Scott Swanson
Kris Newport looked like he’d just won his first state wrestling championship Saturday night as he leaped into his coach’s arms at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland.
It wasn’t his first, but it had been a long time coming for the senior 145-pounder after he won his first title four years ago as a freshman, then experienced a long drought complicated by personal and academic difficulties.
But that was behind Newport Saturday…