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The Portage Judo Club is getting ready for competition next weekend.  They're heading to Stonewall for the Balmoral Open with some of their students who haven't been in a competition before.

Head Coach Brian Case says they have a big group of people who just got started in Judo this year who have spectated at a few competitions but haven't competed themselves.  He says the Balmoral Open will be the first time for about a half dozen of their students adding most of the new students are between the ages of 9 and 12.  Case says some of their more advanced teenage and senior students will also be in competition.

The two day competition gets started in Stonewall next Saturday and Sunday, March 24th and 25th.