Wasilla, Service lead at state tourney
Pempek didn't have a match to get to -- his season ended just before Christmas due to a string of concussions, some of them caused by a car accident 18 months ago. But he's still part of the team and was determined to not let an accident on a snowy highway keep him from the state tournament.
And so after he was taken by ambulance to Providence Alaska Medical Center, where doctors operated on a broken nose, Pempek got to Bartlett around 6:30 Friday night, just in time to watch his best friend, Abe Fox, win a semifinal match at 120 pounds.
"He's had a streak of bad luck," Fox said.
Fox hopes his own luck is a little better when he goes for his second straight state title when finals begin tonight at 5:15. He'll face a familiar opponent in Kodiak's Francis Llorente. Fox beat Llorente in overtime in last weekend's Railbelt Conference final.
Fox was one of nine Wasilla wrestlers to reach Friday's semifinals. Service, last season's runner up, advanced 10.
Wasilla and Service were tied for first place in the team standings at the start of the semifinals, but Service won nine semifinal matches to claim a 223.52-148.53 lead going into today's action, which begins at 9 a.m. with consolation rounds.
"We've been back and forth all year," Wasilla coach Shawn Hayes said of the rivalry with Service.
The first semifinal victory for Service went to Alex Nanez in the 113-pound division. As soon as Nanez earned a 16-1 technical fall over South's Nick Ottum, he headed to the mezzanine that surrounds the Bartlett gym so he could run laps.
"I run for about 20 or 30 minutes, just to keep a sweat going," Nanez said. "I lost maybe one pound."
Nanez weighed in a little heavier than he would have liked Friday morning and said he didn't want to risk being overweight at today's weigh-in. A junior, this will be his second straight trip to the finals, but he lost last season so he doesn't want to blow it.
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