By Basil Spyridakos, Times Correspondent
Saturday, January 21, 2012
GULFPORT — Palm Harbor University, wrestling with heavy hearts after the recent passing of a team friend, dominated the Pinellas County Athletic Conference Tournament on Saturday.
Logan Kushner, a PHU grad who died Jan. 8 after police say the 19-year-old drowned in a creek after smoking a legal herbal incense, had played football and wrestled, so he was a friend of many on this year’s team.
Coach Brad Sakevich had his team focused after a tumultuous few weeks. “We’ve been through a lot in the last two weeks with the death of Logan Kushner, with the funeral and wrestling last weekend,” Sakevich said. “We placed 14 kids; all of them in the top five. It’s just a testament to how much work the kids put in.”
The Hurricanes positioned six wrestlers in the finals, with four of them taking …
