Glen Cove High School was the site of the third annual holiday wrestling tournament on Thursday, December 28th. Nine teams from around Nassau County and Mount Saint Michael from the Bronx traveled to Glen Cove for the ten team tournament. Glen Cove took second place honors with a tough Garden City team taking first place. Farmingdale High School won third place.

Twelve different Glen Cove wrestlers won medals in the tournament. Nick Discala and Jeff Oglesby both took 6th place in their weight classes. Junior Jason Lee continues to wrestle well taking 5th place. Junior Matt Hurwitz beat a tough James Dreyfuss from Roslyn to advance to the semi-finals. Matt lost there to Chris Parris from Farmingdale who is ranked 1st in Nassau County at 189 lbs. Matt wrestled well to take 4th place. Senior Dave Paskoff continued his winning ways also taking 4th place. Mike Smith missed out on the finals by one point, but would not be denied taking 3rd place honors.

Six other Glen Cove wrestlers made the finals. For three wrestlers, Pete Loidice, Jose Martinez and Marcus Bianconi, it was their first trip to the finals of a multi-team tournament. All three came up short in the championship round, but with all three wrestlers returning next year for their senior year, the future looks bright.

Jeff Rudloff also made the finals, but lost a close decision to Jose Ocasio from Mount Saint Michael.

Glen Cove crowned two champions with Charles McCullough and Steve Sarmiento. Charles won his second consecutive tournament pinning his opponents in the semi-finals and in the finals. Senior Steve Sarmiento won his third straight Glen Cove tournament. He has been crowned champion all three years of the tournament. Only one other wrestler, Ronnie LoFroese of Garden City has made the finals three times.

The Glen Cove wrestlers would like to thank the Glen Cove Booster Club for sponsoring the tournament. They would also like to thank all of the parents, staff and students who helped make this tournament possible. The wrestling squads are coached by Steve Kocienda and Pete Kopecky.

The Big Red Indoor Track and Field team began the holiday vacation with a Friday night meet in Manhattan at the Armory on Dec. 22. The meet began with Rich Tarver running a 6.7 in the invitational 55-meter dash. His time puts him in the top 20 of Nassau County. The boys ran a 4 x 400m relay time of 4:09.5 with Tony Condello leading off (59) followed by Allen Shin (1:08), then Tin Chin (61) and anchored by Miguel Quinones (59). Dan Bellissimo competed in the long jump with a leap of 16'5". The mile medley race went well with Manjit Singh running 1:07 in the 400 followed by Tin Chin (200m - 27), Chris Corbin (200m - 29) and anchored by Mike Biscardi's 2:19 800m run. The team time was 4:24.6.

The girls placed sixth and won medals in the long jump relay. Grace Liang hit 13'9", Akia Dean had a mark of 13' 3.5" and Jasmine Thompson had a jump of 11'7". The same trio came back and earned a bronze medal for the Triple Jump relay. Akia jumped 30'8", Grace jumped 27'6" and Jasmine jumped 28'4".

In the shot put relay Rich Tarver had a mark of 44' 2.5", while Will Ng had a mark of 33'1" and John Mahoney had a mark of 26'4". All the marks were personal bests. Rich's throw immediately places him in the top 5 of Nassau County Class B. The boys and girls ran a 4 x 200m relay to close the evening. The boys' team of Tony Condello (27), Miguel Quinones (27), Joe Kopito (28) and Dan Bellissimo (27) ran a 1:48.7 for a third in their heat. The girls' team of Akia Dean (29), Grace Linag (31), Iesha Brown (33) and Amanda Moretto (29) ran a very fast 2:03.4. The next meet will be the girls' Section VIII Relays on Jan. 12th and the Stanner Games on Jan. 14th at the 168th St. Armory, NYC. The track team is coached by J. Vignolini and S. Gallo.

The Glen Cove Varsity Rifle team has won its last two matches, bringing their record to 3 and 2. These two wins came after a very tough one point loss to Freeport.

Glen Cove has scored 3,297 point in their 5 matches, while their opponents have only scored 3,039 points. Leading the team to its victories are senior captains Anna Glinianska and Malgorzata Kurjanska as well as senior Kamila Lis. New to the team this year is sophomore Yasir Javed who was moved up to varsity after only three weeks into the season. Kamila shot her personal best on Wednesday against Sewanhaka District with a 178. Malgorzata also shot her personal best of 169 against Sewanhaka. Yasir shot his highest score of a 171 at our match against Garden City on Thursday. Anna also shot her highest score at a match with a 176 against Garden City. Sophomore Aubrie Dillon and Dawn Saepia also contributed to the victories. The scores of our matches to date are as follows:

Match 1	Freeport 655	Glen Cove 654
Match 2	Massapequa 656	Glen Cove 640
Match 3	Glen Cove 644	Baldwin 449
Match 4	Glen Cove 684	Sewanhaka 664
Match 5	Glen Cove 675	Garden City 615

The rifle team coach is Richard Bullis