The Truman boys wrestling team is one that is often shorthanded. In Tuesday’s tri dual against North Kansas City and St. Joseph Central, the Patriots had seven open spots. The Indians and Hornets had quite few open spots themselves. That allowed Truman to have a shot at winning both duals. It did just that following […]
KANSAS CITY — Liberty North won the first six contest matches and then held off a charge by Park Hill to pick up a 48-28 win on Tuesday night in a Suburban Conference gold Division showdown at Park Hill High School. The win was the second in a row for the Eagles over the Trojans. […]
Right before the two-week holiday break, the Van Horn suffered its first dual loss. On Dec. 22, the Falcons fell to Blue Springs South 43-42 after losing the tiebreaker due to having more forfeits. However, the team was missing nearly half of its starting varsity wrestlers along with head coach Craig Addison due to various […]
Some Kansas City area junior varsity wrestlers had an opportunity to compete over the holidays at the Pleasant Hill JV Invitational Thursday. The tournament featured 17 teams and 28 weight divisions. There were no team scores and each weight class was done in a round-robin style format. Video Interviews: Below is a summary of the […]
From youth to high school, the sport of wrestling is short on referees in Missouri. Just ask Kyle Lewis, a Columbia Rock Bridge High School graduate and a veteran referee of 12 years who hires referees for events in the central Missouri area. Lewis said it’s been an issue for the past five years or […]
For those who didn’t attend, let’s take a look at the sights from the teams that battled at the Wonder Woman – which featured 75+ of the toughest girls teams.
HUGE Shoutout to Laura Lewis for these Wonder Woman photos. Such great action after day one of the tournament featuring over 75 teams.
Christmas Time in Eldon-Part 2 Day two of a tournament is always a challenge. Everyone has to get through the first few rounds on Friday night, get checked into the hotel, shower, sleep and be ready to make weight on a consecutive day. For most of these ladies, it would be the first time through […]
Christmas Time in Eldon-Part 1 Finals week is done but the Mexico Lady Bulldogs are not going to stop working. After wrestling earlier week late into the night, they were able to recharge and regroup. They traveled down to Eldon who’s hosting their Lady Mustang Christmas Bash. This year Eldon chose to expand this to […]
When we get weather in the 70s in December, you have to respect the creativity of the Hannibal coaching staff to take full advantage of this weather and wrestle the Battle on the Grid Iron dual outside on the turf. The action lasted just about halfway through the dual before the head official, Kyle Lewis, […]