Eight days earlier, Zama watched a 10-point lead evaporate in a two-point defeat at Yokota.
Far East Division I boys basketball finals have definitely been fit to put grey hair on Nile C. Kinnick coach Robert Stovall.
If it wasn’t an injury, it was an illness. And another. And another. Some wrestlers sidelined for weeks at a time.
On a day in which multiple Far East weight-class champions shined and others were dethroned, American School In Japan snapped a 30-year Far East wrestling Division I title drought.
Hey, all you kids in the military community need to read this. Seriously! So, please put down your iPad, iPhone or other digital device for the next couple of minutes. You’ll survive, and I promise no one will take them.
In another time, Matthew C. Perry might have been viewed by other girls basketball teams as an “automatic W” whenever they took the court with the Samurai.
It’s not so much the teams you’ve already played, but the ones you haven’t seen that can make tournament play a challenge.
That’s the narrative that sometimes follows a wrestler bearing the title “defending Far East champion” onto the mat whenever it comes time for them to compete.
Young soccer players from two Defense Department high schools on Okinawa trained recently with the coaches of Japan’s top-rated professional team
On any given February morning, you might see hundreds of young students – some with parents, or even teachers, in tow – flocking to a nearby high school or university.
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.
It’s a bright afternoon in Okinawa, and Athens E. Pellegrino, the CEO and founder of Military Family Life Publishing LLC, greets me with a warm smile.
Brinn Hardt is still wearing blue and gold. But no longer is the two-time All-Island pitcher throwing for Guam High.
DODEA-Pacific basketball teams would like to have placed higher in their respective brackets. But for the wealth of experience they gained playing in the 7th American School In Japan Kanto Classic, most said they were glad to take part.
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