Congrats to our super 6 from SWVA who finished on the podium and earned All-State honors!! This tournament is different from the boys — there are no classes. In some brackets there were upwards of 50 ladies battling it out, and to stand on the podium is one helluva achievement.
Dang Campbell a 10th seed? Didn't she win regular season regional titles ?
She did. They have multiple criteria on how they do it. The order is:
Winning percentage
Number of wins
2023 VHSL Girls Championship finishing place
Record vs. girls this season
The 1 seed in that bracket is like 32-6 to Portia's 25-11. Those two have the most wins in that bracket -- but there are several girls who are 10-2 or 12-5 (for example) that got seeded higher by percentages. She'll be a threat to make the semi's from that 10 seed for sure. She's a helluva wrestler.
Good luck to all of our girls from SWVA as they go for their state championships this weekend up at Gar-Field in Woodbridge.
I’ll try to keep how the SWVA contingent does as it goes along.
I just want to know where are all the turf in the devil people on this tread? Shouldn't everyone be playing on grass? That is the way the game was meant to be played right, on grass and the illegal forward pass.
I think at the college & NFL level, you should be playing on grass. But for high schools, I'm all for turf just because it's easier to maintain for small schools.
The color green in general is an issue with how it reacts to light. Just drive by and look at any green tin roof. It can all come from the same manufacturer with the same manufacturing date but some will fade and change colors at different levels.
Green is such a dumb color. Why would ANYONE ever use it. 😉
How would they determine a tie breaker (I.e. The SWD). If Virginia high and Graham are tied ( which more than likely will happen) and even if Lebanon beats Graham and Virginia High (could see them beating Virginia High but probably not Graham. Might be a closer game this time tho). How would they break the tie?
SWD in the past used the conference tournament for seeding. Not sure if that will remain this year or not.
Richlands’ Kendi Dye won at 126 and was named Most Outstanding Wrestler at the Lady Raider Rumble in Beckley tonight. She went 6-0 with 5 pins and a forfeit.
That takes her to 24-3 on the season. All 3 losses are to boys, and she’s pinned every girl she’s wrestled this season. She’s entered 4 all-girls tournaments (two in Beckley, one in Radford, one in Pikeville) and has won her class in all 4.
Excited to see how far she goes at girls state next month up in Woodbridge.
Right now Richlands isn’t good at basketball, football, baseball or soccer. Sorry man, not sure what’s going on there, but I can only imagine that every coach, player and fan that left Lebanon the other night, left humiliated. Even if they’ve never been good at basketball, no one should take a beating like that, kids deserve better. Who is going to apply for the basketball job. I bet Ronnie Davis is feeling like a big fool at this very minute for banking on the Lebanon kid to help pull Richlands out of their downward football spiral.
Everything is a cycle. It’ll all come back around. There’s a group of young kids that are successful that in the next decade will be in high school and the pendulum hopefully swings back the other way.
Finally starting to see the fruits of the youth wrestling club. They just started it 5 years ago, so you’re staring to see those kids who were young when it started move up to middle school and early high school. They’ve had over 60 kids go to tournaments multiple times this season. I’m excited to see the growth another 5 years from now.
Richlands ended up placing 9th. Went 3-1 on the weekend. First team from Tazewell County to ever place in the VA Duels. Huge honor. Wish we could have gotten a different draw than Poquoson in that first round to see what would have happened.
Looks like Grundy won their 2 matches today at Va dual, Richlands wrestles Poquoson there this eve
Richlands lost to Poquoson (one of the best teams in the state) but has now won two in the consolidation bracket and will wrestle Tabb for 9th place. If they win they’ll have gone 3-1 in the Duels and that is one helluva accomplishment.
That’s my thought too. Leaving that in hopes of helping an 0-10 program rebound? It doesn’t make sense he’d leave Graham right now. I think Graham has all defensive starters back but one. That defense kept Radford on their toes in the state semifinals. If they put in the work during the off-season like they have been, they will be a force to be reckoned with in my opinion.
He may or may not come back. No one really knows yet. But the allure of coming back to help an 0-10 program is to come back home to coach with your brother and help your brother turn an 0-10 program around. I know if I was in his shoes and had the chance to work with my brother, I'd be leaving, personally.
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