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After this weekends sectional championships,  what schools continued their sectional dominance? How many consecutive years has your school won the sectional?   Im assuming EMD has the longest streak, and i know Perry  Meridian Merrillville, Crown Point seem to always win their sectionals.

 

I did see Harrison West Lafayette's streak was in jeapardy this weekend, but they had a great finals round to win the Lafayette Jeff sectional  and posted their 10th title tin 10 years.

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2010 represented a white-knuckled sectional for the Wildcats.  Reitz beat MD in the dual 36-21.  It marked the first time Reitz had beaten MD in 35 years, while serving up MD's first home loss in 32 years.

 

"I've waited for this a long time," said Reitz coach Scott Ferguson, "But even when we were ahead, I wanted our kids to keep wrestling and they did.  But they also understand this is not our goal; this is only the next step. We have bigger things and bigger matches ahead of us."

 

Greg Schaefer did not mince words.

"We just flat got out-wrestled tonight," said Schaefer. "They took it to us."

 

The Panthers continued their beat-down on Mater Dei, besting them at the SIAC tournament.

"The SIAC is a nice win," said Ferguson. "But it's even more important how it sets us up for the sectional."

 

On paper, the sectional was another horse race; Reitz had five top-seeds and three number-two seeds, while Mater Dei had five top-seeds and two second seeds.  The week leading up to the sectional, Mater Dei had no concern of their 34-year winning streak.  The talk was all about Reitz.  More importantly, beating Reitz.

 

“It was no secret they were the team to beat, so that’s where our focus was,” recalled Schaefer.
 

The focus paid dividends.  The ‘Cats built up steam in the semis while Reitz sputtered.  The Wildcats continued their march through the consolation and final to pull away and capture the 35th consecutive sectional.

“In a tournament like this, you can’t take anything for granted,” said Schaefer. “We had so many good wins, but you can’t stop. You just have to follow it with another.”

Scott Ferguson was clearly disappointed.

“We thought it was ours to lose,” he said. “Our goal was to set ourselves up for the semi state by winning everything we could here. We lost some close matches, some we were banking on, and didn’t get some bonus points in places we expected. “We knew it wasn’t going our way when that disqualification gave them some points.”

 

The disqualification was a bizarre, 189 pound match between Harrison’s Cameron Satterfield and Mater Dei freshman Nathan Wright.  Satterfield had a lead and control of the match when he was charged with a penalty point for shoving Wright after they were out of bounds.  The Mater Dei fans booed the errant behavior.  The crowd reaction incensed Satterfield.  He proceeded to have an animated discussion with the referee.  Although his coaches pleaded with him to countenance his words and actions, it fell upon deaf ears.  Satterfield eventually said the wrong thing to the referee and was disqualified.  Wright placed fourth.  Zach Henderson and Quinn Schroeder were the first titlists for the Wildcats, followed by John Sims.

 

“Being the first team to lose to Reitz in 35 years hurt,” said Sims. “Our main concern today was just to win.  We’d been losing close matches, which just isn’t like Mater Dei. We really stressed being more aggressive, really trying to pile up extra points. This was our little payback.”
 

 

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