Rankings »

Here’s your chance to test your skills against the Lighthouse rankers.  Submit your top 25 Section XI and Section VIII tournament rankings by September 15th, 2010.  The winner will receive a $50 cash prize.

Contest Rules

• Must rank top 25 tournament teams for each in section VIII and XI.  The top 25 rank should only have teams of the same section identified.  Ranking less than 25 teams in each section disqualifies the entry.
• Only residents of Section XI and Section VIII are eligible to compete.
• Must include your name and address with the submission and allow your name to be published along with your ranking.
• All submissions will be published on the Lighthouse site with the entrants first and last name.
• Submissions compete against the Lighthouse pre-season rankings.  You must beat the Lighthouse ranking to win.
• Submissions are scored against the final team standings in Section XI and Section VIII for 2011. 
• One point is awarded when a team in your rank is 5 or less positions away from the final team standing in the 2011 section championships.
• In the event of a tie, whoever has the most 4 or less, then 3 or less, then 2 or less, then 1 or less, then 0 positions away from the final standing wins.  If still tied, the tied entries are put in a hat and randomly picked.   For example, if A and B are tied with 10 less than 5 positions away and if A has 9 less than 4 positions away and B has 8 less than 4 positions away, then A wins.  If not, this continues until a winner is identified.
• Submissions must be received by midnight on September 15th 2010.
• Send submissions to webmaster[at]lighthousewrestling[dot]com
• Winner will be announced on April 15th 2011.

Editorial »

Going into our third season at Lighthouse Wrestling, I’m quite excited for the upcoming year.  Since the end of the first season, I’ve been busy working to have additional contributors to the site.  It’s not easy.  To put it succinctly, few contributors will write for the love of it, even less will continue for any length of time.   However, I’m happy to say that a number of good people have offered to contribute in 2010/2011, and I’m hopeful they will deliver. Read the full story »

CHSAA, NYS, News »

Those of you who have followed my writings from local message board icon (kidding, of course) to freelance wrestling journalist know that I have always had a special place in my heart for the New York State Catholic League. It was the place of origin of my now well established affinity for the world’s oldest and greatest sport (to borrow from one of my literary heroes, Mike Chapman). Therefore, it is no understatement to say that I take immense pride and satisfaction when learning that one of its student-athletes has “done good”. For this reason, last night took on great significance to me when I was informed that the league’s brightest star, 3x NYS finalist/2009 NYS DI Champion, Grant Greene, of St. Anthony’s High School, had given a verbal commitment to compete for Coach Drew Pariano as a part of the class of 2015 at Northwestern University. Greene, who will be named to the top-10 seniors list when the New York installment of the Wrestling-49 series is released at a future date, becomes the first rising senior from the recruiting class of 2011 to formally announce his intentions to continue his academic and athletic pursuits at the Evanston, IL based institution of higher learning. Read the full story »