HERSHEY - It was pretty much a perfect morning for area wrestlers Thursday at the PIAA Class AA state wrestling championships.
Then came High Noon.
Shamokin's Brandon Pesarchick, Josh Lahr and Derek Shingara, and Line Mountain's Zain Retherford and Adam Kritzer all won their first-round bouts, but Shamokin 285-pounder Wes Tillett, one of the favorites in that class, was unexpectedly pinned at about the time the clock moved to noon.
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SELINSGROVE - The racing season will kick off Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20, at Selinsgrove Speedway with the Insinger Performance Products RoC Icebreaker III Weekend. In case of inclement weather, Sunday, March 21, has been reserved as a rain date.
"There are many people really looking forward to this weekend of racing," said RoC Administrative Director Andrew Harpell from his office in Binghamton, N.Y. "And the best news of all is there is absolutely no snow on the ground at the Selinsgrove Speedway, so we're ready to go racing."
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After repeated attempts to open the 2010 racing season, Lincoln and Hagerstown Speedways are hoping to open their respective gates Saturday afternoon, with both facilities implementing a Sunday afternoon raindate if needed.
Abbottstown's Lincoln Speedway will host the "Icebreaker 30" for the 410 sprint cars, along with the 358 sprinters. Gates open at noon, and racing begins at 2 p.m. It should be interesting to see how the 410 teams react to the new mandated Goodyear tires after many seasons running on Hoosier racing tires. Lincoln's winningest driver, Fred Rahmer, is currently running with the World of Outlaws Series in Texas, gaining valuable track time to adjust to the new tire before heading back east for the Williams Grove opener next Friday night.
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We're not in District 4 anymore.
Stepping out of the area brings with it opportunities for our area teams, but a loss at this point is a season ender.
The first round of the PIAA state playoffs begins Friday with Mount Carmel taking on Tamaqua at Pottsville's Martz Hall at 6 p.m.
Saturday brings two more District 11 foes for our area teams with Nativity travelling to Shamokin Area High School to face Lourdes, and Shamokin getting on the bus to Parkland to play Allentown Central Catholic. Both games start at 3 p.m.
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Shamokin Area coach Todd Hockenbroch has four wrestlers headed to Hershey for the PIAA Class AA State Wrestling Championships, three of whom are making return trips and a fourth who has 115 career varsity bouts. Together, Brandon Pesarchick, Josh Lahr, Derek Shingara and Wes Tillett have wrestled more than 500 career varsity bouts.
Line Mountain coach Mike Martz has two wrestlers going to Hershey, one a freshman, albeit a very, very good one, and the other a sophomore, also a first time state qualifier. Zain Retherford and Adam Kritzer have a combined total of 97 career varsity bouts.
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