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Maybe Moseley should have worked on finishing his shots as much as Berz did on defending them. Sitting in my house back here in Chattanooga last night I was surprised the ref didn't call it earlier. It was clear the FR wrestler was shooting not to score, but to hold on to the leg. Congrats to Berz for being a one time placer and state champion.

So it appears there was a "miracle" last night. Props to Mr. Berz for beating Craig in the rematch. Also great work from Mr. Brunner catching Westbrooks and pinning him. Baylor came to win. the bonus points did not come at 113, 120 or 285, so shout out to the baylor wrestlers for showing up and not letting that happen. I think we all look forward to a possible remtach next week in Nashville.

Let's get some predictions started, I honestly have no idea what to say so I'll let y'all do the predictions. Correct me if I'm wrong on these starting line ups 103 Murphy v.s Westbrooks 113 Canada? v.s Elsea 120 Eady vs Connell 126 Watson v.s Davis 132 Bruner v.s T. Westbrooks 138 Sutherland v.s Ward 145 Popp v.s Kent 152 Cate v.s Halleron 160 Huff v.s McCroskey 170 Craig vs. Berz 182 Bodine vs Hoodenpyle 195 Norred v.s ? 220 Seaberg vs Cook 285 Payne v.s Youngblood Who is this Powell kid at 113 for Baylor? Will Watson bump to wrestle Westbrooks? Does Clements fit in the Baylor lineup with Popp going down to 138? Will Baylor have all their starters back? Did McCallie find a 195? Among those questions, there are a lot of toss up matches even if the competitors have already wrestled, such as 103, 132, 160, 170, 220? Can we get some team score predictions?

McCallie has lost more quality wrestlers, than maybe any team in the country to other schools. For example: Houston Clements-Baylor (even though he is out for the year) Michael Murphy-Baylor Michael Hooker-Father Ryan T.J. Satterfield- William Blount Blaike Henry- Soddy Daisy by God Cory Cobb- No longer wrestling Daniel McClure- No longer wrestling Say what you want about why these kids left McCallie or left the school completely, but if McCallie still had all of these kids, who are all state placers, they would be ranked very high this year. Mike Newman has been left with something that is hard to fix, a team that consistently loses good wrestlers after every season. He will get these boys back on top in the next couple of years, so I guess you could say they are rebuilding.

stuart, what are you talking about? glad to see you didnt stall, congrats

did anyone else notice how many stalling calls baylor had?

I hate to reply to you, especially in this topic because it has absolutely nothing to do with what is going to happen at the school behind WalMart friday night but... The whole point of the split between public and private in the TSSAA was to make it fair for everyone. If you argue against that then you have no business being on this forum. If a kid that switches from public to private has to sit out, then a kid that switches from private to private should have to sit out too, its that simple. No matter What Clements reason was, no matter your opinion on his decision, he knew the consequences and continued to do what he thought was best for him, and his career in high school athletics. Transfers should indeed have penalties if you want everything to be fair. If not almost every high school sport would be corrupt with recruiting, violations and money. No one wants to see money as an issue in high school sports, it's about the kids doing what they love because they love it. And if they want to do something they love at another school, they should know they will have to sit out. It's life, it's full of punishments, you can't go running around doing what you want freely and have nothing hold you back ever. Anyway back to the match that all these kids have circled since November. At the Slam, Jake Anderson of McCallie decisioned Bullard of Baylor at 189 this weekend. In other match ups containing these two schools, Martino pinned bodine in less than a minute. Lets get some more predictions, if you want to talk about transfers, take it somewhere else.

Rumor has it that the school behind walmart is bringing out nic bullard to wrestle at 189 in this dual, the kid hasnt wrestled all year. 103 Connell pin Holloway 112 Elsea Dec Eady 119 Brunner pin Boyd 125 Ward dec Watson 12-6 Boys in Blue 130 Reece dec Westbrook 135 Manley Fall Kent 140 Doster maj. dec Cobb 145 Hooker Dec Popp 19-18 Tights no longer 152 Cate dec McClure 160 Duncan pin Craig 171 Martino Pin Bodine 189 Bullard maj. dec Anderson 30-26 Boys in Blue 215 Cook dec Starnes 285 Mackey dec Youngblood Final: McCallie 33 Baylor 29

I might be mistaken but I'm pretty sure that match that Duncan lost in the Duals he was wrestling up a weight class.

