NORTH EAST GETS WIN AGAINST ELKTON IN OVERTIME. 42-38

Elkton to just one point from the start of the second quarter until there was 5:39 left in the third quarter, turning a 14-8 deficit into a 22-15 lead.

The Golden Elks responded with a strong defensive stretch of their own when they held North East to just one point from 5:39 left in the third until 3:50 left in regulation, allowing them to take a 28-26 lead.

After Myaven Ewing gave Elkton a 32-30 lead with a basket with 1:28 remaining, Saylor

Bare got fouled with 24 seconds remaining, sending her to the foul line; and Bare coolly made both free throw to tie the game at 32-32, bouncing back after struggling from the charity stripe earlier in the game.

“She’s done that quite often. We don’t always get the numbers (from the foul line) that we want, but late in the game, we have made a few of them,” Haack said. “T was that mindset that we had a will to win.”

Saylor led North East with 15 points while Alania Foran and Abigail Cisneros had 9 and 8 points respectively.

Milana Redden scored 15 to led the Golden Elks while Aleigha Gangemi scored 11, and Elkton head coach Gabe Sherrod said his team needs to work on winning those 50/50 balls that decides games.

“Number one, we are still a work in progress. … We make mistakes that we shouldn’t be making. We give up some easy things, and our effort plays are so-so,” Sherrod said. “We have to get better at effort plays, and that was the difference tonight.”

West Nottingham building Girls Wrestling Team for National Competition.

COLORA - The WNA Wrestling program took its next steps toward becoming a nationally recognized home for Girls Wrestling when it travelled to Massachusetts to compete at their Andover Academy’s 9th Annual Girls Tournament.

Phillips Andover Academy are the defending National Prep Tournament champions and their event hosts some of the top ranked girls wrestlers in the country. Coach Kacey Michelsen and West Nottingham Academy committed to the reestablishment and development of the sport of Wrestling altogether at the Colora school while also ambitiously setting their sights on building a full girls program as part of their grand vision.

This weekend a local 9th grade wrestler, Reagan Ramadan, from North East and her teammate, Kiia Huovinen from Finland, stepped out on the mats and furthered that goal by each placing 2nd at this top flight tournament.

Reagan made the championship final after dominating her bracket and pushed last years 138 pound bronze medalist late into the third period down just 2-0. With the match there for the taking, Reagan went for gold resulting in a fall, but she certainly made an impression that won’t be forgotten when the Rams show up for the National Prep Championships in just four weeks.

Reagan started wrestling in The Bay Brawlers Wres- tling Club with Coach Tim Taylor and is showing the strong base she got through that program very early on in her High School career.

Kiia Huovinen wrestled the defending 132 pound gold medalist in her final and narrowly missed hitting a lateral drop on a wrestler that is a significant favorite to defend her title this year.

Coach Michelsen said, “I am incredibly proud of Reagan and Kiia. Their strength, courage, and willingness to learn from this experience are exactly the foundations that we were hoping to develop in this program. I can’t wait to see what they are able to do for the rest of this season and what their example will mean to those that follow them as we continue to go to big tournaments with high expectations. We had one All-American last year and we plan to at least double that this year. This weekend brought us a little closer toward realizing that goal”.

The WNA Wrestling Coach plans on hosting several girls specific wrestling clinics as well as other wrestling camps and events at the school because, “I’m committed to building wrestling at WNA, no doubt, but I am also fiercely dedicated to building girls wrestling and doing whatever we can do to contribute to what is an already rich tradition of tough wrestling coming from this county”.