Three Maine pullers made the trip to Vermont yesterday for the IAF Mid-Winter Warm-Up. Congrats to Mark Vieira for winning the Right 154-lb class, defeating long-time rivals Tim Sears and Kris Mikels. Maine’s John Cervantes didn’t make weight therefore had to pull the Right 220-lb class, but still made a good showing with a 3rd-place [...]
John Cervantes, Mark Vieira, Kurt Howgate, and Eric Guevin all made the trek Sunday to North Providence, RI for the RI State Championships. What was expected to be a ’small’ tourney ended up being well attended with lots of great matches. Mark Vieira finished undefeated in the Right Open 0-176 class, Eric Guevin finished in [...]
It was a long but fun day, with five members of Team Maine competing. Mark Viera pulled his ass off in the 4-way 154-lb super-match. Although he did not take first, he had some wars with rivals Tim Sears and Kris Mikels. Props to Mark for being the first ever Mainer to be in a [...]
First off, a big shout-out to Team Maine’s Greg Curatola who turned 86 on Friday… sorry I missed your party. I heard it was a barn-burner.
Unfortunately, no-one from Maine pulled on Saturday at the 2009 Rhode Island State Championships. We are all gearing up for the Connecticut State Championships being held January 16, [...]
Eric Guevin and I make the trek to this year’s Fall Classic and we did not go home empty-handed! Eric went undefeated/untested all day, winning the Left and Right Supers and both Overalls. Eric also won the award for the Most-Diet-Soda-In-One-Day. He also won the award for most potential nicknames! [...]
Back on Oct 3, 2009, the NH State Championships were held once again at the Paradise Beach Club at Weirs Beach, Laconia, NH. This is always a fun tourney for us Mainers given its close location and it’s a charity event benefiting the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Turnout was somewhat light this year but nonetheless there were [...]