Comment on Foxcroft edges Dexter to win fourth straight PVC wrestling title

GUILFORD, Maine — Dustin Simmons had plenty of individual motivation at Saturday’s Penobscot Valley Conference wrestling championship meet. Three previous trips to the championship finals had produced nothing but disappointment. And the clock and scoreboard weren’t working in the Foxcroft Academy senior’s favor late in his last bid for a conference title against Gabriel Stone of Dexter in the 160-pound final. But Simmons rallied from a 5-1 deficit in the final seconds for a buzzer-beating 6-5 victory that not only satisfied his personal goal but became the difference as Foxcroft edged Dexter by 4 1/2 points to capture its fourth consecutive PVC crown. The Ponies finished with 169 points, just ahead of Dexter’s 164.5.