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what was the final count on the jeff regional advancing to state? i just paid attention to the jeff sectional and didn't see the southridge kids much besides kendle. kendle wrestled better than anyone from that regional. i loved his intensity and attitude out there. he wanted to win! weekly and shepherd looked good for jeff. browner tried his best against stein but just ran into a great wrestler at the wrong time. smith lost a tough one on what i believe to be a poorly officiated match. ref was a little to fired up. they were one of the only teams from the regional that looked like they were ready to take it to someone. sampson from new washington impressed me getting 3rd. did not see him beating waddell like he did. i think he could place with the right draw. what happened to floyd? they looked lost on the mat. really expected them to get a couple through. martin made it. not the same magic as last year but he will be representing new albany at the big one. kid goes hard. congrats to all thoset that made it. look forward to watching you next weekend.

these are in order! 103: hall, vanhook, schroeder, shepherd 112: kuhn, boomsma, kendle, smith 119: moody, molloy, miller, reiker 125: raley, judy, reiker, hoehn 130: miracle, martin, schofield, browner 135: barlow, weekly, rassbach, rueger 140: bealmer, milton, salyer, montgomery 145: welch, moberly, sims, sampson 152: welch, richey, mappes, parrish 160: reese, kolb, terrell, fudurick 171: weiss, stein, boots, brandt 189: rosebrock, eads, voges, bass 215: froehlick, wooding, vandeventer, adams 285: daugherty, hammelman, vandeman, jenkins

okay southridge sectional, you let me down. i predicted you would have a better showing. must have been the trip over in bad weather. jeff boys prove they're the team to beat east of evansville and south of bloomington. google has an app for that if you're confused. they down right made some of the competition look bad. don't expect them to roll over next week because the competition will be a bit more .... competitive. had a few great matches but this weekend was a lot like last weekend. mostly jeff sectional rematches with a big one going the other way. big observation was endurance. jeff sectional outlasted southridge. southridge guys were tough early on and had me a little worried. speaking of let downs... like donnie baker never making his preditions... floyd only having one in the finals. jeff has assumed the role of bmoc for the time being, at least another year. i enjoyed watching them battle jeff and na over the years. somewhat anticlimatic without them in the mix. until then, we can all speculate in the hospitality rooms if floyd exporting their best coaches to KY is a good strategy. we now know who our state reps will be come next saturday. moberly. i stuck with him and he about stuck sampson. that kid is state bound. if i had one lock, he is it. weekly. i hope the cakewalk in the last two weeks does not hurt him next week. the kid is tough. rickman. didn't buy in until today. destroyed newcomb in the finals. handled the floyd kid easily. the jasper kid has a descent shot at heavyweight. that weight is impossible to predict.... these guys have a shot... i want browner to go, but he might have the toughest weight class. he will have to win in an underdog match to make it i think. shepherd. tough to get out. drawl may decide it. smith. needs to push the action more. doesn't impress me in the big matches. miller. martin. scrappy kid and intense. witt. looks great except for martin. could get on a role. sampson. i think moberly delivered the knockout punch this weekend. i'm sure theres more i'm missing. brackets coming out will solve a lot of it. jeff ran a good tournament for 2 weeks. kids all wrestled hard and wish them the best next weekend.... even my southridge friends

especially seeing browner getting beat. going to be tough to place in the top 4 there. i still think a couple will get through somewhere. biggest problem may be people getting to jeff this weekend with a forecast of snow. which teams will have trouble getting there??? things usually work out weather wise it seems. i just hope jeff didn't schedule a home basketball game saturday night

bunch of comedians on here.

jeff laid the hammer down on fc. order of teams: mater dei castle jeff jasper i love watching castle but i'm not sure if they can knock mater dei off again. mater dei is getting better every week. jeff is really good but i don't think they are as solid top to bottom.

