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Yes, Amy Alvaro from Madonna was the very first female ever to qualify for the state tournament in any division. I'm not sure whether or not she holds the distinction of being the first female ever to wrestle at the OVAC.

I take full responsibility for that, Mike. And I even knew better. I know Princeton is a AAA team. I made a mistake and it will be fixed by next week's rankings.

I've already apologized to Princeton's coach, and I'll publicly apologize to Connor on this forum.

Wade has a 15-2 varsity level record (9 pins), and a 22-2 record (15 pins) overall, which includes exhibitions and JV-level matches such as the PowerAde tournament. :) Looking forward to this year's OVAC. Due to helping Doc out some, I'm behind on my notes for the OVAC writeups, but I'll get them ca...

Yes, results are up, although in my haste to get the results into a waiting newspaper, I mistakenly copied and pasted Zach Frazier’s name in for Louden Haga’s in the results.

I’ve sent Doc an email asking him to correct it, and I’ve already apologized on South’s Facebook page.

I should have put the exhibition match with the overall score, but some aggravating circumstances arose last night unrelated to wrestling, and it was kind of a frantic evening. I’ll try to get an updated result with the exhibition sent to Doc.

According to the scorebook picture the matmaids sent me, Buckalew from South officially won with a forfeit, but Stevens pinned Buckalew in the exhibition match. I asked them to get clarification and have the official sign off. They said he signed off on the 78-6 score. Hope this clears things up!

Congratulations to middle school placers Matthew Dolan (7th place) and Ayden Morris (8th place). Great job, boys!

Congratulations to Brayden Roberts, the USMC Fargo Cadet Greco Champion at 138!! Way to go, Brayden!

Takedowns: Braxton - 94; Opponents - 0 Escapes: Braxton - 8; Opponents - 42 Reversals: Braxton - 6; Opponents - 0 2Pt Nearfalls: Braxton - 19; Opponents - 0 3Pt Nearfalls: Braxton - 25; Opponents - 0 4Pt Nearfalls: Braxton - 0; Opponents - 0 1Pt Penalties: Braxton - 6; Opponents - 2 (Haynes/Ripley;...

I received them and they're PERFECT! Thank you so much!

Does anyone have a picture of Peyton Hall either by himself or holding his MOW award? The SSAC lined all three MOW's up together, and that photo turned out really nice, but I need to have separate photos for the state tournament photos page on this site. If you can help me out, please email the phot...

I'm hoping someone from Madonna can help us out. Neither Action Images nor I got a photo of Coach Lesho to post with the state tournament photos. If anyone has a photo of him with his award, or even a photo of him without the award, can you email it to me at sullivj2@ohio.edu please? I will give you...

They're posted now, and they're great! I just placed a rather large order.

Takedowns: Braxton - 94; Opponents - 0 Escapes: Braxton - 8; Opponents - 42 Reversals: Braxton - 6; Opponents - 0 2Pt Nearfalls: Braxton - 19; Opponents - 0 3Pt Nearfalls: Braxton - 25; Opponents - 0 4Pt Nearfalls: Braxton - 0; Opponents - 0 1Pt Penalties: Braxton - 6; Opponents - 2 (Haynes/Ripley; ...

What a great post, Wil! I’m the aunt of a currently deployed Marine and the former stepmom of an Iraq war vet. Those who serve or have served in the military have my utmost respect and gratitude. Thank you so much for your service, and please stay safe! You can believe me when I say i’ll pray for Go...

107.1 WNUS (Parkersburg listening area) will also be broadcasting the finals live. They always interview the champions from Wood County and surrounding areas.

For anyone outside the listening area who might want to stream the broadcast, you can find it at https://107nus.iheart.com/

69fan is correct. If you use AAA 106 as an example, the losers in bouts 1 and 2 will go straight across to bout 169. Then, the losers in the quarterfinals cross brackets: Loser in bout 113 will wrestle in bout 227 Loser in bout 114 will wrestle in bout 228 Loser in bout 115 will wrestle in bout 225 ...

Boxer, you da man! (Or woman, if the case may be. )

Davis lost by fall to Xander Whitehurst from Christiansburg at the Holiday Hammer Classic in December. Whitehurst is the #3-ranked wrestler in Virginia at 145.

So heartbreaking and disappointing. I'm sure this won't be the last we hear from John. Best of luck to you in college, John!

Geoswaff, I say absolutely! :D I've been with the South program many years, and some of my favorite memories come from statements made by fans from other schools who hated South. Probably my favorite memory of all is from the 90's. South was in hot contention at the state tournament with another tea...

Please accept my apologies for overlooking that Ryan Williams beat Tanner Ball. I see that he beat him 3-2 at the MSAC. I take full responsibility for that, as I was helping Doc out at the last minute so he could get the individual rankings out. I totally missed it, and I'll make sure we get it corr...

Doc is giving the coaches until 7:00 p.m. to contribute/vote. Of course if there are any last minute suggestions, the rankings will have to be analyzed and adjusted if necessary. I'm not sure how long it will take him to actually get everything formatted to html and posted.

Since the regional alignment does not apply to all high school sports in West Virginia, I TOTALLY agree that since football and swimming don't follow the regional alignment, a very strong case could be made for regional realignment of wrestling.

ZZChooseTop is correct. My niece swims for South. South is in Region 1, and their regional swim meet was at Brooke last weekend. (Bear with me while I share a side story...) Her relay team qualified for next week's state swim meet, but it's bittersweet for her. Her brother is a United States Marine,...

I'll weigh in on the OVAC/WSAZ 195-pound weight class. A match between Petersburg's Jackson Moomau (WSAZ) and Martins Ferry's Dalton Hoover (OVAC) would be one for the ages in my opinion. Most of us know how tough Moomau is. Hoover finished as an Ohio Division III state runner-up his sophomore year ...

Actually, South is down to 23 wrestlers (I believe), and two of them are injured (Mikey Shamblin all year and Hunter Daniel just recently). Something that has worked well for us is that I ask the matmaids to text me a photo of the book after each dual match or after they've filled up a page at a tou...

Doc sent the suggested rankings to the Coaches' Forum last night for a Thursday night release. (Thank you, Aaacoach49 for your quick input!) I encourage those of you who are awaiting the rankings to ask your team's coach to review the rankings and request changes based on results, not intuition, as ...

Hi Boxer,

Thanks for posting and letting us know!

Here’s the link:
http://www.journal-news.net/sports/loca ... in-record/

Again, congratulations, Davy. What an accomplishment!

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