Answer: The AD cancels duals, and on other duals kids who didn't get a chance earlier, get a chance now. The goal is to prepare them for the city dual championships. It'll be fun to watch and a good experience for the kids.

I'd like to see my boy compete in some of the other national tourneys, but in the long run it'll be worth it. Being a team captain, he's learned valuable skills that will help him as he grows into a young man. For that I am grateful. Individual excellence is awesome, but in the end sometimes you have to learn to sacrifice to see others excel.

"I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy."

Good luck everyone as we near the end of (some of our) MS seasons and the beginning of the upcoming Kids Club season! Hopefullyt we'll all meet up at the MS State Championships in March and cheer each other on as Team Kansas at the MS Nationals duals in Iowa!

Thanks Bronson for starting this thread! I have enjoyed watching how the boys are doing over the last few weeks! Looks like tough competition coming up in Kids all across the board! Holton will finish up the season with League this upcoming Saturday.

Is Holton not @ Rock Creek on Monday 12-06-10?

Any Jr High wrestling going on? This thread almost made its way to page two. Keep the results coming if you have any. I have enjoyed following the season results that have been posted.

I'm curious to know how many districts still have junior highs as opposed to middle schools? I know Lawrence does but I was under the assumption that junior highs are pretty rare.

I may be wrong, but I think it came up this last year, that Lawrence was the last holdout when it came to Junior Highs (7th, 8th, and 9th.). This got approved to be changed for Lawrence USD 497 starting next year. 9th graders are moving to the High Schools, 6th graders are moving to the Jr Highs, and the Jr High Schools will then have their names changed to Middle Schools, ie Lawrence South Middle School. Last year was the first year freshman got to compete at the HS level in sports as long as the Jr High season didn't coincide with the ongoing HS season.

I love Lawrence, but don't always agree with our thinking sometime!

Hey Lee,

A group from Lawrence South wrestled in Atchison last night but I didn't attend. Next week, Thursday Dec 9th is the Emporia SW dual, then City Quad on Tue Dec 14th at SW. You'll have to come out!

PS, did you learn to text yet so you can keep me updated on Leavenworth this weekend?

Ulysses Invitational
Nov 20

Ulysses 183, Garden City Kenneth Henderson 159, Colby 157, Scott City 155, Goodland 136.5, Dodge City 120, Hugoton 91, Garden City Abe Hubert 45, Holcomb 31

Rick Cue
Ulysses

Bronson,

I have some pretty good technical skills, and do very well on the computer. I have to admit, I am still holding out on the texting thing though. My plan was to have the texting thing going on, have an upgrade on a car that now has over 251K miles on it, but this window thing came up. Or, should I say windows for almost the entire house. So, for the time being, I am sticking with the caveman way of cellphone calling, and will continue to push that Dinosaur of a Camry I have up and back to Leavenworth every day.

A Team only:

Holton 194
SFT 124
Sabetha 116
JW 69
RV 24
PLMS 21

A-Team

75lbs one kid in bracket moved to B Team Bracket

80lbs Holton was open

85lbs Holton No placers

90lbs Pool - Holton 1st

95lbs Wright-Holton 4th

100lbs Booth-Holton 1st

105lbs Rieschick-Holton 1st

110lbs Lovvorn-Holton 1st

115lbs Butto-Holton 1st

120lbs Allen,I.-Holton 1st

127lbs Howerton-Holton 1st

134lbs Barta-Holton 2nd

141lbs Baum-Holton 1st

148lbs McClane,D.-Holton 2nd

155lbs Clark-Holton 2nd

165lbs Shields-Holton 1st

180lbs Fox-Holton 2nd

256lbs Allen,C-Holton 1st

Holton had 10 1st placers, 4 2nd placers and one 4th placer out of 18 weight classes...not too shabby!

Nice job to all Middle School wrestlers across the board! Sometimes this is the first try for alot of them..just an intro into the sport! Hope to see alot of them out on the Kids Club wrestling circuit this upcoming season!

Congrats to Coach Beims and Coach Lovvorn of Holton!! Great Season! Also...Holton had a great group of parents!

Kim Lovvorn

The Tonganoxie Middle School wrestling team finished its season 7-4 in duals and 274-179 in individual matches, winning 206 of those by pinfall.

Dalton Tavis went undefeated for the year, finishing 15-0. Asher Huseman only dropped one match, finishing 16-1. Seth Wolf went 16-3, Ben Clark was 17-4 and Jared Somers finished 14-5.

Mitch Brock led the Warriors with 19 wins and 15 three-point near falls.

Ethan Phillips led TMS in takedowns (43), escapes (11) and technical falls (four).

Duskin Hull had a team-high six two-point near falls and Kendall Parsons’ 15 pins were the most among Tonganoxie wrestlers.

