Last Wednesday through Saturday, Tulsa was the home of the Junior National Duals. Coming off of a Cadet National Freestyle Title, Team Illinois had high expectations in the duals, but came up a bit short, finishing in second place in both Greco and Freestyle. While we did not have any coaches working with the Junior teams, we had three wrestlers participating in the duals: Anthony Molton, Matt Ramos, and Shayne Oster.
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This blog will be a little different from most where we just report on the tournaments. This week Illinois (and a bunch of Lockport kids) competed in the Cadet Greco and Freestyle National Dual Championships in York, PA. Each of these teams consisted of 27 of the top kids in the state born in 2000 and 2001 to represent Illinois in 17 weight classes of 7 dual meets in each event (14 total) Many of these 27 wrestled both tournaments so they had a 4 day grind.
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This past weekend, six current Lockport wrestlers and one alumni travelled to Akron, Ohio, to compete in the United World Wrestling Cadet and University Nationals. Three of these seven wrestlers managed to place in the top eight at their weight classes, garnering themselves All-American status.
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This past weekend a group travelled to Kalamazoo, MI to compete at USA Wrestling's Central Regional. These regionals are open events where the top 4 placers qualify for Cadet and Junior Nationals in Fargo. Freestyle was wrestled on Saturday and Greco on Sunday...
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There are several big events in the wrestling offseason, but they all focus on the Olympic Styles Freestyle and Greco Roman. These two styles are different than the Folkstyle we do during the high school season. . .
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A preview for our alumni competing at the collegiate level today. Apologies this is late, as wrestling has already begun, but click here to get more information on our three collegiate wrestlers competing this weekend!
This past Saturday, the Lockport Porters wrestling team returned home from Bloomington with it’s best trophy to date – a third-place trophy from IHSA Dual Team State Tournament, following a 42-25 victory over Providence Catholic High School in the third-place dual. This is the wrestling program’s second trophy in as many years, after taking home a fourth-place trophy last season.
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Good luck to our wrestlers competing at the IHSA Dual Team State Tournament today!!!
Last day of your season - let's make the most of it!
On paper, 6th ranked Lockport appeared to be heavy favorites heading into Tuesday night's dual with 19th ranked Moline. After all, even coming from the same individual sectional, Lockport qualified six wrestlers to the Individual State Tournament to Moline's three. Lockport placed three, Moline placed zero. Tuesday night, none of that mattered, as Moline pushed the Porters to the edge. Despite trailing for most of the dual, the Porters came through in many ways, and managed to pull out a 36-28 victory . . .
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Lockport's wrestling team left Assembly Hall Saturday night with a sour taste in their mouths. Despite coming in with six state qualifiers, only three left with medals, and none with a coveted bracketboard. It was a bittersweet weekend, as none of the wrestlers were happy with their overall performance, but at the same time, half of our athletes competing in the tournament placed in one of the hardest state tournaments in the country.
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Just a little thing from Coach Sealy for our qualifiers heading into the next three days. Great job this year, gentleman, and let's hope it continues this weekend!!
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It says a lot for a program and its expectations when a team "only" qualifies six of its starters for the state tournament, but that's exactly the position that Lockport found itself in by the end of the day Saturday. Of the eleven wrestlers who qualified for Friday and Saturday's sectional tournament, six wrestlers solidified a top-four finish, with two others falling one win shy of placing. Shayne Oster and Trevell Timmons both came away with sectional championships, while Abdullah Assaf and Ronald Tucker came up just shy, finishing in second. Brandon Ramos and Baylor Fernandes rounded out the qualifiers, each finishing in third place.
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Lockport came into this past Saturday's regional as heavy favorites, and the Porters mostly delivered on their team expectations. Lockport racked up 209.5 team points, 62.5 more than runner-up Oswego, en route to a second consecutive regional title, and fourth title since 2010. Individually, 11 individuals managed to qualify for next week's individual sectional tournament.
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Only representing 12 out of 14 weights. Only 6 of those 12 wrestlers are considered the "starters." For most teams, that would be a disastrous lineup to enter into a tough conference tournament, but thanks to the depth and skill level of our backup wrestlers, Lockport was still able to take 4th place at the SWSC conference tournament this weekend. Led by a championship from Trevell Timmons at 152, the Porters finished with 143 team points, 25 points behind third place Lincoln-Way East.
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