bout was canceled and his opponent was ruled ineligible because of age.
Geier and Serwatka both train at Damage Inc. in Johnstown.
Lion-Do will travel to Winchester, Va., on Nov. 21 for the Valley Fight League show. Jesse Garshnick will battle Blaine Thomas (4-0), a West Virginia-based fighter out of the Coalition Fight Club, for the VFL 175-pound title.
Kerr will have a title shot at 145 pounds, he takes on John Patti (2-1) also of the Coalition Fight Team.
Neese, 170-pounder Justin Head and 185-pounder Eli Garshnick will also be on the card.
FIELD HOCKEY
St. Francis’ player honored
St. Francis forward Belen Albanes was honored by the Northeast Conference as the women’s field hockey player of the week.
Albanes, who is the Red Flash’s all-time leading scorer, had three points in St. Francis’ 2-1 victory over rival Robert Morris last week. She scored her seventh goal of the season in the win and then fed Allison Severage for the game-winner in overtime.
She has 49 career points.
BASKETBALL
Loya wins at Senior Olympics
Jack Loya of Schellsburg took the gold medal in men’s basketball shooting – free throw and 3-point shots – during the the Delaware Senior Olympics.
He was a winner in Division I.
BOWLING
NEC recognizes Westmont grad
Westmont Hilltop graduate Kayla Jones, a freshman at Kutztown University, was named the Northeast Conference women’s bowling athlete and rookie of the week.
The awards were the first given by the conference in the inaugural season of women’s bowling for the NEC.
Jones posted both the highest average and best game of any NEC bowler at the Fairleigh Dickinson Fright Knight Invite last weekend.
Jones posted a 221.2 average over five traditional games to finish fourth and earn all-tournament honors.
She bowled a Kutztown record 275 against former national champion Vanderbilt, the nation’s No. 2 team.
She also knocked down 225 pins against defending champion Maryland-Eastern Shore.
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