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I'm always suprised by the huge audiences that we get for high school wrestling! Unfortunately, businesses who make a living by supplying the wrestling community do not seem to realize the size of the market they are missing. With more financial support LIVE VIDEO Wrestling broadcasts would catch on like wildfire around the State of Indiana. I guess people think basketball is better than wrestling. Boo!!

Thursday's with Penn definitely will be with Coach Al Smith and Referee Jeff Colburn doing the commentary. I will check with the Mishawaka students to see if they can do the Lowell match as well

www.broadcastsport.net will be broadcasting with LIVE VIDEO from 14 huge events this season, starting on December 17th with the Mishawaka at Penn Dual Meet through the Team State Finals on February 27th. This will be the 5th year that we have broadcasted the Wrestling State Finals. Our announcers include former High School and College coaches and former wrestlers, including Hall-of-Fame Coaches Al Smith and Henry Wilks. Check out the following list and let your friends and family know that they can watch Live Wrestling wherever they live throughout the world. [table] Mishawaka at Penn Dual Meet Dec 17thMishawaka Sectional Jan 30thFort Wayne Individual Semi-State Feb 13th Al Smith Invitational at Mishawaka Dec 29 & 30Elkhart Memorial Sectional Jan 30thMerrillville Individual Semi-State Feb 13th NIC Super Dual at SB Adams Jan 16thTeam Regional at Jimtown Feb 3rdIndividual State Finals from Conseco Fieldhouse Feb 19 & 20 NLC Tourneyat NorthWood Jan 23rdGoshen Individual Regionals Feb 6thTeam State Finals from Center Grove High School Feb. 27 NSC Tourney at Jimtown Jan 23rdRochester Individual Regional Feb 6th [/table]

Tom Cameron Invitational Finals Championship match Merrillville 61, South Bend Clay 10 Third-place match Yorktown 56, Kankakee Valley 10 Fifth-place match Chesterton 58, NorthWood 21 Seventh-place match Harrison 64, West Lafayette 9 Ninth-place match Wawasee 69, Boone Grove 12 Round 1 Merrillville 48, Kankakee Valley 20 NorthWood 56, West Lafayette 21 South Bend Clay 41, Chesterton 30 Yorktown 59, Harrison 10 Round 2 Merrillville 72, NorthWood 6 Kankakee Valley 69, Boone Grove 6 Chesterton 45, Harrison 35 Yorktown 69, Wawasee 0 Round 3 Merrillville 72, Boone Grove 6 Kankakee Valley 60, West Lafayette 12 South Bend Clay 51, Harrison 21 Chesterton 45, Wawasee 24 Round 4 Merrillville 79, West Lafayette 0 NorthWood 60, Boone Grove 15 Harrison 34, Wawasee 33 South Bend Clay 39, Yorktown 31 Round 5 West Lafayette 21, Boone Grove 17 South Bend Clay 57, Wawasee 21 Kankakee Valley 57, NorthWood 16 Yorktown 51, Chesterton 22

