Video: 2009 New England championships

NEW HAVEN, March 7, 2009 – His own coach called him a diamond in the rough. On Saturday night, St. Bernard’s Lucas Bowman was beaming after becoming the only Connecticut wrestler to win a New England championship.

Bowman, the Class S and State Open champion, hit a reversal with 42 seconds left in the third period and made it stand up in a 4-2 victory over Travis Spencer of Belfast, Maine in the championship match at 189 pounds. “I’m so proud of him,” St. Bernard’s coach Kirk Jenkins said. “He busted his tail all year.”

Coverage from Connecticut Wrestling Online

2009 New England championships
At New Haven
Team results – 1. Timberlane NH 110, 2. Cranston West RI 91½, 3. Cumberland RI 58, 4. Lowell, MA 56, 5. Concord NH 55, 6. Danbury 47, 7. Massabesic ME 46, 8. Greater Lawrence MA 44, 9. Framingham MA 37½, 10. Burlington MA, Pinkerton MA 37
Championship finals
103: Final: Shaidai Lariviere (Cumberland RI) dec. Zach Bridson (Timberlane NH) 8-2
112: Final: Corey Melo (New Bedford MA) dec. Matt Buco (Greater Lawrence MA), 3-2
119: Final: Miguel Guzman (Greater Lawrence MA) dec. Charlie Costanzo (Danbury), 5-1
125: Final: Mike Meyers (Warwick Vets RI) dec. Ryan Toussaint (Deering ME) 10-0
130: Final: Alex Hayek (East Greenwich RI) dec. Nick O’Connell (Cranston West RI), 5-4
135: Final: Shawn Giblin (Cranston West RI) pin Issac Melo (Somerset MA), 3:37
140: Final: Dan Telhada (Franklin MA) dec. Peter Gilman (Massabesic ME), 6-3
145: Final: Victor DeJesus (Lowell) dec. Joey Eon (Massabesic ME), 9-1
152: Final: Cody Byrd (Londonderry NH) dec. Andrew Ford (Bethel), 5-3
160: Final: Isaiah Williams (Haverhill MA) dec. Nick Bedard (Lowell MA), 11-2
171: Final: Mike Wrin (Algonquin MA) dec. Tim Vollaro (Somers), 5-3
189: Final: Lucas Bowman (St. Bernard) dec. Travis Spencer (Belfast ME), 4-2
215:Final: Mike Grilakis (Nashua South NH) dec. Ricky Caruso (Waltham MA), 9-5
275: Final: Dan Herrick (Concord NH) win by forfeit over Brian Nicol (Timberlane NH), injury
Outstanding wrestler: Shawn Giblin, Cranston West RI (135)
Most outstanding final: 189 pounds, Bowman vs. Spencer

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