Larue is going to Lorain, Ohio to compete in a 2 day tourney. Some people wil have some nationaly ranked kids. I think a lot of records will change. How does everyone think they'll do?

i think they will hold there own, and surprise a few teams/coaches, but not every ohio tournament is tough.

I really like the format of this tournament with some definite seeding criteria as well as ending up with two pools on the second day. The seeding is based on State finishers, state qualifiers, district etc... then you wrestle three matches in your pool and based the outcome of those matches determines whether you are in the A pool or the B pool for the second day. You can medal in either pool depending on your record. This is the greater Cleveland area but the tournament does not have St. Eds in it; however, I fully expect the competition to be very good and I expect some of our kids to make a good showing there. We wrestled this same tournament back in 2000 and placed two kids in the A pool (Todd Allen 2nd and Brad Walters 1st) and several in the B pool. Some of the parents back then still believe this to be the best tournament they ever attended.

Good luck Larue, make KY proud!

I've seen some of those tourneys in Cincy.... LowSingle is right. Is this a tournament with a lot of D1 schools ? If so, this is a beast of an undertaking.

I think LaRue would definitely hold their own against most D3 schools and some D2 schools up there, but that greater Cleveland area up there has some D1 schools that are insane. I've seen some beasts in Cincinnati (i'd say the top rated guy from Cincy in every weight class would be top 3 at least in Ky) and the Cleveland area is tougher than Cincinnati. Putting this in perspective, even though Campbell Co is down this year, Harrison OH's JV team beat Campbell's varsity, although Campbell was forfeiting a few spots and took last. The very next week Campbell Co won conference beating a depleted Ryle, but will be interesting next time even factoring that in. And this was against D1 schools in a weaker region.

LaRue is a good bit better than Campbell this year, and I could see Parker and Banks maybe placing, depending on who's there. But i'd like to see them top 3, that would be really impressive !! Good luck to all of LaRue.

Coach Canter is from up around them parts and he should be able to prepare the team for what's in store for them. We are also going to go over and scrimmage his old alma mater on Saturday before we come home so that will be a nice finish to what we hope to be a great trip.

What teams are scheduled for the tournament?

Avon Lake

Cleveland Hts.

Clyde

Kirtland

Copley

Twinsburg

Euclid

Jefferson Area

Westlake

Keystone

Fairview

Notre Dame CL

Southview (host school)

Trinity

Beaver Local

Will try to post some results for you all if we can get to a computer.

http://ohiowrestlingrankings.homestead.com/Rankings.html

Provides rankings of teams in Ohio by division, it looks as if the host school is the number 12 team in division 1 based on dual meet performances. Clyde is 6th in division 2. Could not find a Beaver Local, there is a Libson Beaver ranked 18th in division 2 and a Beaver Creeek ranked 49th in division 1. Those are the only teams in the list that were ranked in the top 20.

where do you find individual rankings at ?

Last year Woodford got beat by the #1 Div II team in Ohio and eveyone gave them crap, remember?

I hope Larue wins so that stuff won't go around again. Give'm hell guys.

good luck to larue. keep us posted on the tournament.

NO, they weren't the #1 D2 team in Ohio. The team that beat Woodford got routed BADLY by Paris Graham at state. Paris Graham was ranked 3rd nationally last year. Pemberville EAstwood was the runner up to them at Ohio D2 state, lost by almost 100 to Paris Graham, and was the ones that beat Woodford at hammer and anvil.

But give em hell anyway !!

lol

lorain southview was at carlise this year. 103 is tough so is the 119 frankie mercaode i think 119 cruz 103.ryle won the tourney.

Oh sorry fan, #2, whatever. They were tuff and would of beat any team in KY BADLY.....

Speaking of that tournament, did anyone notice that the guy who was the #1 seed and beat Murton at Beast of the East was the same guy who beat Rusty Parks last year really badly in the finals?

Pretty interesting...

Yeah, i was told about him. That kid was ranked like 20th last year at 125, all years combined (fresh, soph, junior, senior).

And yes, Pemberville is awesome and would have won state almost anywhere if it hadn't been for their misfortune of coming up against a nationally ranked team like that. Ohio was home to the #1 and #3 ranked teams last year (Lakewood, Paris Graham). Wow !!

Whats all the fuss about? Some of you guys act like KY schools never cross the river into OH. NKY teams like CC, SK and Ryle go to OH for tourneys nearly every weekend. Why? Because the competition is tougher. Lorain does have some pretty tough kids in that tourney. Ryle beat them badly at Carlisle. SK and Ryle is going to a tourney in Dayton on 29/30th, Graham will be there for that one. Graham will put the usual beating on everyone.

Campbell Co goes up there a lot, but it seems they usually stick to the tourneys where they'll be competitive. Its pointless to take on Paris Graham or anyone like that really, unless your team needs an attitude adjustment or you want the Cooper boys to get a match against a monster. Essentially, it seems they'll pick the tourneys to go to such that they're wrestling the equivalent of a Woodford or LaRue every weekend.

I can't speak for Ryle or SK, i don't know where all they go. I do know Campbell Co never goes outside the greater cincinnati area.

