BOBBY LOUGHRIDGE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT: T.O. OVERCOMES HOST HIGHLAND BROCKERT'S PIN SEALS COMEBACK WIN.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Staff Writer PALMDALE - Greg Brockert of Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. High pinned Highland of Palmdale's Earlwin Franklin in the second period to clinch a 42-39 championship victory for the Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. at the 12th annual Bobby Loughridge Invitational wrestling tournament Saturday at Highland. Brockert, 215 pounds, was in command from the beginning, and the pin was Thousand Oaks' third in a row after trailing 33-24 with four matches remaining. Brockert went 5-0 - including one heavyweight victory - during the two-day, 10-team event, raising his season record to 21-6 with 20 pins. He knew he had an opportunity to clinch the tournament - and that's just how he wanted it. ``I like being in that position a lot. It feels great and I'm real happy,'' Brockert said. ``I'd rather be the one to win or lose it instead of having the whole match in someone else's hands. If that was the case there wouldn't be anything I could do about it.'' Highland wasted five pins of its own. A key turning point turned out to be Thousand Oaks 112-pounder John Tran's surprising pin over Brennan Lang, Highland's leading career scorer. Tran, 16-8, has had his difficulties this season, but he found an opening when both wrestlers were rolling on the mat and Tran turned Lang over. ``I had heard a lot about Brennan and he was a lot stronger than me,'' Tran said. ``But I just didn't give up and figured I'd try to do whatever I could, then I saw an opening. I tried hard and the outcome turned out the way I wanted.'' Jacob Chun (119), Kevin Kemp (135), Gabe Sprigel (140), Shawn Riggs (171) and Aaron Wilson Aaron Wilson (b. December 20, 1980 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a lacrosse player for the Toronto Rock in the National Lacrosse League. Statistics NLL Regular Season Playoffs Season Team GP G A Pts LB PIM GP G A Pts LB PIM (189) also recorded pins for Thousand Oaks. Kemp needed just 38 seconds to flatten Jacques VanRooyen. Both teams were 9-0 in the round-robin tournament A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a type of group tournament in which each participant plays every other participant an equal number of times. In a single round-robin schedule, each participant plays every other participant once. entering the final. Thousand Oaks is 23-1 on the season, Highland 22-3. Highland, once the region's premier wrestling program, isn't what it used to be. Two of its graduates, Stuart Young For the former BBC chairman, see Stuart Young. Stuart Young (born December 16, 1972 in Hull, Yorkshire, England) is an English football (soccer) player. He last played profesionaly as a striker for the Australian A-League club Perth Glory where he joined in 2005 and (UC Davis) and John Garfinkel (Stanford), are competing in the Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members , but the Bulldogs haven't won their own tournament in four years. A bright spot for Highland was 160-pounder Dustin Alleman. He went 9-0 with seven pins, including an impressive stop of Thousand Oaks' Bryan Merrick, who got caught in a figure-four scissors hold scissors hold n. A wrestling hold in which the legs of one opponent are locked about the head or body of another opponent. Noun 1. . ``I use the figure-four whenever I get a chance,'' Alleman said. ``(Merrick) was tough, a real scrappy kid.'' Highland's Kyle Burnett (103), Ryan D'Errico (125), Will French (130), Dan Frazer (145) and Abe Cantres (heavyweight) also recorded pins. D'Errico needed just 29 seconds. One of the highlights of Saturday's pool competition was El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Heavyweight Scott Nathan pinned Josh Suckle suck·le v. suck·led, suck·ling, suck·les v.tr. 1. a. To cause or allow to take milk at the breast or udder; nurse. b. To take milk at the breast or udder of. 2. with 10 seconds remaining to put an exclamation point exclamation point: see punctuation. exclamation point - exclamation mark on the win. Nathan had lost to Suckle on Thursday. ``It felt wonderful the way we came back and fixed everything. I can't explain what it feels like,'' Nathan said. ``My heart was racing, but all I could do was wrestle my match. The rest of the team did a wonderful job so there was a lot of support.'' Littlerock junior Brian Jennings (125) was 9-0 in the tournament with seven pins. Jennings, a returning Golden League champion, improved his record to 30-1. Chatsworth junior Antonio Orozco, a 130-pounder, also established himself. He went 9-0, including a victory over highly regarded Kemp of Thousand Oaks. |
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