TMS season records

[Wrestler, record (pins)]

Casey Allen, 2-3 (1)
Timothy Beadle, 1-1 (1)
Mitch Brock, 19-4 (12)
Ben Clark, 17-4 (13)
Grant Elston, 10-5 (6)
Austin Ettinger, 16-6 (16)
Kyle Fain, 9-6 (7)
Randy Ferguson, 3-12 (3)
Sinjan Gergick, 8-3 (4)
Andrew Harris, 10-3 (9)
Carl Hecht, 8-9 (7)
Harrison Heike, 0-2
Sage Herrera, 12-4 (11)
Duskin Hull, 15-7 (11)
Tucker Horton, 1-0 (1)
Asher Huseman, 16-1 (14)
Matthew Johnson, 4-10 (3)
Alex Kroll, 3-12 (1)
Dalton Lund, 1-17
Ryan Malone, 3-11 (3)
Garrett Martin, 11-9 (8)
Heath Martin, 11-6 (6)
Thomas Minor, 9-9 (8)
Raymond Munoz, 1-2 (1)
Issac Nickel, 2-9 (1)
Kendall Parsons, 15-6 (15)
Ethan Phillips, 12-8 (4)
Lucas Skaggs, 0-0
Jared Somers, 14-5 (11)
Brady Swedo, 0-6
Dalton Tavis, 15-0 (12)
Seth Wolf, 16-3 (13)
Connor Yates, 11-10 (7)

Good Job Tonganoxie and Holton, and way to go on keeping some good stats!

This evening Middle School wrestling for Lawrence came to an end with the annual Lawrence City Quad Championships. Here are the results for Lawrence South:

Lawrence South over Lawrence West 88-12
Lawrence South over Lawrence SouthWest 64-34
Lawrence South over Lawrence Central 108-0

Lawrence South wins it's 29th city championship. Good job boys! Congrats to Coach Randy Streeter and Coach Jim Beltch!

Great job South Junior High! Coach Streeter does a tremendous job keeping these guys prepared and focused. This is the primary feeder program for Lawrence High, and one of the reasons that they are in the early stages of the best high school wrestling program that I have seen since I moved here in '85. Coach Naughton, Coach Page and Coach Streeter will keep the high school guys dialed in for the rest of the season. I am glad that these guys are driving our program. It should be a great ride.

The A.R.M.S League Tournament results:

1. Kenneth Henderson-Garden City Falcons 330.0
2. Liberal South Apaches 310.5
3. Dodge City Cardinals 208.0
4. Abe Hubert-Garden City Hawks 176.0
5. Liberal West Warriors 101.0

Individual Results are as follows:
75 Adrian Orozco Liberal West Warriors
80 Bryan Miller Liberal South Apaches
85 Jaden McRoberts Dodge City Cardinals
90 Victor Peralta Liberal South Apaches
95 Dylan Unger Kenneth Henderson Falcons
100 Alex Bermudez Liberal South Apaches
105 Dontrell Gaston Abe Hubert Hawks
110 Tevin Briscoe Kenneth Henderson Falcons
115 Clay Weil Dodoge City Cardinals
120 Aaron Serna Dodge City Cardinals
127 Juan Anguiano Kenneth Henderson Falcons
134 Zac Finch Kenneth Henderson Falcons
141 Brandon Kisner Liberal South Apaches
148 Veronica Fry Kenneth Henderson Falcons
155 Tristan Martinez Liberal South Apaches
165 Cristian Torres Dodge City Cardinals
180 Rex Heronemus Liberal South Apaches
265 Sergio Borjas Liberal South Apaches
Complete results can be found at trackwrestling.com

Although we aren't as intense as some of the other Middle schools in the area and only get to wrestle triple duals agains tall the other MS's in the area we had a pretty good season for a USD-500 school. In a district where you'll have 95 kids tryout for basketball and 12 come out for wrestling and that's if we are lucky. Here at Coronado Middle, this season we started recruiting during football season. It helped that we were also the football coaches. We were able to fill all weight classes except for 75, 80,105,148 and 141. Not many in our district were able to fill 75 and 80, the lowest weight was 85. We finished the season 6-2 our only losest coming a the beginning of the season when on 110 didn't make weight. We lost those to matches 42-41. We won the rest. Can somebody tell me the rule that doesn't allow 6th graders to participate in fall.winter sports in the state of Kansas. I know that it would help us tremendously in USD-500. Plus how do I go about trying to get a district Middle School tournament going? I know this would also help boost support and interest in the kids if they knew that there was a chance to showcase what they have been doing all this time.

Good for your you guys! Sounds like you put some work in and your High School will benefit. I understand the frustration of BB. We live in the middle of BB country and every kid grows up wanting to run in Allen Field House.

I read the KSHSAA rule in the past for 6th graders and I can't quote it or give you the link, maybe later, but I believe it says 6th graders can only compete against other 6th graders in middle school. I think they may even limit them to only duals, but I maybe incorrect on that one.

MS wrestling isn't the toughest in Kansas since most schools don't participate, but I think it's great for the "team" aspect as well letting the kids represent their school. I also love to see natural wrestlers stumble across wrestling for the first time in their life and just love it!

I am sure some middle school coach will help you with the tourney info. Sounds like you guys did pretty good filling the majority of the weights. Good luck to you and I applaud your effort!!!!