Leading off today: Fresh off a championship in its own annual wrestling tournament, Spencerport goes into tomorrow's Union-Endicott Duals as the top seed in the state's most competitive annual wrestling tournament.
The Rangers won the 2008 championship with a 33-14 victory over Fulton in the final to all but sew up their fifth New York State Sportswriters Association championship in eight seasons.
Spencerport and Phoenix have first-round byes. Monroe-Woodbury and Amsterdam round out the top four seeds for the 14-team event, which begins at 8:30 a.m. (See: Complete brackets)
"You look at these teams, and we're just stressing to our guys to wrestle hard for six minutes," fourth-year U-E coach John Giacche told The Press & Sun-Bulletin. "It's an exciting lineup of teams. We could wrestle very well and have a rough day. You knock off one of these teams and it makes your day."
More wrestling: Fredonia 96-pounder Carlene Sluberski became the first female champion in the 43-year history of Spencerport's Teike/Bernabi Invitational this week. Six other titles were won by defending state champions: Ian Paddock (Warsaw, 135), Zach Clemente (LaSalle, 145), Ryan Leblanc (Morrisville-Eaton, 160), Austin Meys (Shenendehowa, 171), Paul Glover (Spencerport, 215) and Ken Altarac (LaSalle, heavyweight).
Meys, by the way, says he'll stay at 189 for the season
