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RONNIE’S RAMBLINGS
Wrestling
State Champs Vol 02 Issue 30 02.22.2016 PUBLISHED BY Wilson Photography
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2016 Indiana State High School Wrestling Champions from Hendricks County - Upper right - Asa Garcia from Avon, high School, left - Brock Hudkins of Danville Community Hi, lower right - Brayton Lee of Brownsburg High School Cover photo:
WHAT TO EXPECT
In this issue...
Ronnie’s Ramblings
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Boys Swim/Dive
Seven
Boys Basketball
Twenty-Seven
County Results
Thirty-nine
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By Ronnie Wilson
RONNIE’S RAMBLINGS
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t is time for me to get on a soap-box again. (I have a strong suspicion, I may get on my soap-box several times between now and the end of this school year/last issue of Ronnie’s Ramblings.) I never have been or am I now a fan of class high school sports. I am less a fan of exceptions that run counter to the professed reasoning of class sports; a more level playing field, especially for smaller population schools, and exceptions that are not made that would be in line with the original philosophy. This week’s point of irritation is the random draw of most post season tournaments. Seeding allows for theatrically better teams to have a high probability of meeting in the
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sectional championship contest; which in turn would probably increase interest and fan draw (read more money). The current random draw
leaves open the possibility of high caliber teams meeting in the first round and weaker teams potentially advancing to the championship contest.
The sectional final can, and has been on several occasions, an embarrassing rout. Such mismatches do nothing for the sport, the schools and most importantly the student/athletes. The other up side to seeding is with the potential for a weaker team or teams to have a Cinderella victory,, which is also
part of the allure of post season tournaments. That is about it for this week’s tirade. Subjects that may make it prior to the last issue are things such as moving a team up a class because they had an outstanding season or two; public schools and private schools in different classes.
I know these topics have been presented previously, but I like to vent and release some frustration by voicing my opinions here. Now for a lighter item. A burglar breaks into a house. He starts shining his light around looking for valuables. Some nice things catch his eye, and as he reaches for them, he hears, “Jesus is watching you.” Startled, the burglar looks for the speaker. Seeing no one, he keeps putting things in his bag, again, he hears, “Jesus is watching you.” This time, he sees a parrot. “Who are you?” the burglar asks. “Moses,” the bird replied. “Who the heck would name a bird Moses?” the man laughed. “I dunno,” Moses answered, “I guess the same kind of people who would name a Rottweiler Jesus.”
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Sectional Swimming/Diving Individual/Relay Event Champions From Hendricks County - 2016 At Avon Event At Brownsburg
*AHS - Garrett Hammons,
200 Medley BHS - William Lukens, Chandler Bray, Relay Frank Schoemer, Vince Partlow and Kevin Gast, Grant Sprout Noah Pearson AHS - Vince Partlow 200 Freestyle --AHS - Chandler Bray 200 Individual BHS - Andrew Fulwider Medley AHS - Grant Sprout 50 Freestyle --*TWHS - Evan Cooper 1 Meter Diving --AHS - Vince Partlow 100 Butterfly BHS - Kevin Gast AHS - Grant Sprout 100 Freestyle BHS - Frank Schoemer AHS - Westin Fink 500 Freestyle BHS - Kevin Gast * AHS - Grant Sprout, 200 Freestyle BHS - William Lukens, Vishaal Mali, Relay Andrew Fulwider Chandler Bray and Braden Jackson, Vince Partlow Noah Pearson AHS - Garrett Hammons 100 --Backstroke * AHS - Chandler Bray 100 BHS - Frank Schoemer Breaststroke AHS - Vishaal Mali, 400 Freestyle BHS - Kevin Gast, Duncan Emsweller Relay Andrew Fulwider, Garrett Hammons, and Braden Jackson, Connor Capstick Frank Schoemer
* New Sectional Record
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Tri-West’s Evan Cooper is the 2016 Avon Sectional champion, setting a new sectional record of 557.4.
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Avon’s Vince Partlow comes off of the start block for the Butterfly portion of the 200 Medley Relay. Partlow and his relay te member of the championship
eam members are the sectional champions. Patlow is also the sectional champion in the 200 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly and a ip 200 Freestyle Relay squad.