103 shepherd (jeff) lahue (cory) happel (fc) concannon (m) 112 kendle (pc) smith (jeff) thomas(fc) echert (j) 119 miller (jeff) meenach(nw) riley(p) olinger (fp) 125 chambers(j) springer(cory) lunsford(pc) marler (na) 130 witt (fc) byrer (nk) martin (na) simpson (jeff) 135 weekly (jeff) denny (fc) beaman(nk) jones (s) 140 rickman (na) newcomb(ch) denny (fc) harder(j) 145 moberly (fc) sampson (nw) schwenk (j) ingram (s) 152 golembeski (pr) daughtery (char)ackerman(j) foster (fc) 160 songer (s) jones (j) marlin (jeff) hall (char) 171 browner (jeff) kreilein (j) bowen (jeff) faulkenburg (fc) 189 voges (fp) bowen (jeff) tucker (j) baker (p) 215 pratt (jeff) manning (pc) dewitt (cory) sharp (fc) 285 jenkins (j) hoke (na) curtley (jeff) veatch (s) advance 33 jeff 23 southridge champs 9 jeff 5 southridge jeffersonville advances 10 with 5 champs jasper 9 floyd 9 i don't see many upsets happening here. a lot of the close rematches may go the other way as they were very close the first time and it seems like it is hard to keep beating the same person in consecutive weekends. i sense a donniebaker update soon...

it was 2-0. i watched this match pretty closely since i had made a strong prediction about it! not much action in the first. sampson rode moberly the entire 2nd period sampson got a quick reversal in the 3rd and rode moberly out. sampson really surprised me with his control. i think you'll see both looking for the takedown next time. they looked timid of each other in the first trying to feel each other out. this was one of the few weights that had a true battle in the final. you will see them in the finals at regional for sure.

i thought we would dominate and get all 14 though and win by 100 points ;D (i was joking during my earlier post) yea, jeff pretty much controlled the thing. every dog has its day.... or two

what did he do? i've never seen him do anything unsportsman like before

any thoughts on the jeff sectional? i don't know what to think. jeff was not as dominate as i thought they would be in losing some matches that they normally win. weekly, browner and shepherd both looked very tough. floyd did not get as many in the finals as i thought and i think they only had 1 champ. i was wrong about sampson. he controlled moberly at 145. it will be interesting to see that rematch! stotridge was injured so it was unfortunate he could not make a run his senior year. martin proved he is money in the tournament. there are a lot of young wrestlers moving onto regionals. hopefully we can outwrestle the southridge sectional and do well at semi-state. not sure who the state qualifier will be from this sectional though. i think weekly and shepherd looked the best. there were some exciting overtime matches. heavyweight and 140 stood out.

i used to get a little offended when people said the jeffersonville sectional was not very strong. after watching today, it was confirmed. there were some very bad matches today 1-2 and 3-4 matches.

i respect all of the local teams because they are working with young men so i dont want to disrespect anyone but here are the facts. jeff has had more kids and a better team than new albany for a while now. jeff beat the pants off floyd last year in hhc and sectionals with kids that had been in the floyd system since elementary school. most of jeffs were recent to the sport. who sent a kid farthest in the state tournament last year? you can't look at 25 years of history and say the present doesn't count. i don't see where these kids would be better off in the other schools (and they are good wrestling schools) when they can't beat jeff at this time. who works harder than dstruck and his staff at getting kids out and developing them into wrestlers?? believe me, there is more work to that job than teaching a pinning combination. they are also taught how to be men (such as treating your opponents and other coaches with respect, win or lose) class and character. would you be willing to sacrifice your time to help someone that needs it more than you? if not, then don't post your trash on here and insult an entire group because you have beef with a couple of people.

whoosier daddy..... big question is after reading the newspapers the past few weeks, can those floyd boys start that tradition again that they had for so many years or is jeff the new big dog in town??

i'm not sure we will have any state placers this year. here are the best chances for them though browner stotridge witt weekly moberly sampson - depending on which way the 145 battle goes getting to friday night is a good possibility but because of the competition level at semi-state i don't see them placing in the top 2 at semi-state. i sure would like to see it though. not the same this year without donnie baker and c-red to get the discussions going....