Regionals are tomorrow morning - which means that tomorrow is the beginning of the end of the season. There are only 4 more Saturdays of competition - if everything goes the way we feel it should and the way we hope. So before we get to tomorrow, I wanted to recap the season, from both an individual standpoint and team standpoint. If you like statistics, you're in for a treat!
JV won JV Conference - by a lot. Click to see how dominant they were!
Alumni had a winning record on the collegiate level this week - see who picked up the wins!
It's Regional week! Check out an early preview, rankings, etc. A more detailed one comes later this week!
I'm using lots of exclamation points because this is the start of the most exciting part of the year!
Seven. Not just a great movie, nor the great name that George Costanza would have given his child, but also the number of individual champions crowned at the SWSC Open for the Porters.
Click for this week's post - it's far less ridiculous than this little excerpt!
Friday night and Saturday, Lockport took place in the first ever SWSC Open (you read that correctly, more on it in a bit). With seven individual champions and twelve of fourteen wrestlers placing in the top five at their weight class, Lockport cruised to the team title with 290 points, well past Sandburg, who finished in second place with 217.5 points.
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We're 25-0 on Varsity, the JV team won "JV State" this past weekend, and the Freshman team ended their season with a win at the GBN Freshman Invite. What a great week!
Varsity has conference this weekend, and our alumni had a pretty great week this week too - that's why Mr. Brad Johnson gets the header! (Also, that photo is definitely from the NDSU dual back in November but if the OU website can use it, so can I. Photo credit: the unnamed person who took said photo).
All that and more, this week, just click here!
Saturday morning, the top-ranked Porters traveled to Neuqua Vally for the annual mega-dual that we alternate hosting, and Lockport came away with 3 dual victories on the day. The dual victories push the team record to a perfect 25-0 on the season thus far. Lockport defeated the host, Neuqua Valley, by a score of 59-12 before dismantling Metea Valley, 65-6, in the second dual. In the final dual of the day, the Porters took down 13th ranked Barrington by a final score of 50-21
Lockport traveled to Frankfort on Thursday night to take on Lincoln-Way East in the final conference dual meet of the season. The Porters came out fast and hard, and kept the pace up throughout the dual, winning the first 12 matches in a row en route to a 64-9 victory over the Griffins. With the win, Lockport clinched the SWSC Blue Division Championship, and pushed their record on the season to a perfect 22-0.
We're starting to head into the final part of the season at this point, so you should read all about our 5th place team finish at Cheesehead, what awaits us in the coming week, and what's going on at our lower levels. Plus, find out what alumni won national team titles this week, and what alumni had a rather big surprise on the mat!
Abdullah Assaf lead Lockport to a 5th place finish at the Cheesehead with his 132-pound championship. In the most grinding event of the season for any team, where most wrestlers see at least six matches, the Porters had seven other wrestlers finish in the top 8 in their weight class. Click for more details!
If that picture doesn't get you to click, nothing will.
First big individual tournament of the high school season is out of the way. The Porters finished in 3rd at the POWERade, considered the second toughest tournament in the nation, despite a few underwhelming performances, but on the strength of some standout performances as well. Lockport fell to third by a single point. This week, Lockport will be up in Kaukana, WI, to participate in the Cheesehead tournament. Recap and information on those are within, as is a recap of the action our Alumni saw this past week. Click to get more!
Thursday and Friday, December 30 and 31, The Lockport Porters wrestling team took place in the prestigious POWERade Wrestling Tournament, rated as the 2nd hardest tournament in the nation for the 2016-2017 season. Lockport's team performance, while clearly an underachievement compared to expectations, still resulted in five individual placewinners. This gave the Porters 128 points, falling just one point shy of the 2nd place team, but a hefty 33 points behind the champions.
Click to get a recap of the past week's events for our wrestlers as well as our collegiate alumni. We've added a mini-preview for the alumni for this week as well - two big Division I tournaments have the potential to have all of our DI wrestlers active this week. Also, we have a quick high school update and preview for this week, which is all about the Powerade!
On Thursday evening, Lockport's home dual meet schedule came to an end. It was a bit of an early date for senior night, with six weeks remaining until regionals. The Porters, putting a senior-heavy lineup on the mat, still dominated the dual, earning a 61-9 victory over conference opponent Stagg.
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On Thursday evening, Lockport hosted DeKalb High School and came away with its 20th win of the season, defeating the Barbs by a final score of 60-7. Lockport posted a 12-2 record on the night, including 3 wins by fall and four by technical fall.
One more week down, three more wins. Lockport now has an 18-0 record on the season, and looks poised to add two more over the course of the week.
Click to get these details and more... including a recap of the results of last week and on how our alumni have fared.
The 2nd ranked Lockport wrestling team took to the mat twice in the past three days and came away with two more wins, pushing the overall team record to 19-0 on the season. On Thursday, Lockport took out #9 Carl Sandburg by a 43-22 score, although the dual felt much closer than the score indicates. On Saturday morning, while Homer Jr. High School was hosting its annual tournament in the Lockport East Field House, Lockport commandeered a corner mat to host Fremd High School in a dual, defeating them 69-6.
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The Lockport Township High School wrestling team had a new "first" on Thursday night - wrestling on an auditorium stage. The Porters were hosted by Lincoln-Way West for their annual "Singlets on the Stage" event, a fantastic showcase of talent in an extraordinarily unique environment. The Porters, ranked 2nd in the state and 20th in the nation entering the dual, came out victorious by a wide margin, earning a 40-18 victory over the 5th ranked Warriors.
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TUESDAY! And Thursday. And Saturday. Those are the days we wrestle this week, and the days you should be there to watch - ESPECIALLY on Tuesday at Lincoln-Way West! Click to get these details and more... including a recap of the results of last week and on how our alumni have fared.
The 2nd ranked Lockport Porters wrestling team took the mat Saturday morning to square off against two top-20 teams in Illinois, and came away with two wins, defeating #19 Lyons Township 48-24 and #11 Wheaton North 40-19. With each team having a handful of ranked individuals, there were great matchups all around.
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Friday night, Lockport hosted Homewood-Flossmoor at Central Campus. Taking place under the spotlight, the meet was originally slated to be Senior Night, but a rash of injuries and illness caused that recognition to be postponed to a later date. The wrestlers who were still able to roll around came out and dominated, winning the first twelve matches of the dual en route to a 68-12 victory.
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