JOHN GLENN PRAISED AS BEST TEAM IN THE STATE
LEWISBORO LEDGER NEWS
The John Jay
wrestling team knew that the Union Endicott Duals would be the
toughest dual meet tournament the program has ever experienced — and the
event, unfortunately, live up to expectations.
Going against the best teams in the state, in what is the unofficial dual
meet state championships, the Indians won one of only four matches at the
tourney, held on Saturday and Sunday in Endicott.
“A great, very humbling experience for all involved. We knew it was going
to be an amazing group of teams from around the state and we were not
disappointed,” said head coach Bill Swertfager. “It exposed some weaknesses
that we are going to correct and hopefully will make us stronger for our own
post-season run.”
The Indians came back on Tuesday to trounce Horace Greeley at home, 77-9, to
improve their record to 16-10.
Just being at the U.E. Duals was a historic accomplishment for John Jay,
which was the first team from Section 1 to ever be invited to the event.
The Indians opened against John Glenn High School from Long Island and
suffered a lopsided 53-4 defeat. John Jay’s only win came from Billy Watterson
at 119 pounds with a major decision. Watterson was the only John Jay wrestler to
finish the tourney unbeaten at 4-0.
John Glenn went on to win the tournament in convincing fashion, winning in
the final easily over the three-time defending champ, Spencerport.
“John Glenn is the best high school wrestling team I have ever seen, let
alone had to compete against,” commented Swertfager. “We won one match
against Glenn and had a couple of close losses, but otherwise we were schooled.
I think we wrestled a little tentatively, which didn’t help the matter.”
John Glenn ended the weekend as the undisputed number-one team in the state.
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