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New Team Records Update: Deltona

Welcome to our next project, in which we are compiling records updates for our new teams that will be joining us in 2019-20. Our fifth new team will be part of the new 2A-District 4 along with Matanzas, St Augustine and Belleview. Next up, alphabetically, is Deltona. And we were very lucky this go-round; Deltona reports EVERYTHING to Track (And so should your team).

Here’s their records update: DELTONA

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ON THIS DAY: 159 Days Ago…Part 2?

I promise it’s not Groundhog Day.

159 days ago…February 22, 2019.

Matmen Don’t Know? 2A-District 1. 159 days ago, we published our 2A-District 1 predictions, both team and individual. Let’s see how we did. Brackets for that district can be found here.

Team: 1. Pace. 2. Gulf Breeze. 3. Ft Walton Beach. 4. Niceville. 5. Crestview. 6. Choctaw. 7. Milton. 8. Tate.
Reasons: Pace and Gulf Breeze had established themselves as the top teams from the dual tournament onward. Ft Walton had a strong close to the season, and Niceville and Crestview had appeared to be the strongest of the rest of the group.
Actual: 1. Pace. 2. Ft Walton Beach. 3. Gulf Breeze. 4. Niceville. 5. Choctaw. 6. Crestview. 7. Tate. 8. Milton.
What happened, Matmen?: While Gulf Breeze was missing one or two quite-important starters, which might have made a difference (the gap between second and third was just eight points), what also happened was that Ft Walton continued to close the season in an absolute fury. Choctaw and Tate also performed above expectations. If the Aggies had had more kids, they might have finished as high as fifth.

Individual:
106
Predicted: 1. Brandon Walls, Gulf Breeze. 2. Deagan Kilpatrick, Choctaw. 3. Reid Gannon, Ft Walton Beach. 4. Grace Moore, Niceville.
Actual: 1. Walls. 2. Kilpatrick. 3. Moore. 4. Gannon. Got the qualifiers right, but Matmen really should have noticed that Moore had majored Gannon 22-10 at Border Wars. C’mon Matmen.

113
Predicted: 1. David Tambula, Choctaw. 2. Max Kronlage, Gulf Breeze. 3. Atticus Waters, Pace. 4. Noah Tritz, Niceville.
Actual: 1. Tambula. 2. Waters. 3. Tritz. 4. Kronlage. Same as 106; I did hedge a bet that I wouldn’t be surprised to see some movement. More homework needed doing, though, clearly.

120
Projected: 1. Ian Daily, Gulf Breeze. 2. Brandon Mallin, Ft Walton Beach. 3. Derrick Lancero, Pace. 4. Ethan Bueno, Niceville.
Actual: 1. Lancero. 2. Mallin. 3. David Luckey, Tate. 4. Logan Merritt, Gulf Breeze. OK, not knowing that Daily was hurt was a bit of a setback, but definitely slept on Luckey in this one.

126
Projected: 1. Weston Burbidge, Ft Walton Beach. 2. Tyler Tran, Pace. 3. Kelly Scanlon, Gulf Breeze. 4. Jay Pinto, Niceville.
Actual: 1. Scanlon. 2. Tran. 3. Pinto. 4. Burbidge. In fairness to my pick at the time, because I know Scanlon’s mom is gonna be reading this, Tran had two earlier pins in the regular season over Scanlon, and I did at least get the qualifiers right.

132
Projected: 1. Ethan Billhimer, Pace. 2. Michael Walls, Gulf Breeze. 3. Karter Watson, Crestview. 4. Maquis Muniz, Ft Walton Beach. Dark horse: Ty Hawkins, Niceville.
Actual: 1. Billhimer. 2. Walls. 3. Ian Van Gestel, Milton. 4. Watson. Van Gestel was a senior AND also avenged a pigtail loss by fall to Watson; Ft Walton had another wrestler at 132.

138
Projected: 1. Keane Creager, Niceville. 2. Seth O’Gara, Pace. 3. Dylan Lawrence, Gulf Breeze. 4. Ismond Santiago, Ft Walton Beach.
Actual: 1. Creager. 2. Lawrence. 3. O’Gara. 4. Paul Fina, Tate. Ft Walton had another wrestler at 138, and Fina established himself with a shutout major in the quarters. Bracketing had Creager and O’Gara in the same half.

145
Projected: 1. Carlos Bogan, Ft Walton Beach. 2. Calvin Malo, Gulf Breeze. 3. Joseph Cortez, Pace. 4. Malachi Santiago, Crestview.
Actual: 1. Bogan. 2. Malo. 3. Cortez. 4. Santiago. Finally. The blind squirrel finds the acorn. Panhandle picks have always been tough for me.

152
Projected: 1. Kishma Davis, Pace. 2. Logan Myers, Choctaw. 3. Collin Lentz, Niceville. 4. Caleb Tourgee, Ft Walton Beach.
Actual: 1. Davis. 2. Lentz. 3. Myers. 4. Tourgee. I expected a war in that bottom-half semi between Myers and Lentz, both leaders of their teams, I didn’t expect it to be a 15-6 margin.

