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Maleah Pacella

Friday, February 1, 2013

VIDEOS: 8-Year-Old Baldwin Girl Out-Wrestles Boys

'Maleah the Mauler' has been a force for Baldwin youth wrestling.

Girls just want to have fun. And sometimes, that means beating up boys. OK, not exactly beating them up—but at least beating them. Maleah Pacella, a third-grader from W.R. Paynter Elementary School in Baldwin Borough, has been a force to be reckoned with this season for the Baldwin youth wrestling program. Just watch the videos in the media gallery above for proof. Competing against males most of the time, Maleah, whose family lives in north Baldwin, has gone 12-1 in the Keystone Wrestling League this season, according to an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. She was even invited to participate in a girls state championships event recently in New Jersey and went 4-1 in that tournament, losing only to the state champion, who was two …

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Robert Edward Healy, III

10:20 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013

Ha. All is well. You're talking to an ex-boxer here.   more ›

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