I wanted to let everyone know that we had a very successful turn out at the MYA Tournament this past weekend!  The results are posted below.

This signifies the end of our regular season of BGCGN Youth Wrestling.  We will be having our end of season Party on March 28th at the club (more details to follow in separate email). 

We will continue to have practice on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning at 6:30 pm in the gym.  These practices are to benefit kids that will be wrestling in the Derry Rebel Classic on March 22nd.  This is a highly competitive tournament.  If you have a child that wants to wrestle in this tournament please reply to me via email or see me Tuesday night at practice.

There are some "select" tournaments going on around the region.  If you have any questions about them please let me know immediately.

Here are the results from the MYA Tournament:

Champions
Blake Poteet 57 lbs
Nathan Zalzal 63 lbs
Keegan Mills 65 lbs
AJ Vitale 70 lbs

Runner Ups
Ryan Jigarjian 52 lbs
Owen Duda 62 lbs

3rd Place
Brody Mills 46 lbs
Jean Paul Diaz 55 lbs
Nikolas Hellwig 83 lbs

4th Place
Jack Zabriskie 52 lbs
Mike Zabriskie 56 lbs
Isiah Crump 61 lbs

Thanks to all for your efforts and support this year! 

Coach Poteet

Some praise from your coaches after the Nashua North/South Wrestling Meet:

From Coach Joe Laplante:
"...Coach Rowlette, Coach Poteet and I, and all of the other coaches, want you to know how proud we are of how the kids conducted themselves at the high school meet Thursday night. The kids always behave well when we're out as a team in public, including our annual outing at the North/South meet, but this year they were especially well-behaved and mature. They ate their meal in a neat and orderly fashion in the bleechers, and sat as they were told on a line on the gym floor next to the mat during the high school meet. We didn't have to chase any kids around, discipline anyone, or deal with anything but polite, obedient, enthusiatic youth wrestlers. I hope you're proud of these kids. We certainly are. They reflect very
positively on BGCGN, our wrestling program, and on you, their parents."

From Coach Herb Bennett:
"...This was by far the best meet I have attended with the wrestlers from BGCGN that I have taken part in. I was actually able to watch the meet between North and South without having to attend to runaways. Please thank all the kids. On another note you all should be seeing by now they have come a long way since day one...notice that the practices have kicked it up a notch, this is due to they have now become WRESTLERS... Their hard work has really started to show and can only get better with practice and dedication to trying. It is with great pleasure I THANK YOU ALL..." 

Great job, team!!!

The Big East Regional Tournaments will be held Sunday February 1 at North Andover HS, Nashoba Regional HS and Duxbury HS.

 Big East 2009 Regional Tournament Assignments

North Andover HS
Andover
Danvers
Georgetown
Hamilton-Wenham
Haverhill
Lynnfield
Malden
Masconomet
Melrose
Methuen
North Andover
Pentucket
Reading
Tewksbury
Triton
Wakefield
Wilmington
Winchester
Woburn

Nashoba Regional HS
Academy Wrestling
Belmont
Billerica
Burlington
Chelmsford
Dracut
Fitchburgh
Hopkinton
Leominster
Lowell
Marlboro
Nashoba
Nashua
Natick
Sudbury
Tyngsborough
Waltham
Wayland
Westford

Duxbury HS
Bridgewater
Brookline
Canton
Carver
Dedham
Duxbury
East Bridgewater
Frederick MS
Josiah Quincy
Mansfield
North Attleboro
Norton
Park School
Pembroke
Plymouth South
Walpole
Whitman

Wrestlers will be grouped by birthyear NOT grade:

• 1994, 1995 & 1996

• 1997 & 1998

• 1999 & 2000

• 2001, 2002 & 2003