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the Lockport Legend | February 16, 2017 | 3<br />
Love your<br />
body!<br />
Run into<br />
Challenge Fitness<br />
this February<br />
and start on the<br />
new you!<br />
Lockport Air Force Junior ROTC cadets (left to right) William Candia, Patrick McMahon and<br />
Antonio Lange report out after completing their routine Feb. 6 during the SWSC invite at<br />
Lincoln-Way Central in New Lenox. Adam Jomant/22nd Century Media<br />
Lockport AFJROTC finishes<br />
in third place at SWSC invite<br />
Challenge Fitness is a facility of the Lockport Township Park District<br />
Cadets demonstrate<br />
discipline with<br />
routine at invite<br />
Frank Gogola<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Lincoln-Way Central senior<br />
Vincent Senese was not<br />
going to let his final home<br />
invite go by without putting<br />
on display the skill he had<br />
been working on since his<br />
junior year.<br />
Senese wowed the crowd,<br />
fellow competitors and<br />
judges when he closed out<br />
his armed solo routine by<br />
performing with a rifle and a<br />
saber simultaneously for the<br />
first time ever in competition.<br />
“This being my home<br />
meet, I had to give it my<br />
absolute all because you’re<br />
representing your school<br />
at your own school,” said<br />
Senese, the lone solo or duet<br />
competitor to use a saber.<br />
“You have to bring your<br />
best. That’s what I intended<br />
on doing.”<br />
His performance was one<br />
of two event victories for<br />
Central, which hosted the<br />
event and earned its first<br />
first-place finish of the season<br />
at the four-team South-<br />
West Suburban Conference<br />
drill invite Feb. 6 in New<br />
Lenox. Central, a combined<br />
team of students from Central<br />
and Lincoln-Way West,<br />
led all teams with 6,342<br />
points. Lincoln-Way East<br />
was right behind at 6,322<br />
and Lockport placed third<br />
with 5,893 points.<br />
Lockport junior Edgar<br />
Cana finished in third place<br />
in armed solo in what appeared<br />
to be the most competitive<br />
event of the day. His<br />
694 points were 12 behind<br />
East senior cadet colonel<br />
Kenny Smith, who was second<br />
with 706 points.<br />
“I don’t think he deserved<br />
to be third place,” said Maj.<br />
Steve Brown, the Lockport<br />
Air Force Junior ROTC instructor.<br />
“He should have<br />
finished in a higher place. I<br />
know the scoring is subjective,<br />
but he operates at national-level<br />
speed. … This is<br />
my 18th year [coaching], and<br />
his is the toughest routine<br />
I’ve seen by one of my guys.”<br />
Cana’s highlights included<br />
blind catches and flips<br />
behind his back, although a<br />
drop did hurt him.<br />
Central’s Senese, who<br />
won the event, praised Cana,<br />
who won armed solo at last<br />
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