Tim Cope has two legs in his grasp.

Kubasaki’s Tim Cope snarls Kadena’s Christian Luckey in a leg lace. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)

Kadena’s boys wrestling team has plied its skills with apparent ease this season.

But the Panthers’ undefeated records in both dual-meet and individual-freestyle events are the result of rigorous and repetitive work in the practice room, senior 215-pounder Braylon Stephens says.

“Our practices are hard and tiring. They (coaches) push us to the limit,” said Stephens, who transferred from Matthew C. Perry to Kadena over the summer and has a spotless record entering the Far East tournament for boys.

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