160
Projected: 1. Nate Golmon, Pace. 2. Corban Ferguson, Ft Walton Beach. 3. Hunter Pelfrey, Choctaw. 4. Daniel McDonal, Milton.
Actual: 1. Golmon. 2. McDonal. 3. Ferguson. 4. McCoy Lamb, Niceville. I had Lamb as a dark hose and he hammered one of my picks; McDonal had a really nice tournament, with two pins to reach the final.

170
Projected: 1. Eddie Alexis, Ft Walton Beach. 2. Paul Roberts, Choctaw. 3. Phillip Frazetta, Gulf Breeze. 4. Brody Andrews, Pace. Dark horse: Luke Baker, Crestview. Note: I like the bottom-half semi’s competitiveness here.
Actual: 1. Alexis. 2. Roberts. 3. Matthew Murphy, Niceville. 4. Andrews. Murphy, who didn’t get a mention in my preview, tossed that preview in the trash, with three wins in the tournament, losing only to Alexis.

182
Projected: 1. Austin Earle, Gulf Breeze. 2. Kaleb Williams, Ft Walton Beach. 3. Sean Ripley, Niceville. 4. Dylan Glausier, Crestview.
Actual: 1. John Gunther, Pace. 2. Ripley. 3. Williams. 4. Earle. Gunther had been hurt since December and only came back for this tournament; I would have picked him, had I known. Williams was in the same half with Gunther. Ripley pinned my champ pick in the semi.

195
Projected: 1. Wyatt Dillon, Pace. 2. Azaya Purifoy, Tate. 3. Patrick Adams, Ft Walton Beach. 4. Mathew Sharp, Crestview.
Actual: 1. Purifoy. 2. Dillon. 3. Adams. 4. Aiden Savage, Choctaw. I said there might be some play for fourth, and I was right, but I should have followed Brant’s rankings with respect to the final.

220
Projected: 1. Spencer Mackenzie, Ft Walton Beach. 2. Kennard Madden, Crestivew. 3. Kevin Burgess, Tate. 4. Michael Poole, Pace.
Actual: 1. Madden. 2. Burgess. 3. Ramsey Kidder, Niceville. 4. Poole. Flat miss on my part. While I have more wins for Mackenzie than what was reported to the district host, Madden was the clear choice. He was the only guy with a better-than-.500 record.

285
Projected: 1. Cameron Goodenow, Pace. 2. Weston Tew, Crestview. 3. Luther Fagalima, Ft Walton Beach. 4. Alec Cavazos, Milton.
Actual: 1. Tew. 2. Goodenow. 3. Cameron Anderson, Gulf Breeze. No 4th. My third- and fourth-place picks didn’t compete, and while Tew had been a state threat in seasons past, I just didn’t have enough body of work this year to know if he was ready for the post-season. He was.

So. How’d we do?

Do I even need to ask? Badly. Just eight champion picks were accurate. Ten kids I didn’t pick to get out, got out. One of them even won districts and probably — if they’d been able to compete at the level — would have gotten out to state.

My guy. Do more homework next year. Be better. Maybe a road-trip out once or twice this year would help.

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New Team Records Update: Forest

Welcome to our next project, in which we are compiling records updates for our new teams that will be joining us in 2019-20. Our fourth new team will be part of the new 3A-District 2 along with Buchholz, Flagler Palm Coast and DeLand. Next up, alphabetically, is Forest HS out of Ocala. We do not have a full set of results; and we’re going to be very lucky if any of these will be full sets of results (Forest did not wrestle a full set of events in 2018-19). Next year, of course, we hope for different.

Here’s their records update: FOREST

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ON THIS DAY: 159 (?) Days Ago

159 days ago…Matmen Don’t Know? 3A-District 1.

159 days ago, we published our 3A-District 1 predictions, both team and individual.

Let’s see how we did. Brackets can be found here. 

Team: 1. Fleming Island. 2. Buchholz. 3. First Coast. 4. Flagler Palm Coast. 5. Fletcher. 6. Sandalwood. 7. Atlantic Coast. 8. Oakleaf. 9. Robert E. Lee. 10. Mandarin.
Reasons: We felt the top two teams were locks, based on team dual tournament successes and lineup strength. First Coast had made a run to the Gateway title a month earlier, so they needed to be ahead of the rest of the Gateway teams, and they’d beaten Flagler (though Flagler had beaten the Buccaneers, too).
Actual: 1. Fleming Island. 2. Buchholz. 3. Fletcher. 4. Flagler Palm Coast. 5. Oakleaf. 6. Sandalwood. 7. Mandarin. 8. Robert E. Lee. 9. First Coast. 10. Atlantic Coast.
What happened, Matmen?: Fletcher wrestled to a higher level than at Gateway. Having Stanley back helped some. Oakleaf’s top kids shone brighter as well and that helped them. Mandarin had struggled this year, but their individuals also scored well, as they beat three teams with more entries. First Coast could not find the momentum it had had at Gateway.

