After being cancelled last year by Mother Nature, We're up to running it again this year. Ledyard Youth Wrestling 7th Colonel Clash! Location: Ledyard High School Address: 24 Gallup Hill Road, Ledyard, CT 06339 Date: Sunday, January 19, 2020 Contact: John Crawford E-Mail: ledyardyouthwrestling@gmail.com Phone: (860) 917-9660 Format: 5 Man Round Robin (when possible) grouped by weight and age based on the number of entries received Team Trophy for 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd Place: 3 foot team trophy for first place A team roster of 10 wrestlers will compete for a team trophy. Separate trophies for morning and afternoon sessions Team scorers to be submitted upon check-in Team scoring will be 6 points for a pin, 5 for a Tech Fall, 4 for a Major decision and 3 for a decision. All team scores will be considered final thirty minutes after the morning session and afternoon sessions end. Individual Awards: Individual trophies will be awarded for 1 st place. Medals for 2 nd and 3 rd place wrestlers Registration Information: Pre-Registration required at usawct.org. No walk-ins will be accepted Registration capped at 300 wrestlers All wrestlers must have a valid 2019-2020 USAWCT Wrestling Card Out-of-State wrestlers should contact Karen Crawford at ledyardyouthwrestling@gmail.com Tournament Fees: $20.00 for 1 st wrestler per family/$14.00 for 2 nd wrestler per family/$8.00 for each additional wrestler per family General Admission is $3; children under the age of 12 are free Food & Beverages: Full food and beverage sales will be available on site Tournament Guidelines: Head Gear is required for all wrestlers, no exceptions Mouth guards are required for all wrestlers with braces, no exceptions Tech Falls will occur when a 12 point margin is achieved, all age groups 20 minutes will be allowed between a wrestler’s matches unless agreed upon by both coaches Check-Ins: Each club will sign in and pay for their team’s registration at the front check-in table and inform the Director of any known no shows All wrestlers must check in at the “Skin Check” area prior to the end of each session’s “Skin Check-In” time No refunds for no shows – each club is responsible for payment Weigh-Ins: Wrestlers may only register for and wrestle in one bracket. This includes brackets for team scoring. Any wrestler that weighs in more than 2 pounds over their registration weight will be disqualified and reported to the state chairman. If the director thinks the registration weight was entered erroneously, the wrestler may be re-bracketed LINK to FLYER: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B23mGsbB66V1dXlKTjB1bTFHdmU1Z3NDMkk4Uzl2SDFMd2x3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhKyiXEsJgg&t=5918s Youtube from The Day (of New London)

2019 ECC Tournament (Eastern CT Conference) https://arena.flowrestling.org/ Start 02/08/2019 03:00 PM EST End 02/09/2019 06:00 PM EST Location Robert E. Fitch Senior High School Groton, CT, US Round of 16 02/08/2019 05:00 PM EST 02/08/2019 06:00 PM EST Quarters 02/08/2019 06:00 PM EST 02/08/2019 07:30 PM EST Consis 02/08/2019 07:30 PM EST 02/08/2019 08:30 PM EST Semis & Consi Qtrs 02/09/2019 11:00 AM EST 02/09/2019 12:30 PM EST Consi Semis 02/09/2019 01:15 PM EST 02/09/2019 02:30 PM EST 3rd & 5th 02/09/2019 02:30 PM EST 02/09/2019 03:30 PM EST Finals 02/09/2019 04:15 PM EST 02/09/2019 06:00 PM EST Bacon Academy - East Lyme - Fitch - Griswold - Killingly - Ledyard - Lyman Mem / Windham Tech - Montville - New London High School - Norwich Free Academy - St. Bernard/Norwich Tech - Stonington--1 man team - Waterford - Wheeler--1 man team – Windham

I noticed today that you have Guilford listed as an LL school, they are in the M's.

I was curious as to what happened in the 132 Connor McGonagle (T) default Kyle Fields (D) Match. I see the "Default" decision to which Danbury lost 3 points denoted with 3 Asterisks, going from 17 to 14 and Timberlane received 5 points going from 13 to 18 with an Asterisk denoting loss of a team point. I do not recall having ever seen Danbury with a final score that was so lopsided against the Hatters. Results From Hatters Website: Danbury HS (10-1) 14 Timerlane HS 49 WGT RESULT Danbury Timerlane 195 Montez Osbey (D) tech. fall Brendon Young (T) 17-1 5 0 220 DJ Donovan (D) pin Chris Lund (T) 1:45 11 0 285 Marcos Colone (T) dec. Jordan Agosto (D) 4-3 11 3 106 Kailan O’Dell (D) major dec. Konrad Parker (T) 11-0 15 3 113 Jake Russo (T) pin Liam Knight (D) 2:10 15 9 120 Tyler Johnson (D) dec. John Leved (T) 5-1 17* 9 126 Cody Wild (T) major dec. Matt Lucas (D) 11-2 17 13 132 Connor McGonagle (T) default Kyle Fields (D) 14*** 18* 138 Nick Pallaria (T) pin Logan Kovacs (D) 2:30 14 24 145 Antonio Pallaria (T) dec. Ben LeBlanc (D) 3-0 14 27 152 Adam Marquis (T) pin Daniel Camacho (D) 4:52 14 33 160 Joe Friel (T) pin Jaylen Hawkins (D) 2:38 14 39 170 Cooper Kelly (T) major dec. Tyrell Jones (D) 18-5 14 43 182 Mitch Hamend (T) pin Billy Rojas (D) 1:59 14 49 *Team Point Deducted http://www.hatterswrestling.com/

