Mekhi
Bradley and his coach, Alex Osborn, are cheered in the atrium of Mansfield
Senior High/Mansfield Middle School with the Tyger marching band in the
background. For the
second time in eight days a wrestler from Mansfield Senior High/Mansfield
Middle School has been sent to state competition in grand style.
Middle
school students lined their hallways Friday afternoon to cheer eighth-grader
Mekhi Bradley who will wrestle this weekend in the Ohio Junior High state
tournament. Sanctioned by the Ohio Athletic Committee, the tournament will be
at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown.
Bradley, who
wrestles at 205 pounds, has a record of 33-0 with 31 pins. He is the Ohio
Cardinal Conference middle school champion, and OAC district champion and state
qualifier.
The son of Tyger head football coach Chioke Bradley, he also is on the middle school A’s and B’s honor roll.
On March 7
Senior High students, staff and the band gave junior Josh Lyons a rousing
sendoff to the Ohio High School Athletic Association state wrestling tournament
in Columbus.