Chris Traicoff Memorial Invitational Team records 1. MISHAWAKA 5-0, 2. CROWN POINT 4-1, 3. PORTAGE 3-2, 4. FRANKLIN 2-3, 5. CATHEDRAL 3-2, 6. LAWRENCE NORTH 3-2, 7. WESTFIELD 3-2, 8. MUNSTER 1-4, 9. CALUMET 4-1, 10. LAFAYETTE JEFF 3-2, 11. SOUTHMONT 2-3, 12. FLOYD CENTRAL 1-4, 13. VALPARAISO 3-2, 14. LOWELL 2-3, 15. HIGHLAND 1-4, 16. LAKESTATION 0-5. Championship Round Mishawaka 42, Crown Point 17 Portage 39, Franklin 31 Lawrence North 35, Cathedral 34 Calumet 43, Floyd Central 25 Westfield 37, Munster 24 Highland 42, Lake Station 36 Lafayette 38, Southmont 21 Valparaiso 42, Lowell 31 Fourth round Mishawaka 39, Portage 24 Lowell 54, Lake Station 27 Valparaiso 37, Highland 33 Crown Point 46, Franklin 15 Cathedral 35, Westfield 31 Lafayette Jeff 49, Floyd Central 21 Lawrence North 43, Munster 27 Calumet 54, Southmont 24 Third round Mishawaka 45, Franklin 11 Lowell 39, Highland 38 Valparaiso 63, Lake Station 18 Lawrence North 35, Westfield 34 Cathedral 39, Munster 22 Calumet 33, Lafayette Jeff 30 Crown Point 36, Portage 25 Southmont 40, Floyd Central 30 Second round Franklin 31, Lawrence North 27 Portage 34, Cathedral 33 Mishawaka 57, Westfield 7 Calumet 48, Valparaiso 31 Crown Point 46, Munster 21 Southmont 45, Highland 21 Lafayette Jeff 75, Lake Station 6 Floyd Central 49, Lowell 30 First round Crown Point 69, Lake Station 12 Munster 32, Lafayette Jeff 22 Cathedral 59, Valparaiso 18 Franklin 62, Lowell 9 Lawrence North 54, Floyd Central 21 Westfield 54, Southmont 18 Mishawaka 66, Highland 6 Portage 54, Calumet 18

Western 5-0 Hamilton Heights 4-1 Kokomo 3-2 Clinton Central 2-3 Taylor 1-4 South Bend St. Joe 0-5 Kokomo 63, St. Joe 3 Kokomo 32, Hamilton Heights 34 Kokomo 58, Clinton Central 18 Kokomo 57, Taylor, 20 Kokomo 24, Western 37 Does anyone have the other teams scores besides Western and Kokomo? Ryan Wells from Kokomo only has his team's scores.

OK you guys are awesome and helped me check the Semi-State list; so here's my list of State Qualifiers per School Mishawaka 9 Castle 8 Crown Point 7 Indianapolis Cathedral 7 Perry Meridian 6 Yorktown 6 Delphi 5 Bellmont 4 Bloomington South 4 Evansville Reitz 4 Franklin 4 Lawrence North 4 Merrillville 4 Anderson Highland 3 Avon 3 Brownsburg 3 Columbus North 3 Elkhart Central 3 Indianapolis Roncalli 3 Martinsville 3 Munster 3 SB Riley 3 South Adams 3 Adams Central 2 Bluffton 2 Brown County 2 Chesterton 2 Columbia City 2 East Central 2 Elkhart Memorial 2 Evansville Mater Dei 2 Evansville Memorial 2 Fishers 2 FW Leo 2 Hobart 2 Indian Creek 2 Lebanon 2 Lowell 2 McCutcheon 2 Muncie South 2 New Castle 2 Northridge 2 Pendleton Heights 2 Peru 2 Tipton 2 Union County 2 Warren Central 2 Warsaw 2 Winchester 2 Angola 1 Beech Grove 1 Ben Davis 1 Benton Central 1 Carmel 1 Center Grove 1 Charlestown 1 Churubusco 1 Concord 1 Corydon Central 1 Crawfordsville 1 Culver Academy 1 Delta 1 East Chicago 1 East Noble 1 Eastbrook 1 Eastern 1 Evansville Harrison 1 FW Bishop Luers 1 FW Carroll 1 FW Harding 1 FW North 1 FW Snider 1 Greencastle 1 Hanover Central 1 Harrison 1 Heritage Hills 1 Highland 1 Huntington North 1 Indianapolis Chatard 1 Jay County 1 Jeffersonville 1 Jennings County 1 John Glenn 1 Knox 1 Kokomo 1 Lafayette Jefferson 1 Lake Central 1 Lawrence Central 1 Lawrenceburg 1 Marion 1 Mt. Vernon 1 Muncie Central 1 New Albany 1 New Palestine 1 North Central 1 North Posey 1 NorthWood 1 Oak Hill 1 Penn 1 Pike 1 Pike Central 1 Pioneer 1 Portage 1 Prairie Heights 1 Princeton 1 Randolph Southern 1 Rensselaer 1 Rochester 1 Rockville 1 Rushville 1 South Dearborn 1 South Vermillion 1 Southmont 1 Sullivan 1 Terre Haute South 1 Vincennes Lincoln 1 Westfield 1 Whitko 1 Zionsville 1

