Othello's Melo, Perez and Ephrata's Johns win 2A Region 4 championships

SPOKANE VALLEY — It’s Othello tradition to send its wrestlers off to the Mat Classic with a big to-do outside of PJ Taggares Gym every year. There is a sense of community pride, tradition and a year ago a couple of hundred friends and family sent the most recent gladiators off in style with signs and baskets.