wrestling

In winning last year's district and regional girls wrestling tournaments, Yelm has the numbers to stay on top. Their experience, however, may vault them into legitimate state contenders. Yelm started last season with 23 wrestlers and took 15 to district.  

The Visalia Country Club is hosting the Jerry Heard Junior Golf Tournament on Monday, Dec. 28. Juniors, 17 years and younger, can sign up through the Northern California Junior Golf Association or contact the golf shop at (559) 734-1458. The GV Mat Cats youth wrestling club's folkstyle season is now in session for all boys and girls, ages 5-16.  

Just because school got out early on Friday didn't mean things were going to go lightly for the Garden City High School wrestling team. It was the last day of the first week of practice -- and only two more weeks before the Buffs open at the Amarillo (Texas) Team Duals on Dec. 4-5. "It's been a really good week of practice, so far," GCHS coach Monte Moser said Friday while his wrestlers were practicing right after GCHS' 11 a.m. student release.

Me and Joey have always had targets on our backs and have been two of the hardest workers on the team   -Lane Greenlee

 

Twenty-one of the 22 matches between varsity, JV and freshmen Fighting Knights wrestlers were decided by pin Friday. "As long as they keep fighting, that's ok. It's hard for them to be aggressive against each other, they're friends," coach JV coach Ted Nesmith. "Nobody disappointed out there. Even when a wrestler was on his back, they continued to fight. That impressed me."

His arm was a little too high and that let me flip him   -Ryan Kaiser

 

The Person wrestling team picked up where it had left off last season by defeating another non-conference opponent to open the 2009-10 campaign. The Rockets did not lose a duals meet outside the Piedmont Athletic Conference all last winter, and the trend continued with a 43-19 victory over the Bartlett Yancey Buccaneers in Wednesday's season-opener at Rocket Gymnasium. Five of Person's eight match-victories were by pin.  

"I've got to get ready to go and perform, no matter how I feel," Keddy said. "I didn't perform the way I wanted to in the first match, and I can't let the way I feel affect the way I wrestle." Brands said there wasn't enough urgency across the board from the Hawkeyes.

show everyone what I'm made of.   -Matt McDonough

 

On a night of many firsts for the Lock Haven University wrestling team, including being the host of the first Division I wrestling match held at a Centre County high school, Rider proved to be very uncooperative visitors. After falling behind nine points after two bouts, Rider rallied for three consecutive wins, including a pin at 141 pounds, before forging ahead with a pin at 174 to subdue the Bald Eagles 24-15 on Friday at Bellefonte High School. Lock Haven, in the debut of new head coach Robbie Wal

You will never have to worry about his effort or guess what he is going to do. He is looking for the fall all the time, and I love that about him.   -Robbie Waller

 

Blue Springs High School graduate Dom Bradley is having a good week even if his University of Missouri wrestling team is not. It took just 18 seconds for the heavyweight to pin his oppenent in Friday's dual match with Purdue in Columbia, but the Tigers suffered a 19-15 loss to the Boilermakers. The eighth-ranked Tigers trailed 19-9 when Bradley took the mat against Purdue's Adam Walls in the final match.  

Robert Kokesh has looked good in red, helping the Wagner Red Raiders to back-to-back state wrestling championships. Now he'll get the chance to wear red for a few more years, as a member of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Kokesh has signed a national letter of intent to attend Nebraska and wrestle for the Huskers, the institution announced Friday.

He comes from a community like mine. I could tell he is a good coach and cares for his athletes.   -Robert Kokesh