Here are my predictions for the dual that will be held January 29th at 6:00 on the McCallie Campus. 103- Alex Elsea fall Nick Standefer 112- Alex Ward fall John Eady 119- Zach Watson maj dec Tim Westbrooks (If watson is healthy) 125 Alex Manley dec. Taylor Silberman McCallie 12- 7 130- ??? 135- Cole Hayes fall Turner Martin (or does hayes go 130 now?) 140- Hooker dec Doster 145- Houston Clements dec Mathew Cate in overtime, Best Match 152- TJ Duncan fall Spencer Craig 160- Chase Martino fall Matt Bodine McCallie 30- 13 171 Nate Condrey dec Jake Standefer 189 Mac Fergusson pins Austin Prevost 215 John MAckey maj dec. T.J. Satterfield 285 Barret Gouger Dec. Tye Youngblood. McCallie 33-24

the person would be one Michael Hooker. And this is not the first time this has happened. Not the second, third or forth. And no one is doing a thing about it. Yesterday in that match, the 2nd time it happened, he did it himself. Some of the tactics used by this school's kids are way out of control, and the school's admin needs to take a long hard look at their wrestling program. From blatant head butts, to the constant kicking off of one's own shoe. Among other things that goes on. I can't believe for the life of me, that anyone would want their school's name put out there like this. Ridiculous! Wow... You sir are blaming a school for what their wrestlers do. Do you think Coach Gordo teaches his kids to do this in the room. As I recall, from watching the match online, the second time Hooker's shoe came off they made him take injury time to put it back on. Why are you taking credit away from a kid that fought hard to win this tourney? Dont tell me that Hooker is the only kid in the state who has had his shoe come off twice in one match. As for the Head Butting that just comes from a wrestlers will to win. Any kid that has been on the mat, and wants to win, will go out there hard and try and beat their opponent no matter what. If it takes a little bump of the head every now and then then they will do it. If I was taught correctly it takes two heads to butt, and both heads absorb the impact. There are several other schools out there who get away with yanking fingers back one at a time to break a grip (Baylor) and head butting, every team gets away with some stuff. Of course nobody gets away with biting, but that stuff just comes from a kids will to win. After the kid gets punished for biting like Alex Manley did he should get applauded for wanting to win so bad, that he will taint his reputation to do something like that.

Mike Newman The McCallie School

McCallie's Jordan Price scored 31 last night against Ridgeland (GA) McCallie wins big 101-68

After two straight sivision loses the last one being a heartbreaker I think the big blue will pull this one off for number 12. If Trent lusk plays the way he did tonight it will be a blow out. The offensive coordinator for mccallie really stepped it up tonight in gettin his offense ready to play. I got a chance to watch the MBA vs Baylor game last week on the MBA network and Baylor didn't look as good as the could have looked, overthrown balls, dropped passes and they don't have a kicking game like MBA does.can the red raiders make use if their 15 day off an make it a competition like we saw two years ago when te rivals played over at heywood stadium. This is the year is what the Baylor faithful are saying. But is it? Can the big blue defense lead by senior Nolan woody stop the taleted and wicked fast running back of sam Williams who hasn't really come up big for the red raiders do to injury this season. Can the secondary for mccallie containing the pritchett triplets cover matthew oellrich and the other baylor wide receivers? Will Jacob huesmann be the player Baylor has been looking for for the past eleven years? Can mccallie not allow Baylor to play on a short field like bylor got to play on because of turnovers against tyner? It's the color battle of blue and red. It is the smell of hate that will fill heywood stadium in one week. It is the car flags that control the whole city. It's the pep rallys. It's the alumni coming back to see if the big blue cn beat Baylor for another year. It's the passionate hate for the other team. It's fathers brainwashing their sons or daughters to hate the color of the rival team. It's the t shirts. It's the talk ofthe town. It's the best week of my life. It's the most critical game for both teams. It's what can make or break a season. It's what can make or break a career. It's the greatest rivalry in Tennessee. It is Baylor-McCallie and it starts NOW!

Public- Private. Fight for a chance to get in- given the opportunity. Ronnie Carter was one of the men to decide that the TSSAA would split up the private and public schools. And because of this he should be ashamed. Mr. Carter was honored before the national anthem at the State Wrestling Tournament yesterday. To see all the private schools standing up and clapping for him shows just how clueless these people are. Do they not remember the REAL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP where you had to fight in your region through a whole tournament in fact, to get the opportunity to wrestle in the State tournament. I was with a man who sat down when they announced roddie's name. While he should not have done that MR. Carter still doesn't deserve a standing ovation. The public schools wanted to be split from the private because they do not get the same opportunities that the private schools get such as, coaches, money, venues etc. but Ronnie should have kept them equal. How great would it be to see the divisions reuntied in one great tournament. Where you have to place in your region to compete for the state titled. Where rankings arnt given to you based on your record that year. YOu have to earn your ranking. Ronnie should have shown more backbone to the public schools. I just wish our kids would have the same opportunities we had when we were in highschool. I'm disgusted. You should never be given something straight up, you should earn it. In my book there are no State champions, only Division champions and those division champions can thank Mr. Ronnie Carter for that.