Got a voicemail from Bob Bitner, head trainer at Hanover Academy of MMA. He gave me the run-down on how his team did at the recent Grapplers Quest in Lancaster.
“All in all, I’m very,very, very pleased with our performance. The guys did great,” he said. “For us, not being a full-time Jiu-Jitsu school, I couldn’t have asked for a better performance than what the guys did.”
- Jay Haas won 1st in the men’s intermediate division.
- Bo Christie won 1st in the men’s executive heavyweight division.
- Alex Giron, won 3rd in the teen novice division.
- Andy Smith won 4th in the men’s novice division.
- And the man himself, Bob Bitner, won 2nd in the masters advanced division. It was actually Bob and Joe Martini from Philadelphia’s Rocco MMA who were battling it out for first and second, Bob said. Bob called Joe “a very very strong man. He made me work. … We went the distance, all five rounds,” and in the last 20 seconds or so, Joe scored a point on Bob, making it 1-0. “I’m definitely looking forward to getting to that rematch,” Bob said.