Wrestling starts at 6:00 on Friday and 9:30 on Saturday. Yes we plan on broadcasting Team State. We can do video there since other folks would rather do swimming. If we can get some sponsors we can run multiple streams to cover matches besides the ones the Mishawaka team is involved in.

Since Saturday morning about 2300 households for Fort Wayne and 3700 for Merrillville. Not bad for a 'second-class' Sport! HA!

www.broadcastsport.net will be providing LIVE VIDEO of Friday night's State Finals matches. We're planning on webcasting 3 separate video feeds to capture as much action as possible. Of course Legendary Hall-of-Fame coaches Al Smith and Henry Wilks will be headlining 2 of the webcasts along with Randy Mitschelen and Tony Holt. We should not experience the buffering problems that we ran into last week at the Semi-States. Unfortunately, the Grinch has once again stolen Christmas, another broadcast company who has not covered a single wrestling event this year has decided that they can cover a 4 mats all day Saturday with only one set of broadcasters. We know how in-effective this method can be, but it is acceptable at the lower levels of the tourney. However, when we get down to the top 8 wrestlers in the State of Indiana, how does a broadcast crew decide which ones are not worthy of their attention? Because of contracts which the IHSAA has agreed to, some media outlets have been given the ability to decide who gets to see what action and who can provide it for you. With that being said, throughout the day Saturday, we will have 4 individual audio broadcasts with each one dedicated to 1 of the 4 mats. Therefore, all 112 of the best wrestlers in the State will have each of their matches covered. Last year Al Smith fans posted on the Coaches Association website that his audio only commentary was better than other people's video broadcast.

All of the archives are now available for Fort Wayne and Merrillville Semi-State broadcasts. On a side note we will be removing the link to the archives of the Elkhart and Mishawaka Sectional archives late this evening per the IHSAA's request. Make sure that you get you fill before then.

What a day yesterday! Sorry for all of the bandwidth issues with www.broadcastsport.net. We will be working on uploading the archives from Merrillville and Fort Wayne. At Merrillville we also saved a copy of the Finals to the hard drive on a laptop, so we could have a clean copy without buffering. That is now available for your viewing pleasure on the Merrillville Semi-State page. We'll be adding more throughout the afternoon, after church and belated Valentines Day dinner with the wife. Next week at the State Finals we will not have the same issues or I will have a stroke.

www.broadcastsport.net is always looking for folks who we can help setup a broadcast crew. If anyone at Evansville or New Castle is interested let us know and we would be glad to assist. It's really not that hard to webcast!!!

Evansville list School CountOfSchool Castle 11 Jeffersonville 10 Evansville Mater Dei 9 Bloomington South 9 Floyd Central 9 Southridge 7 Columbus North 7 Evansville Reitz 7 Center Grove 7 Avon 7 Jennings County 7 Charlestown 7 Mt. Vernon 6 Martinsville 6 Edgewood 5 Franklin 5 Evansville Memorial 5 Providence 5 Columbus East 5 Princeton 4 Corydon Central 4 Cascade 4 Brownsburg 4 Madison 4 Bloomington North 4 New Albany 3 Tell City 3 Mooresville 3 Terre Haute South 3 Scottsburg 3 Indian Creek 3 Greencastle 3 Jasper 3 Brown County 3 Whiteland 2 Southwestern (Han.) 2 Sullivan 2 Danville 2 North Posey 2 Vincennes Lincoln 2 Evansville North 2 Greenwood 2 Boonville 1 Wood Memorial 1 Cloverdale 1 Tecumseh 1 South Spencer 1 Southwestern 1 Tri West 1 Northview 1 Heritage Hills 1 Forest Park 1 New Washington 1 North Knox 1 Gibson Southern 1 Paoli 1 Pike Central 1 Plainfield 1 Evansville Harrison 1 Evansville Central 1 Washington 1