For those of a Charitable Mindset, please take a moment to consider the high school wrestling program in Paradise California (Camp Fire). I grew up in Susanville CA, we wrestled Paradise as part of the North Section. Just reading the post evokes such emotion. The Link below will take you to the California Wrestler Forums. There is a GoFundMe Link in the post. http://forum.thecaliforniawrestler.com/index.php?topic=94296.0 Rob Russak Ledyard Youth Wrestling

When will the ECC Tournament brackets be up on Floarena? I see the tournament listed, and I know you have to seed the wrestlers.

Coaches Poll Top 10: 1) Danbury 2) New Milford 3) Bristol Eastern 4) Xavier 5) Newtown 6) Southington 7) Trumbull 8) Ledyard 9) Farifield Warde 10) Ellis Tech http://www.norwichbulletin.com/sports/20170130/ledyard-moves-up-spot-in-state-hs-wrestling-coaches-poll

So for those who have never met me, I am a transplant in the state of Connecticut. I grew up in California and the Navy put me here. Neither bad nor good, just some differences. Neither of the 2 schools in the attached video are mine, but it does demonstrate a big difference in how Wrestling gets promoted and celebrated, especially between these two bitter rivals. I'm posting this as Ledyard gets set to travel into HOSTILE territory this Wednesday in Windham. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVOaPojlF_w

Besides Waterford and Ledyard, does anyone have a list of the teams coming to Waterford this coming Saturday?

Fairfield Warde (#3 CW / #7 NB), Bristol Eastern (#4 CW / #3 NB) travel to the "East Coast of Connecticut" to get together with Ledyard (#9 CW / #9 NB) for 2 duals each. Should be some really good matches considering the depth of each of the teams. I'll be posting results to Twitter under my name (@Plankowner21) and using the Connecticut Wrestling "Hashtag - Pound - Number Sign" #CTWR.

I noticed on the rankings of teams, Windham is listed as Class M, they are in the Class S.

So I get that the site is set up to aggregate wrestlers and award points to a team based on their ranked wrestlers. Here's how they are stacked right now: 1 Montville 2 Haddam-Killingworth 3 Morgan 4 Windham 5 St. Paul HM Granby Granted that I am a Ledyard Wrestling Fan but there must be an "intangable" in the rankings to account for teams where their wrestlers will very likely outplace their "ranks". I believe top 3 will be Ledyard, Windham and Montville.

Bristol Central tournament moved to MLK Holiday.

Notes from a Ledyard fan at the Killingly / Ledyard match last night: Ledyard 38, Killingly 22 At Ledyard 106- D. Charron (K) dec Millbach (L) 17-5 Charron looked good throughout the match. Millbach hit a couple moves and gutted through a couple scrambles but Charron was rarely in trouble. 113- M. Charron (K) dec Milller (L) 11-4 Stop me if you’ve hear this before; Charron looked good throughout the match. Miller made a couple moves but the match was not really ever out of Charron’s control. 120- Ngyuen (L) dec DA. Charron (K) 9-3 Ngyuen seemed to start slowly in this match. Could have been that Charron is a good wrestler out of Killingly’s youth program. In the end, Senior’s experience stretched out the score. 126- Graziano (L) dec Johnson (K) 15-4 Graziano out-lasted and scored repeatedly later in the match. 132- Burdick (K) pin Dirico (L) 3:20 Burdick was solid. Dirico was up a weight from his normal 126. 138-Burgess (K) dec Williamson (L) 5-0 Burgess wrestled well, Williamson was close to scoring a couple times. 145- Vanase (L) dec MA. Charron (K) 16-4 Vanase looked really good in this match. He was excellent on his feet and scored well from the top. Note that Vanase normally wrestles 138. 152- Turner (K) dec Crawford (L) 6-2 Great wrestling by Turner. Crawford is extraordinarily tough to turn to his back. Note that Crawford normally wrestles 145. 160- Millbach (L) pin Ferraj (K) 3:44 Millbach was on point start to finish. Best on his feet but continued to press while on top. 170- Caffery (K) dec Crader (L) 6-4 One of the closest matches skill-wise of the night. Both wrestlers looked exhausted as the match progressed. Caffrey’s base and “hips” were better last night. 182- Sullivan (L) dec Gosselin (K) 8-3 Sullivan was working late into the match. Endurance was a big difference in this match. 195- Christians (L) pin Bernier (K) 5:52 Christians was in bad positions several times but credit him with being able to settle back into better rides and executing from the top position. 220- Contino (L) forfeit 285- Mullaney (L) pin Postell (K) 3:46 Mullaney did very well on his feet. Struggled a little from the top but eventually got where he needed for the pin. Side note, what is the deal with the Charron boys’ arm length? They all have a noticeable “Reach” advantage. I don’t say that to be weird or rude or insulting, I just happened to notice as all 4 of them work a Switch well, along with a high rate of success hitting an Ankle Pick on their feet.