Anyone have complete results from Duals? Just wondering what happened to Union? Didn't see them mentioned in another post. Figured they would at least place better than some seeing how they beat a couple of them heads up earlier in the year.

1-Larue

2-Woodford

3-South Oldham

4-Trinity

5-Harrison County

6-Dunbar

7-Campbell

8-Fern Creek

Larue v.s Woodford Great Dual

Campbell v.s Harrison Great H.C won by 2

South Oldham v.s Harrison H.C lost by one

Those were some of the close duals.

What else happen at state duals,it will probably be weeks before it is on the kwca web site.Please post how your team did.

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LEXINGTON — LaRue County High School coach wrestling Gary Canter described it as a “cliffhanger.”

As expected, Saturday’s 17th annual Kentucky Dual State Wrestling Championships at Henry Clay came down to the top-seeded Hawks and second-seeded Woodford County. But more than that, it came down to LaRue County’s Tristan Hines and Woodford County’s Shane Parks in the final match.

Hines, wrestling in the 103-pound class, didn’t need to win so much as avoid getting manhandled. His mission was to make sure he didn’t get beat by eight points, and Hines was up to the task, falling 9-5 but sealing the championship.

As a result, the Hawks edged Woodford County, 31-30.

“It was a cliffhanger,” Canter said. “There was a lot of excitement. The kids were pumped.

“(Tristan) knew he could give up points. I told him not to jeopardize the match, but wrestle hard enough not to get turned,” Canter added. “He did a good job fighting off any would-be attack.”

The Hawks captured their third title since 1999 and have placed fifth or better every year since 1998 in the prestigious event. LaRue County also maintained its perfect record in duals this season, muscling to 35-0.

LaRue County boasted several tournament standouts. Stacy Miller (125), Ozzy Parker (130), Matt Miller (135), Evan Smith (140) and Pat Banks (145) all went undefeated in the tournament.

When LaRue County was awarded the top seed and its pool was announced, Canter knew his Hawks were in good shape.

“I told the boys that the event was falling into place exactly as needed to get into the state finals,” Canter said.

He was right. LaRue County steamrolled through its pool, pummeling Henry Clay, 63-9 before putting the hurt on Paul Dunbar, 46-27 and Sheldon Clark, 55-21. Canter said that Paul Dunbar, a “very physical team,” presented the biggest challenge in pool play.

“We had a couple letdowns, but overall we did a solid job from top to bottom,” Canter said. “It was going to take a good team to beat us overall.”

Woodford County was good, but not good enough. The team won seven straight matches over LaRue County, but that came after the Hawks had won seven consecutive of its own. It was the second time this season the Hawks had taken down the top-ranked club and defending tournament champion.

North Hardin was in Woodford County’s pool and finished 2-2. The Trojans were defeated by Campbell County, 36-30 before beating Eastern, 42-27 and Seneca, 34-33 and then falling to Woodford County, 55-18.

Matt Eck (125) won all four of his matches. Josh Johnson (112), Jerry Ledford (140) and Matt Ballinger (275) each went 3-1.

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SATURDAY'S MATCHES

STATE DUALS AT LEXINGTON HENRY CLAY

North Hardin defeated Eastern, 42-27 and Seneca, 34-33 and lost to Campbell County, 36-30 and Woodford County, 55-18 in pool play.

Wt. Wrestler Rec.

103 Brandon Wilder 1-3

112 Josh Johnson 3-1

119 John King 1-3

125 Matt Eck 4-0

135 Chris Range 2-2

140 Jerry Ledford 3-1

145 Johnivon Oggs 1-3

152 Ty Wolfe 2-2

171 Mark Jones 2-1

189 Marcell Haynes 2-1

215 Steven Dow 2-1

275 Matt Ballinger 3-1

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Mat Hawks are State Wrestling Duals champs

It was electric; it was exciting; it was loud; it was raucous; it was LaRue County versus Woodford County with a state championship title being on the line. When the final whistle blew, it was LaRue County winning its third Kentucky Dual State Wrestling Championship in eight years, 31-30.

This season, Kentucky wrestling fans have looked forward to a finals match between LaRue and Woodford. On Saturday, at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, no one was disappointed with was called the most exciting match in the history of the state duals competition.

Like two heavyweight champions swinging haymakers, each team took the best the other had to offer and returned the punches with greater force.

Both refused to fold, but in the end, the Hawks left with a one-point victory and a statement made that the best wrestling team in Kentucky does not reside in Versailles, but in tiny Hodgenville.

Before the Hawks could get to the finals showdown with their archrivals, they had to go through four other teams - Henry Clay, Paul Dunbar, Sheldon Clark and Trinity.

"Henry Clay has some good individual wrestlers," said head coach Gary Canter. While we lost a few matches in this dual, I was pleased with the way we overall came out and wrestled hard. Lucas Carman had a big win in this match getting a little revenge for an early loss."

Carman, who is ranked fourth in the state, defeated the fifth ranked wrestler from Henry Clay.

"The kid really dominated Lucas earlier in the year," said Canter. "Lucas really came to wrestle on Saturday and it was easy to tell from his first match to his last, that he wasn't going to let this team down at all and he didn't. He came through for us all day long."

After defeating Henry Clay 63-9, the Hawks faced Lexington Dunbar.

