Donegal has found a familiar face to fill the head coaching vacancy of its wrestling team.John Ambs, a 2001 Donegal graduate and assistant coach for three years, will take over for the departed Dan Bechtold as the Indians' boss."This is always where I've wanted to coach," Ambs said.......

The Lancaster-Lebanon League lost a combined 24 years of wrestling coaching experience when Pequea Valley's Mark Grossmann and Donegal's Dan Bechtold resigned their respective positions.That 24 years is top-heavy in favor of Grossmann, who led the Braves for the past 20 seasons, wh......

At this point in the wrestling season, the means isn't nearly as important as the end.While their performances may not have been things of beauty, the trio of Lancaster County wrestlers who advanced to this morning's semifinal round of the PIAA Class AA Southeast Regional Wrestling......

Brock Suter's future, he hopes, is in welding the big boats at the Naval Shipyards in Philadelphia.It's a trade with which he's become extremely familiar, although most of the welding he's done this year has been in keeping his life together.A senior 140-pounder for ......

Donegal's wrestling team has basically owned the District Three Class AA Section Two tournament that past four years. The Indians won the team crown in 2005 and 2006 before finishing a half- point behind Milton Hershey last year. In its final year as a Class AA team, Donegal went out in st......

It obviously wasn't the outcome that any coach would be pleased about, but after Donegal's 49-20 setback to Delone Catholic in the first round of the District Three Class AA team tournament Tuesday, Indians head coach Dan Bechtold was able to see the big picture."We lost to a ......

While he paced, his mind raced.Donegal senior Nick Herbert knew he'd end up paired with Pequea Valley's Brock Suter, an L-L League Tournament runner-up.Herbert, who said he was disappointed with his early exit at the league championships, put his mind on the task at hand....

The weary look on each coach's face told the story. Lancaster Catholic's Tom Blaszczyk looked like a guy who had pulled a record fish up to the boat, only to see it spit the hook and slip away. Donegal's Dan Bechtold looked a little like the fish — relieved at his escape,......

It was, in short, a backyard brawl to start it all.When Donegal visited Elizabethtown for Thursday's early-season nonleague wrestling match, it marked a contest between defending section champions who are not only expected to wear those crowns again this year but are contenders in next mon......

Manheim Central senior Marcus Zimmerman, who capped his scholastic wrestling career by placing second at heavyweight in last weekend's PIAA Championships, was named the Class AAA Wrestler of the Year by the Lancaster-Lebanon League Coaches' Association during Monday night's L-L all-st......

Sometime down the road, Blake Sweigart may take over the family dairy farm. He may even expand the 400-acre, two-farm, 200-cow operation in the future.Right now, though, he's probably milking all the accolades that came with upholding another family tradition — qualifying for the sta......

For Blake Sweigart, it was the ride(out) of his life.Sweigart, Donegal's senior 135-pounder, maintained control over Bermudian Springs' Devin O'Brien for 30 seconds in the ultimate rideout period for a 1-0 triumph in Thursday's first round of consolations at the PIAA Class ......

Sometimes, it's not the record of the dog in the fight, but the fight in the underdog. Or something like that.Donegal senior Blake Sweigart pulled off one of the bigger upsets in Friday's opening session of the PIAA Class AA Southeast Regional Wrestling Tournament, stopping Elco......