Inigo lost his first match this morning. He was trailing 6-2 in the second and was pinned by the Eastern Regional Champion from Orange high school.
1st Round cons.
Inigo made short work of his opponent from CB Aycock with a 1st period pin. We’re going to hang arround and watch the quater finals to see who we’ll be wrestling in the morning.
What a day…..Congratulations to Inigo Hughes for qualifying for the State Tournament next week in Greensboro. Inigo pulled off an overtime win vs. a Tuscola wrestler and finished 4th in the tournament.
I’d also like to congratulate other members of the Big South who will be representing our conference next week at State.
Josh Smith 103 – Regional Champion Ashbrook
Hunter Dunn 103- South Point
Brandon Cagle 119 -South Point
Ash Davis 125 – South Point
Ali Charles 135 – Ashbrook
Darius Stocks 125- Hunter Huss
Josh Clary 140 -Crest
Patrick Houser 145 – Crest
Cody Hendren 160 – Hunter Huss
Chase Warren 189 – Ashbrook
Michael “Mikey” Dotterer 215 – Ashbrook
If I left anyone out I’m truly sorry. I’m just going off what I could remember off the top of my head. Please leave a comment if I forgot someone.
This weekend had it’s share of good, bad, and ugly and one thing is for certain……. It was long, I’m tired as hell, and I’m going to bed.
Check back next Friday during the day for updates on the NCHSAA State Wrestling Championships.
two wrestlers left standing……
Inigo Hughes, and James Freeman remain in the tournament. One win will get Inigo into 3rd and 4th placement match. James needs two.
It was a long night…..
After 3 rounds of wrestling we still have 8 of 9 wrestlers in the tournament. The team scores were only announced one time after the conclusion of the 1st round and we were in 15th place.
Inigo Hughes stands alone in the championships and wrestles in the 1st round against the 189 from Freedom.
Dylan Moses lost in overtime in the quater finals to a St. Stephens wrestler. James Freeman was pinned by a Fred T. Foard wrestler also in the quaters.
In the 1st round of consolations Bret Edwards pinned the Crest 112 with time expiring in the 3rd period. Jordan Galyan won convincingly vs a Forestview wrestler. Aaron Brooks was beaten in overtime by the 145 from North Buncombe. Leonel Martell was losing by 12 and pulled off a defensive pin vs an Enka wrestler, Collin Johnson won 7-1 vs an RS Central wrestler and Cody Willett won vs. a the 215 of Franklin High.
Weigh-ins are at 8:30am and it’s going to be a long day for the boys. I’ll post an update sometime saturday before lunch time.
Through the First round winners are
140- Dylan Moses
171- James Freeman
189- Inigo Hughes
Brett Edwards, Jordan Galyan, Aaron Brooks, Leonel Martell, and Cody Willett in the consolation bracket.
Two more rounds tonight, and no team score available yet.
Next update at the conclusion of the next rounds.
Now that the Conference season and tournament is over with and we will begin to focus individually on the regional tournament and qualifying for the state tournament, I thought I’d take a look back at the last 2 months and share my thoughts on the NEW Big South 3A Conference.
What difference a year makes. Throughout the last decade the Big South was dominated by East Gaston High School, having won 8 of 9 Conference Championships during their tenure in the Conference, basically owning their conference rival…..which was us. North Gaston won only one Conference Championship in that time in the 2007-08 Season. The previous decade (1990-1999) We were in the old Southwestern 3A Conference and pretty much owned our conference rival of Kings Mountain.
Will anyone own the next decade? Well I certainly hope that put ourselves in a position to do so, but it will indeed be a tall order to fill. The first Conference Champion of the NEW Big South is Crest in 09-10. They went 6-0 but I wouldn’t say they dominated. I think domination is an average margin of victory of about 20 points. However they are the champions and no one can take that away from them. Crest is a team that hasn’t won a conference championship in 13 years, and they have a young coach who knows what he’s doing which now makes them a threat again next season. Kings Mountain, Huss, and Ashbrook are all well coached and have phenomenal athletes which allows them to compete at a high level year in and year out, and if the student athletes at South Point and Forestview EVER took wrestling as serious as they did other sports what kind of noise could they make?
Where does that leave us??? Well for this year it leaves us in 3rd place with a lot of work to do, but to be honest I don’t think I’ve ever had as much fun without winning it all as I did this year. I feel we over achieved this year in many ways and our future looks very bright. In a starting line up of 13 (since we had to forfeit 103 all year) we return 10. Ten guys who saw how exciting it can be to be in the race for a Conference championship and I think those ten have realized what it takes to compete and be successful at that level. Our season had it’s thrills of victory and its agonies of defeat and we took all of them in stride and kept moving forward, and for that I’m proud.
As for the conference tournament, I don’t think we had our best day. Some of the guys wrestled really hard and some it really didn’t look like they were there mentally. I really believe if 3 or 4 matches go the other way we would have been right there in the hunt going into the finals. But whats done is done and it is over. Congratulations to Bret Edwards, Jordan Galyan, Dylan Moses, Aaron Brooks, and Inigo Hughes on being All-Conference wrestlers, and thank you to ANYONE who reads this who had something to do with our team this season. Weather you’re a parent, or worked concessions, or kept score, or did a hospitality room, or drove a bus, rolled out a mat, or just came to match and supported us. Thank you very much.