"Dunbar has some excellent wrestlers who are strong and physical. I wasn't overlooking this team and they did give us everything we could handle," said Canter.

For the early part of this dual, Dunbar did indeed hang tough and close to the Hawks. The dual started at the 189-pound weight class and up to the 125-pound weight class, Dunbar had the lead on the Hawks, 21-16.

Then Dunbar hit the real strength of this team, the middleweights. The Mat Hawks came out recording pin after pin and walked away with the 46-27 win.

To qualify for the championship round, the Hawks then had to defeat Sheldon Clark. Since 1998, for all but one year, Sheldon Clark and LaRue County has found themselves in the same pool and 2006 would be no different.

Normally, the final pool match with Sheldon Clark is a tough, hard-fought match - but not on this day.

"I don't think Sheldon Clark is down this year," said Canter, "our guys were just going to make sure that nothing was going to keep us from that finals match up we all wanted. This team dominated Clark and we basically cruised through the dual."

With the 55-21 win, the Hawks qualified for championship round. The seeding of the dual teams on this day held true, as the number one seed LaRue County headed to a semi-final match with the fourth seed Trinity. The number two seed Woodford, headed to a semi-final match up with the three seed South Oldham team.

For the first time in the day, the Hawks looked and wrestled truly focused. Trinity never had a chance. The state's fourth ranked team has some very good wrestlers but where Trinity is good, the Hawks are better. LaRue won, 41-30.

The semi finals were over, Woodford defeated South Oldham, and LaRue defeated Trinity. The two best teams in the gym were about to face off with a state championship title on the line.

The finals

The finals dual started at the 112-pound weight class.

The number one ranked wrestler at this weight class was from Woodford County's top-ranked Coty Lewis took on the Hawks put fourth-ranked Lucas Carman. The match was a small snapshot of the dual, a war.

"Lucas wrestled the best match of his entire varsity career to date," said Canter.

With each takedown and each escape, half the gymnasium would explode with cheers. Woodford was ahead 3-0 with the two-point victory.

Darwin Perez, the Hawk's 119-pounder then took to the mat to face the fifth ranked wrestler in the state. This match was never in doubt from the start to finish as Perez dominated his opponent.

Then the Hawks 125-pound wrestler, Stacy Miller took to the mat and captured some extra points for the Hawks scoring a huge pin and six team points.

"The difference in this match was who was going to get the extra team points, normally that means who gets pins and who doesn't but I knew going in it was going to come down to who got the major wins versus decisions and that is exactly what was the difference in this dual," said Canter.

At the 130-pound weight class, senior Ozzy Parker secured the major decision, 17-3, for the Hawks, by dominating his Woodford opponent on his feet. Twice Parker had his opponent on his back but couldn't secure the pin.

Sophomore Matt Miller, who is ranked fourth, took on the sixth-ranked wrestler at 135. The match was as close as their rankings would indicate it should be, with Miller eking out the 15-11 win.

At the 140-pound class, Woodford sent out a different opponent than they had for their first dual with LaRue. At that meeting, Woodford’s JV wrestler was tech-pinned by Evan Smith. This time, Woodford wrestlers and faithful expected a different outcome with their starter back in the lineup. Indeed it was, as Smith pinned the Woodford starter in the second period.

"That was a huge win and a huge let down for them, almost as big of a letdown for Woodford at the 145-pound match," said Canter.

Then Patrick Banks took to the mat against the only opponent to defeat him this season. Banks came out and scored two takedowns in the first period and held on for a 4-2 victory.

"The wind was really taken out of their sails. You could see it in all of their faces," said Canter.

At the 152-pound weight class, the Hawks were to score their last points in this dual, a pin by junior Scott Wheeler.

LaRue 31, Woodford 3.

The dual was far from over at this point as the Hawks were about to face Woodford County's version of "Murder's Row" as they sent out the top-ranked wrestlers at 160, 171, and 189 and the number two ranked wrestlers in the state at 215 and 275. Woodford was about to have something cheer about and they were about to make a huge comeback.

By the time the 275-pound match was over, Woodford was in striking distance, only four points behind the Hawks, 31-27. The Hawks almost salted the dual win away at both the 160-pound and 215-pound weight classes, but after some questionable calls by the referee and a late takedown in each dual, Woodford County got the decisions at both weight classes and the comeback was almost complete.

The last match was the 103-pound weight class and LaRue hung on to a slim four-point lead. This meant that the Hawks three-pound wrestler, Tristen Hines, could lose, but only by a decision, less than eight points.

The gym was deafening, all other matches were over and the finals mat was surrounded by all the teams in the gym, no one sat and state championship came down to the two lightest athletes in the gym from each team.

In a highly intense and competitive match, Hines lost 9-5 and the LaRue County faithful erupted in celebration. The Woodford crowd was stunned, silent in disbelief by the 31-30 defeat.

"Tristen could have won that match, of that I am convinced," said Canter. "Tristen went out and wrestled conservatively, to not lose by much. The next time we wrestle him, Tristen will go all out and I do believe will beat him."

"Before the day began there was smack-talking by some Woodford folks which was directed towards me. They let it be known that they didn't have all of their wrestlers the first time we wrestled them, but now they did and they weren't going to lose again. Many opposing coaches also thought the same thing. I guess that wasn't supposed to happen on Saturday," Canter said, smiling.

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Nice article

Thanks for the post :wink: