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Kinnick’s Ian Flynn sends ASIJ’s Natalie Bonsi to the mat at 107 pounds.

Kinnick's Ian Flynn sends ASIJ's Natalie Bonsi to the mat at 107 pounds. (Cynthia Abel/Special to Stripes)

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan – All season, coach Stan Hovell had pined for his boys and girls teams to come away with a title sweep in a major in-season wrestling tournament.

His Nile C. Kinnick teams swept all three titles on their home mats Saturday in the Kanto Plain and Mainland Japan boys tournaments and the combined girls tournament.

The Red Devils could not have picked a better time to achieve that, with the DODEA-Pacific Far East tournaments just around the corner.

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