Nazareth Sports Weekly Update

By: Andy Weaver

Over the Christmas-New Years Weekend Nazareth Sports were partipating in Holiday Tournaments. The Boys Basketball team took part in the Honesdale High School Tournament while the Girls Basketball team were up in Bangor for the Bangor Christmas Tournament. Also the Wrestling team were over at Liberty High School on Saturday and Sunday for the Bethlehem Holiday Classic. Let's begin the recap with the Boys Basketball team up in the Honesdale Tournament on Thursday when they played Wallenpaupack in the 1st Round and got a 62-51 win and then moved to the championship round where they played 8-0 Honesdale Saturday Night and the Blue Eagles gave Honesdale their 1st loss of the season with a 68-62 Overtime Win! The Girls Basketball Team played Friday night against Warren Hills in the 1st round of the Bangor Tournament and got a 44-21 win and advanced to Saturday's Championship where they played Bangor and beat Bangor 49-35 and Lauren Kresge got Tournament MVP and Chelsea Gary got all Tournament Team! The Girls Basketball team will enter 2014 6-2 and the Boys Basketball Team 4-4. The Blue Eagles Wrestling Team received 2nd place in the Bethlehem Holiday Tournament over the weekend and Sage Karam who is the Indy Firestone champ got a championship in this weekend's wrestling Tournament and Chase Zemenek wins too!! Nic Sevi got 1st place and Brandon Lance got 2nd place! This Thursday January 2 the Wrestling Team will host Central Catholic at 7:30pm. On Friday January 3 the Boys Basketball team will play just their 2nd home game of the season when Dieruff comes for a 7pm game and the Girls Basketball Team will Travel to Dieruff Friday at 7pm. On Saturday January 4th the Boys Basketball team will host Catasaqua at 2pm while the Girls Basketball team will be at Pocono Mountain East at 2pm! On Tuesday January 7 the Girls Basketball team will host Emmaus at 7pm while the Boys will travel to Emmaus. On Wednesday January 8 the Nazareth Wrestling team will have probably the biggest match in the state when they travel to Bethlehem Catholic at 7:30pm! For up to the minute updates, check out www.nazarethsports.net!