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Since the name change from Conseco Fieldhouse to Banker's Life Fieldhouse, instead of saying, "I'm going to Conseco," we could all start saying, "I'm going to the Bank!"  I know it will never be the same as before, but it's just a thought.  What does everyone think?!

INSERT NAME will be the INSERT WEIGHT Champion, you can take that to The Bank!

I like both of these.  The name change did not have a good ring to it.  Now, I think it does.  Great job!  I think it will catch on.

I coach varsity football and had been defensive coordinator for several years.  Last year, I spent it as special teams coordinator.  I am an assistant for high school wrestling and am head coach of our middle school program.  (Our seasons do not overlap too much as middle school season for us is January to mid-March).  I am also head boys'/girls' track and field coach at a neighboring school.  It can sometimes be exhausting, but it is often rewarding...and, amazingly, I do stay awake for sermons at Mass.

I would never tell a kid to focus on only one sport or activity!  I might even encourage him/her to the contrary most times.  You get to be a high school student once.  My parents made sacrifices to allow me to be a kid until I no longer could, and I hope others would do the same.

Yes, this is an old, stale topic at times.  However, in my experiences as a coach, both at the high school and middle school level, I have found great reward in shaking the hands of some opponents.  I can be frustrated with the performance that our wrestler put forth, but it is grounding to see the joy and excitement of an opposing wrestler come to shake your hand after an exciting match.  This is especially true at the middle school level where matches can turn on a dime many times.  This time often gives me the pause I need as a coach to realize that I still need to be encouraging at times to my own wrestler when he comes back to us and that I am still a coach and these kids are still experiencing adolescence.  (College may be different, as they are now young men, but we must all try to guide right the youth of our great sport.)

Even when an opponent loses, you have the opportunity to give that wrestler a word or two of encouragement to compliment him on a particularly strong performance.  After the meet, you may not always remember every mention you would like to give to that wrestler, nor would you likely have the opportunity to say something while quickly going through the team line.  However, and I realize this does not happen the majority of the time, if I can mention to a kid that he did a nice job running a particular move or that he works a certain series well, that can have an impact.

With the teams you see most often, if the respect is present between the programs, you will likely be more familiar with the opponent and he with you.  If that respect for the other programs is fostered with the coaching staff, the opponent may recognize that, and, regardless of how great an impact his own coach may have, a simple word or two from a familiar foe can be uplifting to some degree. 

I do not get greatly offended by someone not shaking my hand, but I find it to be a positive thing for our program to teach our kids.  I guess it is then my sincere hope that we do not see an adoption of rules similar to Iowa.

Winners for SD:

Garrett Walton

Zach Otto

Cainan Schaefer

Nathan Boggs

Jacob Lane

Mac Espedilla

Dakota Cameron

Bobby Mangold

Lachlan Bonnette

Andrew Hilton

Hunter Hensley

Matt Disbro

Reserve match winners for SD:

Michael Wandstrat

Ryan Huber

Austin Boggs

Owen Lunsford

Mitchell Vaughn

Fisher Percival

Matt Disbro

Lachlan Bonnette

Bobby Mangold

Austin Terrill

Derek Conety

Thank you patriotpride.  I appreciate your efforts tonight.  

Congratulations to Warren Central on the regional title.  Good luck at team state.  

Congratulations as well to Coach Jones and Jennings County.  You have a tremendous program.  I hope you have a good handful of kids at Conseco this year.  Best of luck.

You should have went to the meet and gave your $6! Can't beat the live wrestling

I love the excitement of a team regional.  It would be nice to be at the meet.  Unfortunately, I also coach our middle school program and practice until 5:30.  I sit in my classroom and grade papers, enter stats, and do any number of other things many evenings at this time.  I appreciate your tongue in cheek remark and know you did not mean anything by it.  However, as someone hoping to be able to leave school at a decent time still tonight in order to see my family, I am doing my job.  I would just like to know how things turned out.  Thank you.

What happened to the updates?  I am interested in what the results were down the stretch in the JC/Co dual and not this oneupsmanship, please.  Thanks.

Winners for SD

Austin Boggs

Zach Otto

Cainan Schaefer

Nathan Boggs

Josh Hines

Mac Espedilla

Dakota Cameron

Bobby Mangold

Lachlan Bonnette

Andrew Hilton

Travis Patton

Matt Disbro

Reserve Match Winners

Ryan Huber

David Blair

Ethan Chase

Travis Patton

Andrew Hilton

Matt Disbro

Michael Wandstrat

I sent in the brackets this morning, but Y2 will have to put them into a bracket.  He probably could not get to them yet.  Patience all.  And, yes, it was a long night, but that is the nature of a seed meeting at times.

