Triple Winners abound at 4 events

Jack Brown of Haydon Bridge had a week-end to savour when he attended three events and won six weights. He began quietly enough at Dalston Show with a single win; doubled that success at Slaley Show later that afternoon; and on the Sunday against major opposition won all three men's weights at Forestburngate. Weighing in at under 12 stones, he stands well clear of six foot, with long bones for leverage and sinewy strength to attack and defend.

Three female wrestlers each had triple wins: Gemma Coulthard ruled the roost at Appleby and Dalston before jetting off to Cyprus; Anna Hindmarsh did the same at Slaley and Forestburngate; and Rosie Hodgson still battling against the lads in the Under 12 Years was only beaten in the final at Appleby by Joe Charnley. The three girls all come from farming families and know how to cowp a sheep and hoist a bale. Anna and Rosie live more than a hundred miles apart in remarkably similar circumstances in remote Pennine valleys: Anna in Coquetdale and Rosie in Dentdale. Despite the distances involved the two families are the best followers of all the wrestling action.

Zak Singleton of Rothbury also had three wins. His success in his Under 18s age category is scarcely surprising as he stands at six foot five, weighs 17 stones, has a good wrestling brain, and finishes falls with a forward roll. In the men's All Weights he is pushed harder, but still managed to hipe Joe Threlfall before the Preston wrestler took the next two with powerful twists over the knee, and came out on top of the pile at Slaley.

 

 

In my notebook recording scores of bouts last week, there are only two asterisks for falls that caught my eye as being in a class beyond excellent: for Ryan Armstrong's inside hipe that finished off Harry Wharton in the 11½ stones at Appleby; and for Cade Whitfield's hank of Joe Hale in the deciding fall of the Under 21s at Forestburngate.

 

 

Finally, a tribute to Jason Davidson, not only the Rothbury coach, but their bus driver, the groundsman who prepared the ring at Forestburngate, the referee who kept the action going, and father of Emily and Thomas who were both winners this week.

 

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