Month: July 2018

We are also aware of at least one wrestler, Florida High’s Bryan Metcalf, who’ll compete at UCF and wrestle in NWCA competition in 2018-19.

Before I get into my notes on Boone, I am still waiting for results from the West Florida Open. It is not a meet that I have had results on before. Had hoped, given one of the sponsors, that it would be on Track. Thought that was one of the sponsor’s calling cards. Guess not this time. So I would need event organizers to submit results to me. Soon.

That being said, we had a few holes for Boone. We didn’t have anything from the Harmony Duals or 3A-District 4 Duals events, and we were missing a couple of single duals in January as well. We had only partial results from the Boone girls as well, with just a couple of tournament results.

My invitation to Orlando-area coaches to submit their records to me stands, and I would even go back into previously-posted records sets and amend them — but I would have to get complete results to do that.

The work continues. Next up, we go back to 3A-District 3 with Lake Brantley.

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We did have most of Hagerty’s results this year. The only things we were missing were duals from 3A-District 3’s duals tournament, and the Huskies’ single dual with Apopka. Otherwise, we had everything else.

My invitation to Orlando-area coaches to submit their records to me stands, and I would even go back into previously-posted records sets and amend them — but I would have to get complete results to do that.

The work continues. Next up will be a 3A-District 4 team.

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This morning, we deactivated two of our four Twitter accounts and have shut down the Northwest Florida-specific site.

What does that mean for readership and coverage?

Absolutely nothing as far as I’m concerned. I’m still covering 70+ north Florida wrestling teams, from sea to shining sea. It just simply manages my time slightly more effectively. I still have Arnold’s schedule up (and I’d like to see more dates from the Northwest AND the Northeast).

Now, the “for now” part. It’s still a hope of mine to expand coverage. The where part, I’m not exactly sure about. Brant kills it for statewide coverage and I have less than no desire to compete with him, when my work directly supports his ability to kill it statewide.

That being said, I would like to see the greater Ocala area get more coverage and Matmen could do some of that — if the Ocala-area coaches in 3A-District 2, 2A-District 5 and 1A-District 5 are up for it.

If you’re a coach in that area, and think the coaches would support this, I’m game for covering you as I do for the teams I cover now. Any coaches in that coverage area that want in this year, you’re in — but you have to reach out to me, so that we can bring you in and let you know what we do.

This would be West Port in 3A-2, almost everybody in 2A-5 (I think Springstead is more of a Tampa school, I could be wrong), and everybody in 1A-5 that I don’t already cover, which would be Crystal River and Leesburg. Shoot me an email at nefloridamatmen@gmail.com if you want in.

I’ve also had the pipedream of a South Georgia Matmen going around in my head too. Particularly with the move of Coach Bartolotta to Brunswick, this might happen, as I’ve enjoyed my (too-brief) interactions with Coach Wilder at Camden, and the coaches that I see at (particularly) Yulee’s events, so that would be the guys at Brantley County and Colquitt County.

But I don’t know that it happens this year. Maybe in 2019-20, when Lady Matmen gets here and we get a much more visual component to our little dadblog.

To create a second site, in a second state, I simply must have more of a revenue base from this work than what a gofundme produces. That means advertising, and that probably means content that is supported by advertising. Which we can do, conceptually. It’s just got to be supported.

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We have some updates on the offseason page. There are three events that have updated that page; obviously some things start to wind down as the clock is about to tick over into August and the fall sports season begins.

We also added a new flyer for an in-season event, Gainesville’s Category 5 Duals, scheduled for the first Saturday in February.

We have a few schedules in hand, but could certainly always use more!

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We started 3A-District 3 with DeLand, and we’ll do another 3A-District 3, then will alternate between District 3 and District 4.

We had a lot of results for DeLand, but were missing several duals — 3A-District 3, a pair of Orlando-area duals in January, and the duals event that DeLand hosted (we did have team results, just not individual ones).

We did have all but one of the Milton-Winter Duals and all of its IBT efforts. So overall, most of their match-by-match records we have.

My invitation to Orlando-area coaches to submit their records to me stands, and I would even go back into previously-posted records sets and amend them — but I would have to get complete results to do that.

The work continues.

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We have our fourth schedule that came in earlier tonight. Oakleaf’s dates are now part of the master calendar.

