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Portage will contend:

 

Prado - 113 Semi-State Qualifier

Joseph

Torres

Guerrero - 140# Middle School State Champ

Lawrence - 7th @ 138

Gonzalez - 145 Semi-State Qualifier

Morgan - 152 Semi-State Qualifier

Guerrero

Hedrick -195 Semi-State Qualifier

 

Sorry if I missed anyone.

11 Returning Sectional starters with numerous others who saw some other Varsity matches.  They also have a very tough 8th grade class coming in that will set this team up very well for the future.  A summer of hard work and this team will be challenging the top 5 in the state, I have no doubt about it. 

Alex Guerrero would have been at least a Semi Stater, had his elbow not been injured and their 106 lber who stepped in when Tyler Joseph decided not to wrestle 106 anymore definitely looked like he could be good.  Also their Freshman HWT, looks like if he put some time in the weight room and a little bit more time in the wrestling room he could also be very good.  (I heard one of the volunteer coaches talking to someone about how much he has gained wrestling wise since the beginning of this season). 

I am very excited for the future of Portage Wrestling!

At Merrillville- 120- Jake Hartman wins by disqualification over Portage's Gaige Torres.

Torres was up 4-1 at the time with :10 left in the third period.

Not sure of the exact occurrence but what I have seen it was an illegal slam.  Terrible ending to the Sophomore's 30-1 (2) season. 

If anyone knows what happened further please let us know!

1. Cathedral

2. Crown Point

3. Mishawka

4. Franklin

5. Westfield

6. Lowell

7. Lawrence North

8. Hanover Central(NEW TEAM)

9. South Bend Riley(NEW TEAM)

10. Calumet

11. Lake Station

12. Southmont

13. Floyd Central

14. Valpo

15. Portage

16. Munster

Are these your predictions OnTheRise? 

Portage Indians

Leroy Vega- 2Xer

Sean McMurray- 3Xer, 7th - Vega gets the nod because 1 he's the head coach now, and 2 McMurray grew up in Vega's Club.

Fred Joseph- 2Xer

Eric Keith- 1Xer- gets the nod over the rest because of his style of wrestling

Honorable Mention- Darren Elkins, Frank Colon, Jake Warner, Chad Biddle (All 1Xers)

I also would like to see it the same as college. In four years of varsity I never took blood time...

Are you saying that you have a problem with taking blood time?  I have never had any issue with blood time, it is just injury time that bothers me.  Probably do not have a problem with it because my nose bled in about 1/4 of my high school matches. 

More than 10 times at state there was a situation that an athletic trainer went to the "injured" wrestler and was sent away while the wrestler was sitting on the mat drinking water.  I am not saying that people do not have real injuries when sitting on the mat but all of those times?  I can almost be positive that they all were not injured. 

Taking IT for non injury situations is unethical plain and simple. 

I  do not believe that it is a new rule by any means.  I was called for it numerous years ago.  By you standing up you are technically "avoiding wrestling" because you know that the official is going to call potentially dangerous.  I do not disagree with you, but I have been told by a few officials that it is avoiding wrestling...but they also state that the first two normally will be called potentially dangerous.  Therefore they give you two free opportunities not to allow that top man to get a leg in.

What does EV and MS mean on the predictions?

EV=Evansville Semi State

MS= Merrillville Semi State

NC= New Castle Semi State

Should be a pretty good match.  What happened to Peek from Portage?  Is he not wrestling this year?

Eric Peek wrestles for Griffith now.

I have a question!

In the individual rankings at 132 you have Julian Torres behind Carithers and Burlisson.  However in the MVille semi state you have it Carithers, Torres, then Burlisson. So what I am getting out of this is that you think Torres will do better at semi state but Burlisson is a better state meet wrestler? Obviously I am just giving you a hard time. Thanks for your rankings.

http://hometownsportsindiana.blogspot.com/

for the finals

very true, kids will just want to try and ride people out instead of trying to turn them

OR.....

Maybe kids would actually actively try to escape since the top guy would be getting a point.  Too many times this year I have watched the bottom man turtle up, this makes me more mad than the kid on top just trying to ride.  And with officials being too afraid to call stalling on the bottom man (except Colburn, who would call stalling on a kid who is about to tech fall someone in the first minute of a match), I believe this should be a rule change.  This would also show the importance of a good ground game, thus we would (possibly) see less take him down, cut him situations.

In 11 years at Portage Ed Pendoski accrued:

11 Sectional Titles

10 Regional Titles

9 Semi-State Titles

7 Team State Final Four Appearances

2 Team State Runner ups

55 IHSAA State Qualifiers

42 State Placers

8 Individual State Champions - 14 Matches Under The Light!

Coach of 8 Division I Wrestlers

Probably the same way that Central Indiana schools have to drive 3 hours to Evansville.  I wasn't trying to start an argument here just using some logic.  It seems like the Evansville Semi State would be more logical in the Bloomington area.  I personally don't have any problem driving to the Region or Evansville just looking at logistics and putting more money into the IHSAA's pocket.  Seems like that is what they want.