A good reason other than competition for NKY to go to Cincinnati, is its way closer than driving all the way to Lexington or Louisville and consequently cheaper and more convenient. Its not intended as a snub, its a heck of a lot closer than driving to Louisville or Lexington. We live 15-20 minutes from Cincy and over an hour from Lexington or Louisville ... so where would you go ?

Either way, region 6 (the NKY teams) has been the most powerful region over the past several years ... could over the river wrestling be the reason ? They are vulnerable to being upstaged at state this year as the region is not as powerful this year as years past.

I do believe parker is sick, wheeler, and miller but hopefully will be redy to compete.

Ryle and SK have been going to the Dayton Tourney long before Graham entered. This is their 2nd year. Ryle finished 5th overall last year behind Graham and Walton, GA (state champs) and SK was top 20. I think you have to be top 20 to be invited back. both Ryle and SK had a champ and few placers. It is very equivalent to our state tourney, 40+ teams. 2 divisions, one bracket.

Didn't the tournament start today? Do we have any results? Where can I see how Larue is doing? :?:

Larue placed 2nd as a team and Pat Banks and Kyle Carmen took home first place..

Are the Lorain and WCI results posted online? I forgot about Brecksville tourney in Cleveland. It's probably 2nd to the Ironman for OH tourneys. Lorain probably wasn't as tough as everyone thought b/c of Brecksville. Regardless, hats of to the Larue boys.

I know that the Dayton Holiday is posted on Baumspage. KY had 2 champs Aylor and Cooper.

My Bad, I forgot about the Medina Meatgrinder also posted on Baumspage. The MIT would take the 2nd spot behind the Ironman. ED's won, Davison, MI 2nd.

Larue placed 2nd as a team and Pat Banks and Kyle Carmen took home first place..

How did little Carmen, Miller and Parker do :?:

We're Home! Happy New Year to all! LaRue had a great trip to northern Ohio and came away with a second place finish at Lorain Southview tournament. We see-sawed back and forth with Lorain for both days and they finally pulled away in the finals to beat us by six or so. This is not the same Loraine team that Ryle beat since they were minus several starters and this is straight from their coach. Saw some great action up there with leg riding and great counter moves. Bunch of Murton type wrestlers there. Great heavyweight final between Clyde (junior national champ and state champ going on full ride to Michigan) against Beaver Local (the team that someone could find no record on) sudden death match with Clyde winning on a contoversial call (boy I thought us Kentucky folks were redneck...you ought to have seen that Beaver crowd after the decision). We have no heavys that are evenly remotely close to those two guys. 103 kid from Jefferson is the real deal and eaisly defetaed the Laraine 103 by pin. Nobody here close to him either. The 130 from Beaver Local (Derrik Caudill) and the 130 from Clyde were both tough as well (see Ozzie's fourth place finish). 119 from Lorraine won and he was also very good. Their 112 was in the finals and got dq'd on a slam.

For LaRue:

119 - Carman was in the match for third (I think) and got dq'd.

125 - Stacey got ruuner-up (lost in OT to Avon Lake kid)

130 - Ozzie took fourth (Tough weight class)

145 - Pat Banks wrestled like a man winning an OT match in the semi's and a close decision in the finals. Pat finally has gotten in shape from football and some nagging injuries.

152 - Wheeler took 2nd losing his first match of the year in the finals to a kid from Westlake.

160 - Barnhill took sixth (I think)

171 - Carman just flat outlasted some wicked tilts from a Clyde kid in the finals and held on for the win.

189 - Nobody from LC but a note here that this was by far the best weight class of the tourney...totally stacked!

215 - Embree took sixth

This was a dandy tournament hosted by one of the top twenty programs in the country year in and year out. LC held their own plus some and made a very good impression on some of the folks up up there.

Happy Pappy,

How did Trishan Hines @12 do against the Ohio kids :?:

I dont care how the outcome of this is or was.I applaude them for going to such a tuff tournament out of state and wish more of our schools would do exactly the same. This is what we need more of to raise our level if we EVER hope to compete with Ohio and Indiana. Be proud of yourself LaRue

I dont care how the outcome of this is or was.I applaude them for going to such a tuff tournament out of state and wish more of our schools would do exactly the same. This is what we need more of to raise our level if we EVER hope to compete with Ohio and Indiana. Be proud of yourself LaRue

refdad, why so short :oops: , I was just interest in how he did @12.

Now, that he's @ 103 he should continue to do well :wink:

Sorry if I struck a nerve :roll:

okay

This was me last year when I made comments about Larue on there performance at Father Ryan' date=' they have very short fuses.[/quote']

I don't believe Refdad is from LaRue County Falconmatt so don't associate his comments with all the rest of us and I'm sorry you think we have short fuses (we are passionate about defending the great tradition we have established here). The Father Ryan Tournament LAST YEAR is over. It (just like the other tournaments we competed in) helped to prepare us for our run at our Class A state title as well as our second place overall finish...but that was last year. We went to Cleveland (Ohio not Tennessee) this year (better competition than FR without the overall numbers plus defined seeding criteria) to hopefully help us prepare for THIS YEAR'S state competition. What's in the past is in the past and that's where I'll leave it. Yes FR was a big disapointment but we are over it and we are moving ahead to bigger and hopefully better things like winning another state title.