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Wily Wrestler Moves Faster Than Match By Chuck Slater
the state title at 120 pounds, in an upset, defeating the top seed in the final. Now he’s hoping to As any athlete will tell you, the repeat at 126 pounds in a sport more you play a sport, the easier it that has become second nature to gets. Things become instinctive. him. Difficult moves become routine. “He’s so experienced, the sport Surprises are fewer. slows down for him,” said Ossining So it is with Alex Delacruz, coach Larry McRae. “He’s moving as the Ossining High senior faster than the match.” was getting ready to pin down SLATER’S Delacruz moved quickly a second straight state wrestling through the regular season, championship in Albany the first too. After losing twice at the weekend in March. Delacruz’s tough Eastern States early in the season, he dad and older brother, both named Juan, went undefeated the rest of the way. In wrestled with distinction in high school. the Division 1 championships (the state A very young Alex decided he would be a qualifier), he swept through his 126-pound competitive wrestler. matches, winning a 15-5 semifinal, then “My dad used to take me to Juan’s a 4-2 final. He broke the school record matches from the early days, and often I’d for career victories in the semifinal, then fool around at practices,” he said. “When I added win No. 172 in the final. was 6, I said, ‘This is my sport.’ ” Delacruz so loves the sport, he wrestles He has been at it ever since, starting with year-round. (That’s “one reason he’s so Ossining Youth Wrestling, and a year ago won
good,” said McRae, who put a seventhgrade Alex on his junior varsity.) “I like that it’s just man-on-man,” the senior said. “I’m not a big fan of team sports. Here, it’s all you; if you lose, you have only yourself to blame.” To read the rest of this article and all Slater’s Slants in their entirety, go to news.townlink.com.
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PHOTO COURTESY ALEX DELACRUZ
In a favorite move named the Blast Double, Alex Delacruz pulls an opponent’s legs out from under him, like a football tackle.