by Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter
    Grundy continued its resurgence on the mats in winning twice last week.
    The Golden Wave had seven wrestlers in the finals and five champions in rolling to the Big Orange Classic title over the weekend at William Byrd High School in Vinton.
    In addition, Grundy had little trouble winning a Southwest District Quad Wednesday, routing Graham, Tazewell and Marion in action at Riverview Elementary-Middle School.
   At William Byrd, Grundy's champions included freshmen Sean Vandyke (103 pounds) and Jeremy Hurley (112), sophomore Ethan Owens (130) and seniors Josh McCowan (152) and Josh Lee (189). Freshman Tanner McClanahan (160) and senior Morgan Owens (215) reached the championship finals.
    Grundy finished 72 points in front of second-place Franklin County (268-196) in the final team standings and had 12 wrestlers place, including 11 who placed third or higher.
    Derek Anderson (119), Jon Dotson (135), Brandon Hankins (140) and Kaleb Smith (145) all reached the championship semifinals and wrestled back to place third. Freshman Cody Rife (125) lost in the first round, but battled his way back to place sixth.

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by Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter
    For three quarters Grundy struggled to score.
    In the fourth quarter, scoring was the least of Grundy's problems.
    The Golden Wave scored an incredible 44 points in the fourth period and still barely got by Graham, 77-75, in Southwest District action Friday night at Graham Middle School in Bluefield.
    The final seconds were even wilder than the rest of the final quarter. Shawn Moore scored twice in the final 30 seconds, tying the score at 73-73, and then giving Grundy a 75-73 lead. A Wave player was whistled for a technical foul for knocking the ball away after Moore's second bucket. Grundy had received a warning earlier for the same infraction.
    J.D. Hunter hit both technical free throws to tie the score at 75-75 with 8.3 seconds remaining. A Graham player called a timeout on the ensuing inbounds try, but the G-Men were out of timeouts, and that resulted in a technical foul on the Graham bench.
    Bobby Peck hit one technical free throw to give Grundy the lead, Cody Billiter added one free throw with 5.7 seconds remaining to make it 77-75, and Graham missed a three-point try at the buzzer to cap a wild, wild second half.

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