Semperfi55

He definitely hit a homerun....

I'm just jacking with ya man...I just figure the refs made the call...and it ain't nothin til' the call is made!!

wake up dude...Given the circumstances it was a good call. You were probably one of the guys in the stands heckling the refs. Guys like you crack me. It was a good call. McCloskey didn't escape. Two refs on the mat confer and they gave McClurg the call. Change your hobby to watching 2 and a half men!!

I think if James comes out on Friday and remembers how he felt with this loss....it's going to be an interesting tournament. I saw James give up an escape to Belden with 10 seconds left in the match and it was like he came out like a rocket and took Belden down to make it 14-1, as if to say that the point was just a fluke.

I thought it was a good call...McClurg only had to hold him for 7 sec...and he was all over him ....it was close though, looked like McCloskey only had his leg now had he lifted out of it perhaps a different call...was definitely close....I guess that's why we have refs. Close call.

And James came back with a vengence against smiley from BG. Last week James beat him 10-0 in the regional final, after the loss to Gettiger he came out to put the hammer on Smiley with a 14-3 score before he pinned him. I don't think counting James out would be a good idea either.

I'm not sure McClurg would have beat Tatom in the second round who defaulted out with an injured knee...Gives McClurg a default win, but he definitely came through when he decisioned McCloskey in the final match. I'm just glad he didn't celebrate as much as he usually does. Just won the match and with very little celebration he walked off like the winner he was.

James took a year off and home schooled,....no one seems to mention that Brooks is a 19yo still in high school!!. Give James a break. He's a 15 yo freshman who's birthday is at the end of may, I hear there are a LOT of kids that are old for high school, James will graduate at 18 like most kids will. I hear he's put in a lot of hard work and I'd think we're going to see a lot of great things from him this next few years!!

James took a REALLY hard headbutt actually, and I was watching the whole match, he let the CP kid go 5 times, did look like he was a little winded but come to find out that he had a brief asthma attack, so he wasn't able to catch his breath as well as usual.