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9th ANNUAL
BRENDAN GRANT MEMORIAL WRESTLING TOURNAMENT
Saturday, 9 January 2010 in Belmont, Massachusetts
 The
ninth Annual Brendan Grant Memorial Wrestling Tournament was held at
Belmont High School all day on Saturday 9 January 2010. It was a cold
but sunny day and a good day to be indoors for a high school wrestling
tournament. Once again the efforts of numerous hard-working volunteers
along with a field of strong competitors resulted in another successful
and well-run tournament.
This 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 seasons. Thus, while
this is the 9th Annual tournament named after Brendan, overall it is the
29th Annual Belmont Wrestling Tournament.
The format for the event was similar to previous years, and included the
following sixteen New England area high school teams: Arlington MA,
Belmont MA (host team), Boston College High (Boston, MA), Catholic
Memorial (West Roxbury, MA), Concord/Carlisle MA, East Providence RI,
Hingham MA, Josiah Quincy Upper School (Boston, MA), Lexington MA,
Lincoln/Sudbury MA, Masconomet (Topsfield, MA), Needham MA, Newton North
(Newton, MA), North Quincy (Quincy, MA), Wakefield MA, and Woburn MA.
The history of tournament results from 2003 to 2009 are available for
download here.
 At the end of the day, the first place team winner was the returning
powerhouse squad from Needham with 198.5 team points. Second place went
to new-comer Lincoln-Sudbury with 181.5 points, and placing third was
Masconomet at 160.5 points.
The overall ranking of each team
participating in the tournament since 2003 is available for download
here. The remaining teams finishing 4th through 16th were: #4
Arlington (134.0); #5 Woburn (124.0); #6 Belmont (120.5); #6 Wakefield
(120.5); #8 East Providence (119.0); #9 Catholic Memorial (109.5); #10
Concord-Carlisle (98.0); #11 Josiah Quincy (89.5); #12 Newton North
(71.0); #13 Lexington (66.5); #14 Hingham (53.5); #15 North Quincy
(48.0); #16 BC High (16.0). The overall ranking of each team
participating in the tournament since 2003 is available for download
here.
A summary of the top six 2010 wrestlers in each weight class is
available
for download here.
The host Belmont squad had 12 wrestlers competing in the 14 weight
classes. Two Belmont wrestlers, Tim Hatch at 171 lbs. and Joe Canina at
189 lbs., both finished top in their weight class. This was the second
year in a row that Belmont had a strong team showing, with a 120.5 team
points that almost matched last year’s 130 team points. This year
Belmont finished 6th out of the 16th teams in attendance. The details of
the Belmont wrestlers finishing in the top six slots were: 112 lb slot
Sami Baghdady placed 2nd; 130 lb Oscar Derderian placed 5th; 140 lb Mark
Torosian placed 4th; 171 lb Tim Hatch placed 1st; 189 lb Joe Canina
placed 1st; and 275 lb Brian Conneely placed 3rd.
 In January 2002 the tournament was renamed in honor of Brendan Grant,
BHS class of 2000, and who passed away tragically in June of 2001.
Brendan was a devoted member of the Tournament's host wrestling squad
during all four of his high school years, and during the 1999-2000
season he was one of the team captains that led the squad to one of
their more successful seasons in years.
Overall, this year's January 2010 invitational wrestling tournament was
once again a great success.
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