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Joel Pippenger-Westview High School

In fact the buggy did get stuck in the snow!  Seriously, our AD didn't get the results in until late.  Due to all the cancellations we hosted the sectional immediately followed by 4 different basketball games.  Crazy day in Emmatown!

NECC has been cancelled and will not be made up.  Teams are now focusing on this weekends sectional, good luck to everyone in their preparation.

Westview Sectional seeding will not be done until Thursday night.  NECC tournament has been rescheduled for Tues/Wed. night (unless mother nature says otherwise). 

We will run 4 mats, 3 for varsity competition and 1 for all JV.  Teams are Westview, Angola, West Noble, Eastside, LaVille, and John Glenn.  There will be 5 matches to wrestle.

All this information must come from your athletic director now.  Doesn't that make things easier!?

I remember watching Dan Severn beat the pulp out of Royce Gracie in ufc 3 or 4 before being submitted after like 16 minutes. So, it doesn't surprise me they didn't want the toughest athletes in sport messing up there promotion for BJJ.

As a wrestling guy myself, I will agree with everyone that when entering MMA as it is today, wrestling is the best base.  However, I have trained with the Gracies on many occasions.  What many people don't know, is that Rorion Gracie (eldest son of Helio) developed the original UFC and yes-it was a way to showcase Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.  However, Helio's sons decided to choose Royce, the smallest of the boys, to represent the family and show how even a smaller, less powerful jiu-jitsu practicioner could defeat a larger, stronger opponent.  If the Gracies wanted to truely stack the deck against the field they would have chosen Rickson to represent Gracie Jiu-Jitsu in the UFC tournaments.  Just some food for thought.

Compiling that list showed extreme dedication or just a passion to get wrestling season underway.  Nice effort by the way....there will be a ton of kids moving around though.  We have kids who have will have moves 3 weight classes!

He (Ramos) as well as all the Iowa fans thought all Steiber did was stall. Ramos did a little impression of it after he got in Steibers face.

 

I was sitting right down by mat1  Steiber, after blocking about 8 attempts in the last 15 seconds, said to Ramos several times, "that's it, that's it"  as he stuffed each shot.  I'm guessing that's what upset him and got the reaction after the match.

We did hotwire  a couple weeks ago, got rooms at the Sheraton downtown for $85 a night.  Also used priceline in the past, can pick the exact hotel but the general area.  3x got the university place for under $100, it was a haul from Conseco but had free shuttle service going all day long.

Pulling out bleachers for basketball games....yep I just said that!  Worst thing ever!!!