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Victory and vacation

Kai Vielma will never stop working, and his goals remain intact, but the Connellsville junior feels like a huge weight has been lifted off his shoulders after winning a state wrestling championship on March 7 at the Giant Center in Hershey. The Stanford commit is wrestling without trepidation, ...

Easy work

CANONSBURG — Kai Vielma won his first WPIAL championship last year by fall, but he still had to do some work. The second district title for the Connellsville junior was about as easy as it gets. Vielma and NorwinÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Nathan Klingensmith hardly touched a body part besides shaking hands ...

Triple threat

IRWIN — Belle VernonÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Elijah Brown and ConnellsvilleÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Kai Vielma didn’t run into much trouble in earning their third section championships on Saturday at Norwin High School in the Class 3A Eastern Sectional. Brown won all three bouts by fall for the championship in the 215-pound ...

Falcons fall short of placing in team state tournament

JOHNSTOWN — The team portion of ConnellsvilleÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ wrestling season ended Saturday morning inside 1st Summit Arena at the Cambria County War Memorial following a 33-24 setback to Nazareth in the consolation quarterfinals of the PIAA Class 3A dual meet tournament. The Falcons (19-5) lost ...

Three cheers for sweet revenge

McMURRAY — Connellsville entered the season as one of the favorites to win the WPIAL Class 3A dual meet championship. The Falcons finished third in the state tournament last year and had a healthy lineup returning with three returning state qualifiers, including two medalists, but head ...

Nicely done, Nolan

ConnellsvilleÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Nolan Rice believes he is starting to come into his own as a wrestler during his junior season, which emphasizes the expectations the Falcons’ 127-pounder has for himself considering he is a two-time state qualifier and one-time medalist. Rice, who was eighth in the PIAA ...