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Besides CP and prior to this year, it looks like only BB and CG from 2023 scored higher team points than CP did yesterday using the current scoring model. If we include the 22 & 23 CP top 2 scores, this year CP snagged the 7th best team score ever. Not bad with only 4 seniors on your starting varsity (150, 175, 215 and 285).

I was curious about this too. The announcer at 157 said Western had 1 state champ named Shepherd in 1991. I thought Ray Shepherd won 138 in the mid 80s too.

Just saw LaTocca is a senior with a 4.77. It’s him going to Air Force, so he will probably get it.

Shoutout to Nowaczyk for being backup to Cruz then taking 3rd. I think he has a good GPA too, so he’d be a good candidate for the Mental Attitude award, besides Brabender if he’s the one I heard going to Air Force.

Yes. I got that. I just didn’t recall if 1st got you 2 or 4 more. If BB wins 113, 132 and 190 by regular decisions only, that’s 12 pts and CP would have to get two pins at 138 and 215 to win by .5. 2 BB pins at 113 and 132 is still only 12, so the fat lady can’t sing before 138 ends.

It might make the difference if the points are 2 or 4 between 1st and 2nd Is is 16 pts for 1st and 12 or 14 2nd? I found it in the program. 1st 16 pts 2nd 12 pts

CP came back and is up .5. Tragic 165 got injured. If BB doesn’t win at 215, it’ll be 3 in finals for BB vs 2 for CP. What’s the point difference bt 1 and 2?

CP can still win. Last year they won every match after losing in the quarters or semis. If you can’t get what you want, get the next best thing.

1 pt Nowaczyk 3 pts Rinehart 3 pts Will Clark Track says CP at 6. Did they lose a team point?

In a letter, X fka Twitter. Smh. DeMarco’s dad should be thanking Sessa for that excellent advice. If various power structures in Lake County had taken similar, more appropriately phrased, advice, it wouldn’t have been worse than pulling teeth trying to get my 3 kids to achieve their full potential at CP. I’m tempted to start a thread, “Before you move,” but my edit and delete features have disappeared, so I’m trying to be cautious about writing. I really enjoyed my time sitting in the CP practice room watching moves I could later practice at home with my son and talking shop (including recruiting) with Mr. Moran, not the school coaches. What a very nice family that is. AD Dorulla can be a very reasonable man. He agreed to fix the girls track schedule, and CP finally ended the LC sectional run. However, he should have considered the effect on a teen of making him sit a year twiddling his thumbs. Teens with too much time on their hands run the risk that they figure out that spending time with a gf is more fun than going to a school that makes you dive on random tennis balls so that you don’t think twice if it’s ever a grenade. Dorulla pulled a genius move when Lorek took over to help him by bringing in Bill Hawkins. He’s the most gifted coach I’ve ever met in knowing just how to talk to kids. There are coaches who can make you hate wrestling and never want to wrestle again in under 5 seconds.

I noticed on the pairing show a comment about ihsaatv.org being the exclusive way to watch the finals. Will we be able to also watch it with a Flo Pro subscription like we could with SS?

Proof? Is this coincidence? CP move-ins off the top of my head (correct me if wrong) in recent years: Chesterton: Goin Portage: Roberson, 2 Moran (?) Lowell: 2 Cruz Lake Central: Mendez, Goodwin Michigan: Bettich Illinois: Uribe, Estrada East Central: Shepherd Hobart: Lewis Valpo: Murphy who went back to PA after getting a year ban Griffith: Tsirtsis Avon to BB Garcia, Brewer (older one beat a kid from Ohio who transferred to Culver) CG Riser commented recently that a lot of CG families who used go to Cathedral are now staying home. There are valid arguments on both sides of this debate. The good part about recruiting or allowing transfers is that Indiana has 3 teams good enough to compete at Iron Man and these teams are getting IN kids more ready for college with better daily practice partners. The negative side is a greater incentive to red shirt 8th grade year if you hope someday to even be a to make varsity and the risk that you’ll find out how disposable and replaceable you are when a coach makes you forfeit after an illegal move injured you. Cruz and Haines, for example. IHSAA can’t consistently and fairly enforce the transfer rule when kids can just move before class starts freshman year, when they can just have their AD sign off, or when they can skirt the rules if that $1 assistant coach end run claim is true. Cathedral and Mater Dei have recruited from anywhere they want for decades. Should we now penalize the public schools? Why should Blair Academy in NJ get to recruit Ferrari from TX and Wyoming Seminary get to have Murphy from Valpo? The only thing I’m confident about is that we should consider massive move-in talent before giving national coach of the year awards.

https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022-23 2023-24 Football Alignment.pdf There are 32 6A enrollment football schools and 32 wrestling sectionals, so one 6A school in the Crawfordsville #17 wrestling sectional sounds about right. Wrestling Sectionals with 6A schools: 1. Lake Central 2. Portage 3. Crown Point 4. 5. Penn 6. Warsaw 7. 8. Lafayette Jefferson 9. Elkhart 10. 11. Carroll (F.W.), Northrop 12. Homestead 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Zionsville 18. Carmel, Fishers, HSE, Westfield 19. Noblesville 20. Cathedral, Tech 21. Lawrence Central, Lawrence North, North Central, Perry Meridian, Southport 22. Franklin Central, Warren Central 23. 24. 25. Avon, Ben Davis, Brownsburg, Pike 26. Center Grove 27. 28. 29. Columbus North 30. Jeffersonville 31. 32. The East Chicago semi-state with the first 8 sectionals looks the most balanced out if you only look at spreading out the 6A schools. The New Castle semi state route has been a tough route for small school teams for a while with 15/32 6A schools when 8 would be the expected average. I think cross country may have recently sent Fishers and/or HSE up to Fort Wayne for semi state before cc cancelled semi-state (like track) to balance things out bc the Noblesville regional was crazy competitive.

When did they start advancing 4 from sectional? Back in 1988, only 2 advanced to regionals. It’s hard to justify a complaint about having only 1 6A team in your sectional when 4 advance.

The Duneland Athletic Conference has: 3 Lake Co. (CP, Merrillville & LC) 3 Porter Co. (Ches., Valpo, Portage) and 2 LaPorte Co. (LaPorte & MC) schools 5 Champs this year. (145, 160, 170, 182, 220)