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Dan Gray keeps moving alongBy ED NOGAWESTERVILLE — Black River’s Dan Gray is alive and well and still pursuing a 175-pound wrestling championship in the Ohio Class A’ tournament at Otterbein College.Gray showed the stuff that | made him the fourth best wrestler in his class last year by r beating Barry Nolan ofNewcomerstown 13-3. Nolan was undefeated in 18 contests going n into the match.5 Gray now sports a 20-1record. He will face Mike Nesser of Plymouth in second round action today.I'THE BLACK RIVER senior started slowly and was down 3-1* at one time, but was leading 4-3 at the end of the first period.»• In the final two periods GrayIS slapped Nolan around building a 6-3 and then an 8-3 lead on a reversal. Twice he almost pinned Nolan in the last two periods.Black River coach Dave Khoury said it was a typical , Gray match.* “HE ALWAYS seems to■ have a little trouble in the firstperiod, and comes on strong in the last two periods, If he can stay loose, in the beginning he has a good chance against anyone.Richmond Heights is leading the tournament with 15 points and Middlefield CardinalDAN GRAYhas 14. All the 13 wrestlers from the two schools won their contests. Sandusky St. Mary and Columbiana followed with 8'^ points each.There is a strong chance two Firelands Conference 175-pounders will fight it out for the championship.IF GRAY can beat Nesser, who pinned Jim Davis of Mechanicsburg, and New London's Jim Farnsworth can down Jim Kilcoyne of Summit Station Licking Heights Gray and Farnsworth will face each other in the final round.Farnsworth (22-1) surprised Mark Magalski, pinning the Cuyahoga Heights wrestler immediately after he himself was nearly pinned.Gray was the only wrestler to beat Farnsworth this year.KIIJ:OYNE WON his contest in overtime over Ken Frank of Stryker.“You can’t make a mistake down here,’1* Khoury said commenting on the Farnsworth-Megalski bout. “Dan is a smart wrestler, he quickly added.
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Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Sat, Mar 11, 1978
Page 11
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