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WrestlingYou are in: Cumbria > Sport > Wrestling > Cumberland Wrestling 31st October  Scott Brocklebank and Craig Ridley Cumberland Wrestling 31st OctoberRoger Robson A personal view of the sport from Roger Robson. British Summer Time was on its last legs as Buttermere Show when Richard Fox ended the Grass Season with a flourish by hanking John Harrington in style to win the All Weights and gain some revenge for his first round defeat at Harrington’s hands in the 12½ stones. As has often been the case this season, their bouts were of the highest quality, and all finely poised as to who would win.  Joe Thompson (l) and Jack Brown (r) Youth, though, was once more the keynote of the wrestling. The postponed Under 15 Years Championship drew a quality field from all round the North of England. In the semi-final Craig Ridley from Slaggyford, who trains at Carlisle showed his credentials when he felled the excellent Stuart Mason of Milnthorpe Academy with the cleverest of wrestling. For the first, he came in close to his bigger opponent and clamped his legs with a right leg back-heel from which there was no escape. The second was even more spectacular with a last second cross-buttock inches from the ground which put me in mind of the great Ted Dunglinson in the fifties when he was still a middleweight. Scott Brocklebank had reason to fear Craig Ridley when they met in the final, as Ridley has beaten him a few times this season, but Brocklebank had his strategy and the ammunition to deliver it. He never gave Ridley an inch of space to work with and used his power to control the bout. With a typical Brocklebank chip he rushed Ridley forward off his hip for the first fall, and then he used an outside-hipe to set his opponent up and repeated the medicine a second time.  Bob Benn gives Scott with his trophies Thirteen year old Scott Brocklebank is a pupil at the Queen Elizabeth School. Kirkby Lonsdale and does his wrestling training at Kendal Academy. Just to show that his win was no fluke, he did the same again in the Under 18 Years, and walked away with a tankard that acknowledged him as the best wrestler of the day. Results:Buttermere ShowUnder 12 Years 1, J Hayhurst; 2, R Benn. Under 15 Years World Championship 1, S Brocklebank; 2, C Ridley; 3, S Mason. Under 18 Years 1, S Brocklebank; 2, W Hayhurst; 3, C Ridley. 12½st 1, John Harrington; 2, J Thompson; 3, J Brown. All Weights 1, R Fox; 2, John Harrington; 3, S Brocklebank. Dates:Wed 7th November: 7.45pm Carlisle Wrestling Club Training Night at Currock House Wed 14th November: 7.45pm First Boys Points Night, Carlisle Wrestling Club Sat 8th December: The Academy Shield will be hosted by the Rothbury Academy at the Alnwick Sports Centre. last updated: 06/11/07 You are in: Cumbria > Sport > Wrestling > Cumberland Wrestling 31st October |
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