I don't want an argument either.  Just was asking how you think it would go with the South Bend schools.  Personally, I do not care if it moves or stays.  I think that Merrillville is electric and overfilled, but believe that it would be the same with any venue they decide to change it to. 

Lafayette may be the logical choice to some.  However, how do you feel that Mishawaka and the other South Bend schools will feel when they have to drive 2 hours and 35 minutes from school to lets say Mackey Arena?  Based on Map Quest. 

I will also say one thing about Coach Vlink and you can't hold one decision last year against him, even before this run of 5 straight state finals appearances he built Crown Point into one of the toughest wrestling schools in one of the toughest wrestling regions in the state.  So, to take him off that list would be in my opinion be very wrong.

What I can tell you is from 1996-2004 his Crown Point Bulldogs teams finished at highest 3rd (twice) in the Duneland Conference, so I cannot say they were one of the toughest wrestling schools in the region.  He also did not have a state champ until 4 years ago.  I would have to give much more credit to  Pendoski (very little), Leroy Vega(moderate amount of credit), and Bill Hawkins(A LOT OF CREDIT) for all of the success that Vlink has had lately.  He also has been coaching since 1979, and got his first state champ 4 years ago.  I personally do not believe that he is that great of a coach, but I certainly have a bias also.

Predictions:

106: peek, frey, burns, Trent

113: Escobedo, freestone, Davidson, coach

120: Logsdon, white, isabell, eiring

126: Torres, smith, Trent, ishmael

132: spence, Frey, king, Dan

138: roach, Kelly, rudynski, young

145: thorn, katsafaros, Escobedo, hiler

152: katsafaros, Robbins, Guerrero, young

160: Espinosa, jones, stachowski, majchrzak

170: Eldridge, dobkins, Jensen, wright

182: Schroeder, Ibarra, jones, wajda

195: standifer, ponda, coffinger, brown

220: Williams, stanish, ayers, Blackburn

285: Brock, short, mullican, dolezai

College and high school are not the same scoring.

I believe this is what it is.

Tournament Scoring

2 team advancement points shall be scored for each match won in the champoinship bracket, except for the final first-place match. If a wrestler receives a bye in a round where at least one match is wrestled, he shall be awarded 2 advancement points for that bye if he wins his next match after the bye.

1 team advancement point shall be scored for each match won in the consolation elimination, except for the final third and fifth place matches. A wrestler who has received a bye in a consolation round where at least one match is wrestled shall receive one advancement point for that bye if he wins his next match after the bye.

2 additonal points for each match won by default, disqualification, fall, or forfeit.

1 1/2 points for each match won by technical fall.

1 additional point for each match won by major decision.

Placement points:

Tournament scoring 4 places: 14-10-7-4

-http://www.wvmat.com/overview.htm

182- Morgan Kral mdec Vonte Jones (P) 4-0

195- Langbend mdec Tyler Albee (P) 8-0

220- Kral pin Travis Williams (P) 14-0

285- Swope dec Chris Brock 2-1 17-0 Ref decided he was going to decide the match with :06 left in the match and called stalling.

106- Peek (P) wbff 17-6

113-Darden Schurg mdec Luis Escobedo 11-2    21-6

120-Josh Fuqua tfall Logsdon 15-0. 26-6

126-                       Dec Torres 5-3  29-6

132- Jason Spence dec Halsted 5-1 29-9

138- Danny Roach dec Burlison 5-2 29-12

145- Tsirtsis pins Delgado 35-12

152- Fuqua dec Thorn 4-0. 38-12

160- Schurg mdec Espinosa 12-4. 42-12

170-              Dec wright 8-4 45-12

I saw this this weekend at Northmont. Delphi forfeited @182 then Portage forfeited right back @195. I didn't understand the strategy on Delphi's part.

 

 

And then the Delphi coaching staff proceeded to call the Portage coaching staff cowards for not wrestling the #1 kid in the state.

Also the kid that Portage forfeited for went 0-6 at the tournament, wrestling Lynde would not have  benefitted either team.

We can I go to watach it live????

If the question is where, then go here.

Video Coverage

Not that this is a huge problem but Leroy Vega is Portage's head coach starting this season.  Pat stepped down to an assitant coach.

Portage

Head Coach - Leroy Vega

http://chestertontribune.com/Sports/trojan_wrestlers_fall_at_portage.htm

Little late, but oh well.

Portage vs. Chesterton

Merrillville vs. Valpo

Are there going to be IHSAA officials at this event?