New Castle list of Qualifiers School CountOfSchool Perry Meridian 12 Indianapolis Cathedral 12 Indianapolis Roncalli 11 East Central 9 Lawrence North 8 New Castle 8 Hamilton Heights 7 South Dearborn 7 Westfield 7 Carmel 7 Lawrence Central 6 Warren Central 6 Fishers 5 Lebanon 5 New Palestine 5 Pendleton Heights 5 Rushville 5 Union County 5 Zionsville 5 Fountain Central 4 Mt. Vernon (Fortville) 4 North Central 4 Greenfield Central 4 South Vermillion 4 Southmont 4 Ben Davis 4 Shenandoah 4 Connersville 4 Shelbyville 3 Milan 3 Beech Grove 3 Noblesville 3 Pike 3 Anderson Highland 3 Tri 3 Covington 3 Lawrenceburg 2 Richmond 2 Tipton 2 Southport 2 Rossville 2 Franklin Central 2 Indianapolis Tech 2 Clinton Central 2 Decatur Central 2 Franklin County 2 Batesville 1 Rockville 1 Western Boone 1 Clinton Prairie 1 Frankfort 1 North Montgomery 1 Indianapolis Manual 1 Indianapolis Chatard 1 Elwood 1 Hamilton Southeastern 1 Greensburg 1 North Vermillion 1 Northeastern 1 Guerin Catholic 1 Indianapolis Broad Ripple 1

Here's the list of Qualifiers per school for Woodlan School CountOfSchool Yorktown 10 Peru 9 Bellmont 9 FW Carroll 7 Elkhart Central 7 Huntington North 7 South Adams 7 Elkhart Memorial 6 Whitko 6 East Noble 6 DeKalb 5 New Haven 5 Marion 5 Homestead 5 Prairie Heights 4 Northwestern 4 Southwood 4 Taylor 4 Western 4 Jimtown 4 FW Leo 4 Garrett 4 Woodlan 4 Concord 4 Adams Central 4 Churubusco 4 Angola 4 Eastbrook 4 Bluffton 4 Eastern 3 Southern Wells 3 Lakeland 3 Kokomo 3 Columbia City 3 FW Concordia 3 Muncie South 3 Winchester 3 Mississinewa 3 FW Harding 2 Oak Hill 2 Delta 2 Norwell 2 Randolph Southern 2 NorthWood 2 Muncie Central 2 Wabash 2 Northridge 2 Maconaquah 2 Jay County 2 West Noble 2 Blackford 2 FW South 2 FW Snider 2 Fairfield 2 Wapahani 1 Westview 1 Central Noble 1 North Miami 1 Madison Grant 1 Fremont 1 FW Bishop Dwenger 1 FW Bishop Luers 1 Heritage 1 Goshen 1 FW Northrop 1 FW North 1 Northfield 1