The Clay County Knights kick off December with a home dual on the 5th against the St Johns County Knights, Creekside. Oakleaf will then take part in the Westside Kiwanis IBT, hosted by Bishop Snyder on the 7th and 8th. It will contest its Senior Night dual early, with a home dual against Middleburg on the 12th. For the rest of the month, the Knights will compete in dual tournaments, with Buchholz’s Bobcat Holiday Duals on the docket for December 21-22 and Columbia’s Tiger Duals on the 29th.

Oakleaf will kick off 2019 with an appearance at county rival Fleming Island’s two-day Robert Northway “Keystone” Memorial on January 4-5, and will compete in 3A-District 1 dual team competition on the 9th. From there, the Knights will take part in two Tennessee events in Johnson City, with the Tennessee Duals on the 11th and an IBT event, the Fanetti-Richardson Brawl, on the 12th. Oakleaf will return to Florida competition on the 19th with the one-day Trojan Invitational IBT, hosted by Lincoln, and then will close out the month with road duals, first at Orange Park on the 23rd and at Matanzas on the 30th.

The Knights have just one regular-season event in February, that being the Green Cove Springs Rotary, hosted by Clay, on February 8-9.

So that’s our fourth schedule in hand. Which school is going to be NEXT??

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The north Florida region had two wrestlers competing at Fargo during the course of the previous week.

Nease rising senior Jacob Satterfield competed in the Junior division of both freestyle and Greco-Roman disciplines, at 145 pounds. His Greco experience was a bit better, with a 1-2 tournament performance. After an opening-round 16-6 VSU1 loss to Minnesota’s Sebas Swiggum, Satterfield decisioned another Minnesotan, Spencer Miller, by a 4-4 count.

In freestyle, Satterfield was 0-2, with a 10-0 VSU loss to Ohio’s Enrique Munguia, followed by a 6-4 VFA loss to Missouri’s Blake Ackerman.

Matanzas rising sophomore Riley White competed in both the Cadet and Junior divisions of the women’s freestyle event, at 112. White was 0-2 in both divisions.

In Cadets, White took 10-0 VSU losses to Pennsylvania’s Montana Delawder and Wisconsin’s Gwendolyn Golueke, while in Junior her losses — also by 10-0 VSU counts — were to Wisconsin’s Josie Bartishofski and Washington’s Jennifer Nguyen.

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Was alerted to this in email I was sent while I was up north this past weekend. Not sayin just sayin, but the two daily newspapers in my hometown do not presently have wrestling beat writers. Both would certainly love to see that changed, and while I do not presently have plans to make a move, I have five very good reasons to do so even above and beyond the wrestling.

My being here has been hard on (at least) three of those reasons.

But there’s the snow and ice. Not to mention the pay cut I would most likely have to take to move back north. So the site’s continuing existence is probably safe for the time being, but let’s have some love out there, people.

We’re cleaning up the inbox — I have already posted on Brandon Dickman winning the Pat Fairfax Scholarship Award — and learning about Arnold’s schedule that was posted to Twitter. I have seen another school’s schedule — let’s just say they’re in 2A-District 2 — but don’t have official word that it’s complete. I also need to run through FloArena for a Fargo check.

So, the Marlins. First school west of Clay County to report in, Arnold will begin its season with South Walton’s Border Wars on December 7-8, one of the Southeast’s premier tournaments. The Marlins then have a dual with Rutherford on December 14 (the PDF I have does not note which school will host), and will stay in the Gulf area with Fort Walton Beach’s Beast of the Beach before Christmas (December 21-22) and (I think Mosley’s) Panhandle Championship after (December 28-29).

Arnold will open January with the two-day North Bay Haven Bash (serving as physical host this year will be Bay), on January 4-5. The Marlins will have a Friday night dual with Bay on January 11 (again, host not known), then travel to Wewahitchka for the Gator Brawl on the 18th and 19th. Arnold will have its longest trip of the regular season on January 26, as it will compete in Bishop Snyder’s North Florida Duals on that date.

The Marlins will have three dates on the February regular-season part of the calendar, competing in Wakulla’s one-day IBT on the 2nd, traveling to Tallahassee for Chiles’ Timberwolf Duals on the 9th and then hosting the Bay County Championship on the 16th (I think they’re hosting; they have hosted the previous stagings). I don’t have district dual dates yet.

So that gives us three schedules. Which school will be NEXT?

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