EIAC @ South Dearborn--Wrestling starts at 9 on Saturday

Batesville

East Central

Franklin County

Greensburg

Lawrenceburg

South Dearborn

Team Scores

208  East Central

177.5  South Dearborn

128.5  Union County

104  Conner (KY)

98.5  Richmond

94.5  Indian Creek

69.5  Boone County (KY)

38  Cambridge City Lincoln AND Corydon Central

106

A. Isaacs CCL Fall 5:59

W. Brasier EC

T. Blessing IC 2-0

C. Bowers UC

113

B. LaHue CC MajDec 16-3

E. Eckstein EC

B. Taylor BC  TechFall 18-2

R. Weireter RI

120

T. Gutapfel EC Fall 5:07

T. Badida CON

J. Gregory UC Fall 2:05

Z. Gatton IC

126

B. Struewing EC 3-2

T. Twine RI

C. Evans SD Fall 1:38

G. Smith CON

132

A. Fuller UC 8-6

G. Port RI

J. Salatin EC MajDec 11-1

S. Maley CCL

138

J. Bottoms RI Fall 1:45

M. Dole EC

B. Manning SD Fall 3:52

M. Grandstaff CON

145

B. Giffin SD MajDec 8-0

D. Wheeler IC

H. Hartman UC 4-2 OT

D. Noe RI

152

M. Edwards UC Fall 5:25

J. Barron SD

L. Gramman EC Fall 1:58

H. Gross RI

160

J. Shaw SD 7-3

J. Bischoff EC

J. Warwick CON Fall 3:32

A. Wethington IC

170

B. Jones BC Fall 2:59

A. McClanahan SD

D. Mitts EC Fall 3:23

E. Fiorelli CON

182

S. Steele BC Inj Def

Z. Fisher CON

C. Snodgrass IC Fall 2:05

D. Conety SD

195

D. Grimes UC 3-2

S. Caddell SD

T. Moore EC Fall 5:00

B. Weireter RI

220

K. Knura IC Fall 3:23

T. Thompson CON

C. Caddell SD Fall :55

T. Nuhring EC

285

R. Brown EC Fall 3:42

J. Case SD

D. Deilkes UC Fall 4:01

G. Carver CC

No he didnt??? Harvey was taking laxitives to make weight and almost got dq'ed for something that happend... the match wasnt at all close

I highly doubt you wish to state a wrestler was doing something illegal with his weight loss unless you know for certain.  I would think it unwise to put something so careless on a public forum without direct knowledge.  Coaches do not condone this type of weight loss, and young wrestlers should not look to these types of solutions for weight loss.  Things are much more strict than 15-20 years ago with regard to weight monitoring and management.

11th Annual Knights' Classic at South Dearborn

Boone County (KY)

Cambridge City Lincoln

Conner (KY)

Corydon Central

East Central

Indian Creek

Richmond

Union County

South Dearborn

285 lbs.  Jon Case (South Dearborn)  Dec. 17 (Jeff Classic)  :07 vs. Batesville

Thank you for the compliment, Dr. Oyler.  To clarify (for those who wish for it), the mat clock was a tabletop clock with a very indistinct and quiet buzzer.  In the midst of six mats going on concurrently, it would be hard for an official to monitor the clock sometimes when viewing the action of the match.  Only a JV wrestler was working the clock, and no one was throwing a towel.  I simply helped the official make the correct call in a difficult situation.

To that regard, Coach Gardner's (SD's head coach) practice t-shirts for more than ten years have included the same words on the front.  One of those words is integrity.  Our team even had a conversation at practice on Tuesday about what that specific word means.  We expect our wrestlers to perform with passion (and if you have witnessed me coaching, to say the least, you could call me passionate), win with class, and lose with dignity. 

Life lessons on both sides of this issue, and others on the mat, can be taught to the wrestlers.  If a wrestler gets the raw end of a bad call, we can teach from that.  If he gets the benefit of a bad call and the wrestler knows it, he should not gloat from the victory but feel very fortunate, and we should help him understand that his reaction to a situation is important.  However, as a coach, we are responsible for helping the young wrestler understand why things like integrity are so important in life.  We should all coach because we wish to see the best for kids.  We all should hope that we can model virtues to them that will serve them later in life.  We all will make errors in judgment from time to time while coaching, but, at heart, we must always do things with the best interest of educating kids to be solid adults.

