Moment: Richmond Gets Pin to Win
March 27, 2020
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Three matches remained in the Division 3 Wrestling Final on Feb. 28, 2015, and Dundee led 25-12 with a third-straight championship nearly in grasp.
But after his Richmond teammates Adam Boyd and Roy Costello fought back to pull their team within four points of the lead with only his 112-pound match left, senior Conor Behem found himself with an all-or-nothing title-deciding opportunity.
Behem’s pin in 1 minute, 7 seconds, gave Richmond a 27-25 win over Dundee and its first championship since 2012 – and after Richmond had fallen to Dundee in the Finals both of the previous two seasons.
Oh, and Behem finished off the victory despite wrestling with tears to a knee ligament and meniscus.
“I kind of broke down emotionally,” Behem said of the immediate aftermath. “It felt so good, words can’t even describe it.”
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Performance of the Week: Three Rivers' Louis Smith
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Smith won the championship at 175 pounds at the prestigious Grappler Gold Invitational, defeating Beaverton’s Eli Roe 8-5 in the title match. Roe is the reigning Division 4 Individual Finals champion at 157 pounds, and Smith is coming back this winter after finishing fifth in Division 2 at 175.
After also pinning his first two opponents at the GGI, Smith is 5-0 this winter with four falls. He helped Three Rivers reach the Division 2 Team Semifinals last season in finishing 45-8, and will continue his career next season at Lake Erie College in Ohio. Smith also played baseball previously before turning his full focus to wrestling.
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