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Avon’s Grant Sprout comes off of the start block of the 50 Freestyle. Sprout is the sectional champion of the event as w champions
well as the sectional champion in the 100 Freestyle, and a member of the 200 medley Relay and 200 Freestyle sectional ship squads.
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Avon’s Garrett Hammons prepares to start his sectional championship win in the 100 Backstroke.
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Avon’s Chandler Bray swims the Breaststroke portion of the sectional championship 200 Medley Relay squad. Bray is also the 100 Breaststroke sectional champion and is a member of the sectional championship 200 Individual Medley,and the 200 Freestyle relay squad.
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Avon’s Vishaal Mali begins the 400 Freestyle Relay while the other members of
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f the relay squad support him. They are the sectional champions of their event. .
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Avon’s Duncan Emsweller swims the 2nd leg of the
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e sectional championship 400 Freestyle Relay squad.
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Avon’s Connor Capstick explodes off of the start block for the anc
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chor leg of the 400 Freestyle Relay sectional championship squad.
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Brownsburg’s Andrew Fulrider swims the Backstroke por
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tion of the 200 Individual Medley in sectional competition.
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Brownsburg’s Noah Pearson swims the Freestyle port
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tion of the 200 Medley Relay in sectional competition.
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Brownsburg’s Jack Lukens begins the 200 Medley Relay in sectional competition.
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Brownsburg’s Frank Schoemer swims the Breaststroke portion of the 200 Medley Relay in sectional competition.
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Tri-West’s Jake Hill learns a new definition of “in your face” versus North Montgomery.
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Tri-West’s Matthew Chinn makes
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a save versus North Montgomery.
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Tri-West’s Nick Rabe versus North Montgomery.
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Brownsburg’s Landon hall secures a defensive rebound versus Plainfield.
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Plainfield’s Max Kurkowski controls the opening tip against Brownsburg.
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Brownsburg’s Adrian Chapman powers his way to the basket versus Plainfield.
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Plainfield’s Conner Brens grabs an offensive rebound against Brownsburg.
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Brownsburg’s Zach McKeownn shoots and scores from beyond the three-point arc versus Plainfield.
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State Wrestling Championship - 2016
Individual Hendricks County To Four Finishes Wt
Name
School Finish
106 Asa Garcia AHS Champion Ty Mills BHS 3rd 120 Blake Mulkey BHS 3rd 126 Brock Hudkins DCHS Champion 138 Brandon Lee BHS Champion 170 Nathan Walton BHS 3rd 182 CJ Damler BHS 4th 220 Gunnar Larson AHS 2nd
Hendricks County Team Results
Avon - 9th. Brownsburg - 2nd. Danville - 16th.
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County Results Basketball - Boys
Avon - Lost to Nobelsville,
60-53. Jack McCue and Shawn Moore scored 15 points each. Lost to Greenfield-Central, 80-68.
Brownsburg - Defeated
Plainfield, 55-39. Brownsburg’s Adrian Chapman led all scorerrs with 14 points. Teammate Jacarr Boone also scored in double figures with 11 points. For Plainfield, Gavin Bizeau tallied 13 points. Lost to Hamilton SE, 66-55. Landon Hall led the Bulldog scoring with 13 points. Teammate Cameron Alford was also in double figures with 11 points. Cascade -
Danville - Defeated Lebanon, 46-43. Three Warriors scored in double figures, Jake Elliot, Ryan Clonc and Alex Burton, with 13, 11 and 10 Defeated Crawfordsville, 5734. Plainfield - Lost to Frank-
lin, 56-43. Max Kurkowski led the Quaker scoring with 14 points. Tri-West - Defeated North Montgomery, 63-55. Defeated Indian Creek, 95-87 2OT.
Swim/Dive Boys
See page 6 for event champions
Avon - Avon Sectional champion. Brownsburg Brownsburg sectional champion. Cascade - 10th at Avon
Danville - 11th at Avon.
Plainfield - 4th at Avon.
Tri-West - 7th at Avon.
Wrestling
See page 38 for individual and team results.
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