Day One

SD 31 Harrison (OH) 45

SD 24 Westfield 43

SD 33 Jeffersonville 40

SD 84 Manual (KY) 0

SD 73 Oldenburn Acad 6

Day Two

SD 29 East Central 48

SD 42 Madison 30

SD 68 Crawford Co. 6

SD 61 Lawrenceburg 18

SD 60 Ev. Harrison 12

6-4 during the two-day

Blake Giffin-10-0-145 champion

I am certain it will very from team to team and from year to year.  We have 30 kids out and only a few subs between 120 and 132, have only two subs from 138-160, have 6 182 lbers, and have 4 195lbers.  We hosted two JV meets a couple weeks back and had two teams bring 4 and 5 heavyweights apiece and both had only a sprinkling of lower weights.  Again, team to team and year to year...

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Just some food for thought on the topic and a few quotes to support some claims.  I don't have time to fully chime in on the topic as I am still in school for this full week.  I will just say that I find both sides of the argument compelling in some fashion, but something has to be done to balance our budget.  I will be glad if our state comes out of this recession in better position than most.  We all know where California is headed.  Give me Midwestern values and work ethic any day.

"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity.  But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."  -Alan Gregg-

I believe we are starting to find out how hard it is to survive prosperity.  Our country is in the midst of some serious soul-searching.  We must decide in the next few years if the United States will continue as a free and independent country that will forge ahead doing what is right for itself, or submit to the pressures of others countries and sacrifice our identity so that we might be liked by the rest of the world's governments. (Note:  I did not say the world's population.)  Despite the fact that we are in such upheaval as a nation, we are still the envy of the world.  When something goes wrong, we are who they all look to (even though they will criticize our leadership later). 

2.  The belief that everyone must go to college.  While I agree a majority of our country needs higher education, we need ditch diggers, we need janitors, we need mechanics, we need construction workers, and we need trash men.  Without the non-core classes in school, these students will not have the fundamental skills to do these jobs.

"If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera."  -John Rich-

Let's see, do I hire a teacher with 15 years experience and have to pay him $55,000 or a teacher with no experience and pay him $32,000.  What do you think the administrator is going to pick?

"Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more."  -Bob Talbert-

I know of at least a few coproations that go by this mantra and will hire the better teacher regardless of experience.  It is only a few

Winners for South Dearborn

75 Schaefer

80 K. Williams

100 Hyatt

105 Dreyer

110 Lane

115 Miller

120 Manning

125 Raab

130 J. Williams

155 J. Morgan

285 Buckingham

AJ, here is your first semi-serious answer to the question,

 

Now i am somewhat young, and was about 15 when class basketball began, but if i remember correctly, back when baskebtall was just a 1 class sport they played two rounds at state. The two semi final games were in the morning/early afternoon, then at night they played the finals. I am almost positive that at halftime of the Finals game, both teams who lost in the semi-finals were recognized and given medals for their accomplishments.

To get back to the original question:  When basketball had a final four for the state championship the losers of the semi-finals got medals even though they didn't play a consolation game.  Not sure if they were third place or finalist medals like Razo mentioned, though.

This is how it was done before class basketball.  I, however, am also uncertain as to what these medals were inscribed with.

In our good ol' back-to-back dual, South Dearborn wins 60-45 after losing 62-47 last Thursday.  Many different matchups were used in the lineups to avoid most from wrestling same individuals.

Winners for SD:

75 Schaefer

80 Boggs

85 K. Williams

100 Hyatt

110 Lane

120 Miller

125 Raab

130 J. Williams

145 J. Morgan

155 Bugni

285 Buckingham

South Dearborn 56

Greendale 54

South Dearborn 69

Franklin Co. (Silver) 37

South Dearborn 44

Franklin Co. (Blue) 69

South Dearborn 63

Connersville 54

South Dearborn goes 3-1 on day.

This was the first year for this meet, and as usual at FC, it was well-run.

South Dearborn 47

Milan 62

Winners for South Dearborn

75 Schaefer

80 Boggs

100 Hyatt

110 Mangold

115 Miller

120 Manning

125 Williams

130 Raab

145 Bugni

Could the IHSWCA do anything to recognize this young man?  The association is not directly involved with the IHSAA, so if the board were to so choose, it could designate some type of distinction upon this young man if they felt it was appropriate.  If you are a member, maybe it is something that you could suggest to someone on the board.  I don't know if it would be considered, or what in particular could be done, but possibly the association could right the wrong to some degree if they truly felt it was wrong.