Raghunandan wins another county title
Photo credit: James Escher | Mark Raghunandan of Long Beach, top, battles Anthony Boccasini of MacArthur in a Nassau County varsity wrestling Division I 113 pound semifinal match at Mack Sports Complex, located on the campus of Hofstra University. Raghunandan won the match by decision 5-3. (Feb. 12, 2012)
Nassau Division I wrestling championships
2012 wrestling county champions and state qualifiers
Suffolk Division I wrestling championships
Long Beach senior Mark Raghunandan had put on a wrestling clinic for 5:50, carrying an 8-2 lead over Bellmore JFK's Robert Person with 10 seconds left in the 113-pound Nassau Division I final. Then Person, a defending county champion, slammed Raghunandan to his back to score a two-point takedown and three back points.
But Raghunandan squirmed his way out of danger and held on, 8-7, to win...
