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For anyone who wants to go through the effort, these were the pools: A. Braxton County Capital Ravenswood Roane County Williamstown B. Calhoun County Fairmont Senior Greenbrier West Liberty-Harrison Poca So, when viewing individual placewinners, it can be deduced that all wrestlers from the same poo...

To answer Bearhugger's assumptions: 1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Yes, one or the other. Complete head to head results would reveal which,.. but I'll leave reporting those to the respective schools. Regarding these dual match scores that get posted, this is not a true duals tournament. It is an individual pool t...

We all bring what we have on that day and try to put our best foot forward. Most teams aren't 100% with their line-ups at this point. There were more than one or two good teams in this tournament. Braxton put 8 in the championship finals and placed all 13 starters. Perhaps the best thing to do is gi...

Results were sent to WVMat. I'm sure they'll be posted soon. Team scores and individual placement is what you'll get. If teams wish to post individual head-to-head results, they should go right ahead. Braxton County won the tournament. One single scoring error I found this morning inadvertently awar...

Coaches: Due to at least one school being cancelled today, the weights will be BASE + 1.

Coach Jarvis
Roane County

The field is set for the December 14, 2019 Garry Bender Raider Cup to be hosted at Roane County High School. We look forward to a great day of competition and sportsmanship. Participating teams: Roane County, Braxton County, Ravenswood, Greenbrier West, Fairmont Senior, Liberty-Harrison, Williamstow...

Jan 22 quad @ Roane is now set. Roane County, Calhoun County, Tyler Consolidated, and Logan. Weigh-in 5:00pm. Wrestling 6:00pm.

1 team is needed for a Tri match on Jan 22. Hosted at Roane County w/Tyler Consolidated. 5:00pm weigh-in. 6:00pm start. Contact Coach Jarvis at 304-761-0161 or at hjarvis@k12.wv.us.

Since I started this line of questioning, let me say, I think it's a good thing to have options. Maybe a coach would like to make a scheduling adjustment based on the age of his wrestlers,.. or perhaps he wants to guard against board policies that discourage 2-day events that require overnight stays...

I have taken my team to the WSAZ several times. We've actually done well in it on a few occasions- better than most, I'd say,.. however, it does have it's own set of headaches. It is a kind of showcase, particularly if you have some spectacular kids that should meet their A/AA/AAA counterparts, but ...

I have almost 30 years experience coaching at the high school and middle school levels, so I've seen some changes come and go. I have a couple observations/opinions. I respect others' right to disagree. 1. Upper weight classes have gotten some relief and have had a couple classes added, compared to ...

The 2019 Garry Bender Raider Cup will be held on December 14, 2019. The following teams are entered: Braxton County, Calhoun County, Fairmont Senior, Greenbrier West, Liberty-Harrison, Poca, Ravenswood, Roane County, Williamstown, Winfield. If one of these listed teams knows they will NOT be coming ...

In my opinion, the bottom man should almost never be called for stalling in the situation you describe. Sticking in both boots and pressuring hips to the mat is a good start, but if the top man stops improving his position and does not make attempts to turn, then he needs to get a boot out and try s...

Congratulations on 150. A tough and talented young man.

Congratulations. Those of us in the sport appreciate how difficult it can be to reach that number. It doesn't come easy or often. You have been truly impressive on the mat. I wish you the best.

Congratulations to Jake Whiting of Roane County on his 150th career win at the Mountaineer Match-up.

One could make the argument that reducing the size of these tournaments may not be a bad thing. If enough teams decided to break off, we could see 2 or 3 new tournaments pop up around the state every weekend, so teams and fans could have more choices about where to go. Other schools could host and h...

You might also try contacting your coach who probably reported the results, because you mentioned the name Riggs, and I don't think that team has anyone by that name. The name reported on the results page isn't quite right either, because I think it's the kid's first name. Just look at other results...

Not to pick a side or stir it up any further, but I think it's important to point out, since the number of byes is being mentioned, that these byes are necessary. Due to the number of teams and even using a special bracket, I think 10 or 11 is the magic number of wrestlers. On a 16-man bracket, 10 w...

I can see Panther_coach's point that it should make sense to count a 6-way round robin or less as only 1 weigh-in, based on the fact that we can only wrestle 5 times in one day anyway, however, by suggesting a dual or tri count as .5 weigh-ins, I was trying to provide additional incentive to schedul...

Consider the following an opinion piece: Our current system of rules regarding how we count weigh-ins in this state has caused many problems: 1) Reluctance to schedule duals and tris. 2) Increased travel with fewer home events for each of us. 3) Increased tournament size, which requires 2 days and m...

We would like to thank all the teams, fans, and volunteers who helped to make our 2018 Garry Bender Raider Cup tournament a success. We will try to improve upon it where we can. Special thanks to Coach Bender for taking part. There are some important points I'd like to make note of: 1. A couple team...

Well, they would earn their way into the bracket just like the other actual qualifiers this way. To draw a 5th place kid in randomly seems strange to me. The pill just determines bracket position once they qualify- we have never drawn them into the state tournament bracket by pill. I have no idea ho...

Sounds to me like we'd just use "seeding" criteria to decide the one who gets in- head-to-head, common opponent, etc. Generally, overall record is a little farther down the list for obvious reasons. In most cases, I think it would not be difficult to determine. After chosen, I would imagin...

December 8, 2018 Garry Bender Raider Cup Roane County High School Projected Teams: Roane County, Greenbrier West, Braxton County, Williamstown, Ravenswood, Calhoun County, Winfield, Liberty Harrison, Fairmont Senior, Logan, Mingo Central Some of these schools have not yet confirmed. This will be a d...

Funny thing how both the coach and the wrestler always seems to know when the scoreboard shows 1 point LESS than they're supposed to have. Also, I don't know many experienced officials who can't easily recount the scoring exchange of a 5-2 match. They are accustomed to going to the table to clarify ...

We can't have complete control of fan behavior, but we can have some influence. I won't name individuals or teams, but I saw several instances of good sportsmanship. Unfortunately, there was too much non-sense going on too. Throwing temper tantrums can't be tolerated. Throwing headgear, yanking down...

I think the officiating at the A-AA Region 2 Tournament was outstanding. I saw very little that a person could have complained about. Good job to those 4 men.

Congratulations for reaching this milestone. This is impressive, especially considering the season-ending injury in mid-January last year. Good luck at the state tournament.

And it's one of those unfortunate things where, when you do everything right, you can still get skin infections. Many people are carriers, walking around with it, and never show signs themselves. It seems a wrestler's skin is always scuffed and compromised, so they are susceptible. Contagious condit...