Category Amateur Wrestling

Two-time PIAA champ commits to Penn State

By Guy Cipriano Nazareth’s Tim Darling, right, controls Bald Eagle Area’s Quentin Wright during their 145 pound championship match of the 2006 PIAA Wrestling Championships on Friday, March 11, 2006. Darling won 8-5. Nazareth High School senior 152-pounder Tim Darling…

Henry Lester’s Greco Gamble Pays Off

He’s not wrestling with move any more Area star now world No. 3 in Greco-Roman By Tom Reed Beacon Journal sportswriter Harry Lester took a gamble that stunned many in the collegiate wrestling world four years ago. The Akron native…

TItle IX: Reverse Discrimination?

BY CORY BUCHTA In 1948, a native Hawaiian woman named Patsy Mink got rejected from 20 different American medical schools. The reason? She was a woman. None of the 20 medical schools to which she applied accepted women. Patsy instead…