Weekend Rewind

   Chestnut Ridge and Berlin thoroughly dominated the competition at the first Mountaineer Duals on Saturday, with the champion Lions outscoring five opponents 327-31, and Berlin totalling a margin of 330-51 in its five wins.
   The two teams had previously agreed not to wrestle in a placement match after having wrestled in a dual meet on Thursday night. Ridge won that one, 43-19, which gave it the right to go for Saturday's team title, while Berlin settled for the third place match.
   This is Sunday, which means my wrapup in the Gazette hasn't appeared yet, but please do so to review all the bout-by-bout results from Chestnut Ridge and HOPE for Hyndman, who went 1-4 to finish eighth.
   Individually, the local highlight was Hornet senior Richard Moskey collecting his 100th career win, which I have also chronicalled for Monday's Gazette.
  
  In other local action, Bedford beat Claysburg easily, and there weren't any real surprises to be by looking at the box score.
  With the wrestling over for this weekend, it's time to look ahead to next weekend and the 25th annual Thomas Tournament at Bedford. One of the great local events is a little better this season with the additions of Meyersdale and South Fayette, both of whom have some outstanding individual talent.
   Keep it here at Spring Into Sports and in the Gazette for information all week long. And on Friday, whether you plan on attending the event or not, I encourage all of you to pick up a copy of the Gazette for our annual preview. I won't divulge specifics on stories for the edition here, but I can tell you that as always, every former Thomas Tournament champion is named, every state placewinner that competed at the Thomas is listed, and each placewinner in all 14 weight classes last year is named on our comprehensive stats page.
  You can also find tournament seedings and predictions from both myself and colleague Sam Shuss, who writes for me and is also the play-by-play voice for high school sports in Bedford County on Star 100.9 FM.

  I haven't ironed out a full gameplan for the Thomas Tournament, but by the time Thursday's seeding meeting rolls around, I should have it figured out. I would like to live chat, though I am guessing right now that I will only do so in a limited capacity. I am also hoping to videotape several bouts, including wrestlers that are outside of my coverage area, and post them as soon as I can afterward. And I will be posting updated results here at Spring Into Sports.