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Wrestlers test their mettle at tournament

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Wrestlers from several Tampa Bay area schools took part in the Bill Combs JV Invitational wrestling tournament on Jan. 15, at Sunlake High School, 3023 Sunlake Blvd., in Land O’ Lakes. Both female and male wrestlers competed. The tournament is sponsored by Bill Combs, of Brooksville, who is a National Wrestling Hall of Famer and Florida wrestling advocate. The competition is in its third year, and Sergio Matos, Sunlake’s wrestling coach and former student of Combs, is the event’s organizer.

Fourteen-year-old Cole Henderson, from Land O’ Lakes High School, is in the top position while wrestling 14-year-old Garrett Hoss from Tampa’s Jesuit High School. They were competing in the 106-pound weight class. (Christine Holtzman)
Fourteen-year-old Caitlyn Davis, a freshman at Land O’ Lakes High School, left, and her 16-year-old teammate Natalie Hall, do stretches before the wrestling tournament begins. Davis and Hall were among several females competing, often against members of the opposite sex. Wrestling requires athletes to prove themselves, Davis said. ‘It’s a lot of hard work.’
Seventeen-year-old Leo Lopez, from Wiregrass High School in Wesley Chapel, in front, shoots in for the takedown of 14-year-old Austin Black who wrestles for Sunlake High School.

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