By Nazario Rodriquez Jr.
Horizon news staff

Olympic scholar Elgin Elwais continued to add feather to his cap by winning anew a gold medal at the just concluded Oceania Wrestling Championships in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Franson Gibbons also showed a lot of guts against an opponent from Australia in the Geco Roman eevent.
Elwais won the in the finals against Shane Parker of Australia in the 55kg Greco match.
"His match was awesome because Australia had a very strong wrestler who came in to wrestle and was very good but Elgin was fierce," playing-coach John Tarkong.
Tarkong said that Elwais’s match "was so exciting because no matter what the Australian did, Elgin countered and eventually picked him up and slammed him a number of times to win both three-minute periods of the match.
"Elgin did not let the Australian score one point on the match," he said.
"Franson did well and even threw one of his opponents during the match but lost after a number of tough matches," Tarkong said.
Gibbons placed 4th in the 66kg while Tarkong also placed 4th in the 96kg weight division.
Tarkong said that he would have probably won two of his matches if it were not for mistakes.
He said he was leading well in both matches against Australia and threw his opponent for three points but lost his match after he tried to throw his opponent and his opponent countered for the win.
"We all had tough matches today especially because of this year will be the beginning of the qualification year for the Olympics and it will be at the World Championships. I think we'll do very well in the upcoming SPG but only if we have good training partners and more competitions and funding support," Tarkong said.
Also doing well was Keitani Graham of Chuuk, FSM who has been training in Palau over the past year and traveled with the team to compete in the Oceania.
"Keitani did well and placed 2nd for the Silver medal as well. He had about 5 matches and beat New Zealand, Australia and Samoa but lost to another Aussie, who is Iranian and used to be the Asian Champion in 1999," Tarkong said.
He said that there were lots of Europeans (Russians and Iranians) who are real good and are now wrestling for Australia and New Zealand.
"We're cutting weight now and will wrestle freestyle on Sunday. Believe it or not but I went from 105 kg down to 96 and made it<" he said.
"Over 20 some pounds. It was tough. The four-day training session in the Philippines really helped as well," he said.