Someone has probably already posted this but if not here are the number of wrestlers from each high school that qualified for the Merrillville Semi-State. School CountOfSchool Crown Point 14 Merrillville 13 Mishawaka 13 Portage 10 Delphi 9 Harrison 9 Lafayette Jefferson 7 SB Riley 7 Penn 7 Lake Central 7 Highland 7 Chesterton 6 Hobart 5 Griffith 5 McCutcheon 5 Plymouth 5 Lowell 5 Logansport 5 Munster 5 Warsaw 4 Knox 4 Seeger 4 Kankakee Valley 3 Winamac 3 New Prairie 3 Hanover Central 3 Gary West 3 East Chicago 3 Pioneer 3 Rochester 3 SB Clay 3 Rensselaer 3 Michigan City 2 North Newton 2 North White 2 Lewis Cass 2 John Glenn 2 Culver Academy 2 Calumet 2 Tippy Valley 2 SB Washington 2 Triton 2 Wawasee 2 Lake Station 2 Benton Central 1 LaPorte 1 Culver 1 South Newton 1 SB Adams 1 Hammond Gavit 1 Andrean 1 River Forest 1 Hammond Clark 1 West Lafayette 1 Whiting 1 Mishawaka Marian 1 SB St Joseph 1 West Central 1 Laf. Central Cath. 1

www.broadcastsport.net will be providing a LIVE VIDEO Broadcast of this Saturday's Merrillville Wrestling Semi-State. We plan to stream 2 separate broadcasts to try to capture as much of the action as possible. With Hall-of Fame Coach Al Smith covering 2 mats and Hall-of-Fame and 2009 Billy Thom Award-recipient Henry Wilks on the other 2 mats, they bring over 50 years of coaching experience to our broadcasts. We also will be broadcasting with LIVE VIDEO from the Fort Wayne Semi-State. In addition there are complete brackets for all 4 of this week's Semi-States at www.broadcastsport.net. The brackets for both of the Northern Semi-States will be update throughout each round, and also the other Semi-State brackets as we can get results sent to us. The IHSAA has graciously allowed us to provide our viewers with archives for 2 weeks after the Semi-State is over.

I hate to show my ignorance or to appear needlessly picky but... When the Regional Winners are paired off according to the IHSAA's criteria for which Regional's #1 seed wrestles which Regional's #4, etc.; why aren't the Regional numbers used the same ones assigned by the IHSAA. With the Regionals moving from school to school, it would seem that try to change the order every year to use alphabetical order needlessly complicates things.

Wrestling starts at 6 PM EST

www.broadcastsport.net will be Live Video Webcasting from the Jimtown Regional.

www.broadcastsport.net has the entire team state bracket on a single sheet. Click on the 'IHSAA Playoff Pairings' button and then the 'Wrestling Pairings' button.

Once again this year www.broadcastsport.net will be webcasting with LIVE VIDEO from both the Elkhart Memorial and the Mishawaka Sectionals tomorrow. At Mishawaka, Fabio Jr. will start the day and then Al Smith will join him for the Finals. Would you call that a Dynamic Duo or what! At Elkhart again this year, Randy Mitschelen will head-up the crew calling the action. Both Sites will be updating brackets as the day goes along. We're calculating current team scores as well. However, as a programmer trying to make sense of the complicated Team Scoring formulas; there is a chance that I might make a mistake. Thanks for those who were patient with our brackets during the Al Smith Invite. Maybe some day brackets can be posted online for all tourney sites! The IHSAA has agreed to allow us to make our archives available for 2 weeks after each event. We say 'Thanks to the IHSAA' If we can procure some sponsors we will be able to continue all the way to both Individual and Team State Finals. Don't forget we still are offering Al Smith Invite DVD's. Need some more sales to cover initial cost.

www.broadcastsport.net will be updating brackets throughout our broadcasts in the tourney. We're doing Sectionals at Elkhart and Mishawaka, Regionals at Goshen and Rochester, Semi-States at Fort Wayne and Merrillville. Don't forget about the LIVE VIDEO from these locations!

The idea about journalism students from each school writing stories about each sport is a great one! Here's another: Put those same students behind a microphone and webcast events from all sports. There is no limit to the number of events being webcast at the same time and the equipment and streaming fees are miniscule compared to the 'old media' way of doing things. We're willing to teach and/or advise any students or fans who are interested. There should be more than at most half-a-dozen groups willing to broadcast wrestling!!!