Coach Sly: Congrats to Bulldog grapplers

Coach Sly hasn't written a lot about wrestling this winter, but the UEC River grapping race might turn out to have been the most interesting conference race of all.

You had three quality Tri-Cities teams in the mix right down to the end, but it was the Battlin' Bulldogs that took the prize by virtue of beating Geneva on Friday night in a close dual.

Close, but not quite as tight as the match with STC East was. That one a couple weeks back was a tie, but Batavia won by "criteria" as they say in the biz ... well, that tiebreaker victory ended up loomin' large.

Congrats to the Bulldogs. By the sound of it, those guys are really deserving champs, having withstood a bunch of guys quitting two years in a row, and some tough competition around the area.

Coach Sly is glad to see the (relatively) new coach having some success with Bulldog wrestling.

When coach Arlis left, you had to wonder if the program was going to be able to keep up its high level of success. Well, looks like the answer is yes.

Looking forward to seeing how all our local grapplers fare next in the postseason meets.