03.02.2022 Sports Wrestling: SWR pair earn All-State from ‘blood round’ It’s one of the more grueling aspects of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Wrestling Championships. When a wrestler loses an early-round bout, he drops into...
01.22.2022 Sports Wrestling: SWR repeats as dual-meet champions, defeating John Glenn in D-II finals Sometimes in wrestling, a loss can be a win. Of course, it depends on what kind of loss you’re talking about. Not all losses are equal in terms of...
01.18.2022 Sports Wrestling: Two SWR wrestlers surpass century mark Pain is part of the game. Anyone who knows wrestling knows that. Still, there is pain, and then there is excruciating pain. The tale can now be told. It has...
12.07.2021 Sports New Wildcat Wrestling Center unveiled as SWR seeks to defend county title Joe Condon was understandably skeptical when he first heard about a plan to relocate the Shoreham-Wading River wrestling team’s gym to a new space. For a storied program, the...
03.02.2021 Sports Wrestling: Dream ending for Wildcats, who win county dual meet championship If there was anything the Suffolk County wrestling community learned about the Shoreham-Wading River High School team this season, it’s that you don’t tell those student-athletes they can’t attain...
02.26.2021 Sports Wrestling: Freshman rises to challenge as SWR advances to semifinals Joe Condon did the math. The Shoreham-Wading River High School wrestling coach calculated that his team’s biggest dual meet of the season to date would likely rest on the...
02.05.2021 Sports Strangest of winter sports season now underway Wait, wait, wait … and then wait some more. That’s what life has been like for anxious high-risk winter sports athletes, eager to salvage something of their 2021 high...
03.04.2020 Sports Wrestling: SWR’s Jablonski grabs fifth at state tournament Emerging from a tunnel and into the bright lights of Times Union Center in Albany, with several thousand screaming fans following the action on eight mats, can be mesmerizing....