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18th ANNUAL
BRENDAN GRANT MEMORIAL WRESTLING TOURNAMENT
Saturday, 5 January 2019 in Belmont, Massachusetts
The eighteenth Annual Brendan Grant Memorial Wrestling Tournament was once
again a success, held at Belmont High School on its traditional calendar
date of the first Saturday in January.
Unlike the last several
years, this year the weather was more cooperative with rain that made it a
great day to stay indoors. Further, this was the first year using the new
on-line Kap scoring program from the website “arena.flowrestling.org”, and
this made the entire day move along much more efficiently. Overall, the
Tournament proceeded smoothly throughout the day using three mats for 13
teams.
By the end of the tournament, the Dedham squad came out on
top as the first place team winner (similar to last year), edging-out East
Providence. The final team standings were:
#1 Dedham MA (202.0)
#2 East Providence RI (144.0)
#3 Masconomet MA (121.0)
#4 Needham MA
(119.0)
#5 Newton North MA (112.0)
#6 Arlington MA (108.0)
#7
Woburn MA (96.0)
#8 Catholic Memorial MA (88.0)
#9 Belmont MA (64.0)
#10 Alvirne NH (58.0)
#11 Concord-Carlisle MA (57.0)
#12Lexington MA
(18.0)
#13 Scituate MA (11.5)
The team
results for 2018 and the previous 15 years are also summarized on a one
page handout. Further, all the
participating teams since 2003 are compiled alphabetically and also
by rank based on their overall cumulative score per times at the
tournament.
Each year at the
conclusion of the tournament all coaches vote for the one wrestler who
stands above all others as the Tournament’s most outstanding wrestler.
This year’s honor and winner of the “Warren Farrell Outstanding Wrestling
Award” was 195 lb. wrestler Joey Perkins from Masconomet in Boxford, MA.
Several years ago the tournament’s outstanding wrestler award was
renamed the “Warren Farrell Outstanding Wrestling Award” in honor of
Belmont resident Warren Farrell who had a key role in founding the
tournament in 1982 when his oldest son Stephen was Captain of the Belmont
squad, winner of the Outstanding Wrestler Award at the inaugural
tournament, and who later would be Captain of the Harvard wrestling squad
and an Ivy League Champion. Several years later another of Warren’s sons,
Richard, followed in his older brother's footsteps as another wrestling
standout.
The top placing wrestlers in each weight class and other results from the
2019 tournament can be downloaded from the website
“arena.flowrestling.org”, and searching for the “Brendan Grant
Tournament”, or from the following link:
http://arena.flowrestling.org/event/3e659509-8c11-8f1b-d18b-528a4b35cf5b.
This particular high school wrestling tournament was first held in
January 1982, and was renamed in 2002 as a tribute to Brendan Grant who
was a member of the wrestling team for four years and a senior captain in
the 1999-2000 season. Thus, while this is the 18th Annual tournament named
after Brendan, overall it is the 38th Annual Belmont Wrestling Tournament.
This event is hosted annually by the Friends of Belmont Wrestling
in conjunction with Belmont High School, and it is their single annual
fundraising event. A lot of thanks go all around for the numerous
volunteers under the direction of Friends of Belmont Wrestling, and the
dedicated staff of Belmont High School led by BHS Athletic Director Jim
Davis.
Click here for the full story of last year's 2018 tournament.
Next year’s tournament is tentatively scheduled for the first Saturday in
January, and we hope you can join us!
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