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Yeah was early on and Rumph is one of the top 5 in the state on his feet in my opinion. If Rumph couldn't take him down but one time Max then I'd say that's pretty good lol. He is a beast on his feet. He had to not feel well this past weekend. He's a machine. Should be good.

Since no one is coming to the defense of Austin Bethel, it looks like I will...
 
1st point- The injury time was due to a medical condition that Austin has struggled with for 4 years. It is a huge accomplishment that he has been able to continue to compete when after his freshman year it was thought he would never wrestle again. The injury stoppage was MY call to check on the health of MY wrestler. I will not comment any further due to confidentiality.  
 
2nd point- We used ALL of our injury time so that we would not stop the match again. If we had to stop again, we would have defaulted the match. We, Mt. Vernon, do not win that way. We do not break rules or take dives to win matches. 
 
3rd point- The two stoppages AFTER the injury time were due to blood time. That is not on myself or Austin. The official saw it and HAS to stop the match to tend to the blood issue. If anyone watched Ripple's match with Henson, we were on the unfortunate end of that blood time...and we are not complaining about that nor would we be had we lost. 
 
4th point- As to the remarks on his conditioning...I invite you to come watch our running, swimming, and live sessions and ask you to see who goes the hardest, the longest. Austin is in great shape and many don't see that due to his style of getting pins early in matches. For the record, he had Cooper pretty close to pinned (if not pinned) 3 times in the first period. Had that call happened, like it should have, this post would not exist. 
 
Lastly- Neither Austin, the ref, or myself broke any rules during this match. It gets under MY skin that anyone would take a shot at a kid like this. This senior deserved his chance to finish the match even if it was on one leg. We are proud of Austin and all of his accomplishments. He became the FIRST wrestler in our school's history to qualify for state 4 times! That is what I will take away from this weekend and that is worthy of praise, not criticism. 
 
Congrats Austin & Wade!! You guys make MV proud!!
 
Tim Alcorn
Mt. Vernon Head Wrestling Coach
 
Y2, 
I respectfully ask that this post be haulted before it takes any turns for the worse. I know people are entitled to their opinion, but I think this week leading up to the state finals should positively focused on the kids. 

Or black just takes him down....
I'm no means saying don't cheer on sellmer either, but I didn't see much out of him when he wrestled Rumph. I know that was earlier in the season and he is probably more aggressive. We shall see this weekend!

Have to admit, the refs had the fans a little raucous to say it nicely. Mostly with back points and very inconsistent out of bounds stuff. I was a little miffed about the slow-motion fall position and reluctant pin calling. There wound-up being a few episodes that shoulve never happened because the match actually shoulve been over but the slow-motion reaction seemed like it was giving wrestlers time to get into a safer position so they could continue into a match that was really lights out! Maybe just me but happened several times to our guy alone and I saw it all over the place. Made me really appreciate the crews we regularly see.

Portage sends 8
Peele, poynter, Prado, rumph, Kasper, cornejo, Torres, and maceo

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Geez when put like this, it makes it even more exciting!! Nice job! Cosgrove, you owe us all coffee.

Fattore has a tough ticket round against Malone. If he gets through I'd say he has a shot at beating swank

Toughen up, buttercup. They sense your insecurity and feed off it.

Otr, couldn't recall if they were in the same weight or not lol

4 placers and 3 runner-ups isn't exactly a failure either. I'd say the only one who underperformed was Bam. Poynter lost to the eventual runner-up on Friday and Torres and McIntosh ran into 2 hammers. Cornejo is a top 16 guy but I wouldn't call his loss shocking. Rumph' 4th place finish was an overachievement in most people's eyes. All in all I'd call that a successful tournament run as a team, might even say they were dialed in.

I don't know how "dialed in" they were at state.  Poynter lost to Mejia Friday night.  Cornejo lost.  Bam Lawrence lost in the finals to a guy he had beaten previously.  Gaige Torres didn't finish what he set out to do, which was win a title.  I'd say Rumph and McIntosh had nice tournaments, but Portage overall had a very disappointing State Finals.

Ouch, cummins a two timer is a maybe now? I mean yeah he lost at al smith, but it was his first tourney back from injury.
I could see 6 coming from the EC SS.

0-1 versus batman

Probably a little biased, but I'll go with Cavanagh at 113 and Swank at 170

Portage is taking all 14 to EC

Better yet, YouTube Royboy lol

lol I love reading your posts! It was an awesome day!

Portage is taking all 14 to EC

It wasn't the fact that they were trying to take away two points from black, it was trying to get the exact scoring right. 5 takedowns and 2 escapes for rumph should be 12 points. 6 escapes 2 takesdowns and a 2 near fall count is 12.
Black never lost control after the takedown and the back points, but was called that way and rumph was given an escape and then black took him down. It's a matter of opinions I guess on that sequence

It wasn't the fact that they were trying to take away two points from black, it was trying to get the exact scoring right. 5 takedowns and 2 escapes for rumph should be 12 points. 6 escapes 2 takesdowns and a 2 near fall count is 12.
Black never lost control after the takedown and the back points, but was called that way and rumph was given an escape and then black took him down. It's a matter of opinions I guess on that sequence

Shave two points off. Lmfao if you only knew.

Best of luck littells'! He is an amazing wrestler to watch!

Best of luck littells'! He is an amazing wrestler to watch!