From her eyes

Editor’s note: St. Bede senior Annie Dumyahn provides an insight through a wrestler’s eyes on the regional wrestling tournament at Coal City, Saturday. Dumyahn placed third at 112 pounds and was one of four Bedan wrestlers to advance to sectional at Plano.

COAL CITY — At around 6 a.m. last Saturday, St. Bede Academy went to Coal City’s regional tournament with 10 wrestlers. After weighing in, the regional started with two of the Academy’s own wrestlers, T.J. and Annie Dumyahn. Annie pinned her opponent in the third period and went on to win third place in her weight class after losing to her next opponent. T.J. lost both her second and third matches and did not place in her weight class, along with Brad Heinrich, David Young and Jordan Shaw.

In the heavier weight classes, however, the Bruins met with great success. At 160, Daniel Rucinski surprised everyone on the team by taking a second place in his weight bracket after winning two matches out of the three. Another Daniel, Daniel Uher, won third place in his weight class after winning his first match and losing his second. Taking first place in the 171 weight class was Michael Mason, who won all three of his matches with relative ease.

These Bruins will continue practicing for the rest of the week and will leave for the sectional tournament on Friday with high hopes of continuing on to state.

Said coach Sean Hobson: “Everyone who believed that they would make it beyond the regionals, did, and that was the most important thing ... they won both mentally and physically.”

This wrestler is sure that at least two people will make it to state, and following Coach Hobson’s advice, is willing to believe that everyone will make it as well.