Individual:
106
Predicted: 1. Hunter Herrington, Fleming Island. 2. Aiden Moore, Buchholz. 3. Nathan Bremer, Mandarin. 4. Marcus McGee, Oakleaf.
Actual: 1. Herrington. 2. Moore. 3. McGee. 4. Bremer. Nice tournament for McGee, two majors on the back against more-experienced kids.

113
Predicted: 1. Riley Holton, Fleming Island. 2. Jonah Ingram, First Coast. 3. Joseph Rizzo, Flagler Palm Coast. 4. Venumadhava Mirel, Buchholz.
Actual: 1. Holton. 2. Rizzo. 3. Mirel. 4. Eric Harper, Atlantic Coast. Ingram didn’t wrestle; I had listed Harper as a dark horse, so — in a way — this was right.

120
Predicted: 1. Briar Jackson, Fleming Island. 2. Bryan Perkins, Buchholz. 3. Jason Schwartz, First Coast. 4. Abdiert Escobar, Oakleaf.
Actual: 1. Jackson. 2. Perkins. 3. Escobar. 4. Evan St Pierre, Flagler Palm Coast. Schwartz bumped to 26 and I had St Pierre as a dark horse. As at 113, I was — sort of — right.

126
Predicted: 1. Ryan Hobson, Fleming Island. 2. Kevin Thompson, Atlantic Coast. 3. Owen Bronson, Oakleaf. 4. Devon Bell, Buchholz.
Actual: 1. Hobson. 2. Schwartz. 3. Thompson. 4. Juvens Augustin, Sandalwood. I said a hard charger could get out in this weight; Augustin was that hard charger.

132
Predicted: 1. Drew Dance, Flagler Palm Coast. 2. Jamison Harris, Mandarin. 3. Dalton Baysinger, Fleming Island. 4. Logan Gilbert, Oakleaf.
Actual: 1. Baysinger. 2. Harris. 3. Dance. 4. Gilbert. I hedged a couple bets on this one by saying I wouldn’t be surprised if the order shifted around. Which, as we see, it did.

138
Predicted: 1. Dalton Williams, Fleming Island. 2. Blane DeFord, Flagler Palm Coast. 3. Hunter Griffin, Buchholz. 4. Tyler Dalldorf, Fletcher.
Actual: 1. Williams. 2. DeFord. 3. Griffin. 4. Dalldorf. Occasionally, I know things.

145
Predicted: 1. Gannon Janssen, Fleming Island. 2. Lavaughn Brown, Sandalwood. 3. David Parkes, Oakleaf. 4. DeAngelo Fletcher, Buchholz.
Actual: 1. Janssen. 2. Parkes. 3. Fletcher. 4. Brown. The seeding didn’t go the way I thought it might. Fletcher had a great tournament, losing only to Janssen in the semi.

152
Predicted: 1. Luke Chop, Fleming Island. 2. Billy Green-Church, Buchholz. 3. Ahmahd Denmark, Robert E. Lee. 4. Tyson Petrie, Fletcher.
Actual: 1. Chop. 2. Green-Church. 3. Denmark. 4. Petrie. See 138.

160
Predicted: 1. Tanner Hill, Fleming Island. 2. Tracen Ransdell, Buchholz. 3. Leonardo Alonzo, Sandalwood. 4. Stone Rockhill, Fletcher.
Actual: 1. Hill. 2. Ransdell. 3. Alonzo. 4. Rockhill. I said some hard-fought consi matches. Rockhill had to go double-OT to extend his season a week.

170
Predicted: 1. Gavin Smith, Fleming Island. 2. Matt Vann, Buchholz. 3. Devante Wyatt, First Coast. 4. Joel Rodriguez, Fletcher.
Actual: 1. Smith. 2. Vann. 3. Wyatt. 4. Rodriguez. I said not much room for upset specials, but Lee’s Easton Bruce nearly pulled one in the blood round (Rodriguez also nearly did in the semi).

182
Predicted: 1. Armando Acosta, Buchholz. 2. Anthony Breeden, Fleming Island. 3. Michael Strong, Fletcher. 4. Joshua Newkirk, Sandalwood.
Actual: 1. Breeden. 2. Acosta. 3. Strong. 4. Newkirk. The upset special came at this weight; a really good tournament for Breeden.

195
Predicted: 1. Chad Nix, Fleming Island. 2. Lawrence Smith-Jackson, Buchholz. 3. Christopher Telusma, Robert E. Lee. 4. Mathew Strong, Fletcher.
Actual: 1. Nix. 2. Smith-Jackson. 3. Telusma. 4. Strong. See 138, 152, 160, 170. The district went on to put three wrestlers in the top eight at Kissimmee.

220
Predicted: 1. Jeffrey Lascano, Fleming Island. 2. Nevan Burney, Buchholz. 3. Ethan Hollenbach, Fletcher. 4. Kevin Castro, Mandarin.
Actual: 1. Lascano. 2. Burney. 3. Hollenbach. 4. Seth Miller, Atlantic Coast. In which I continued to be gobsmacked at the difference between Miller in December and Miller at crunchtime, which is to his credit.

285
Predicted: 1. Stanley Hollenbach, Fletcher. 2. Anthony Cinelli, Flagler Palm Coast. 3. Raul Gonzalez, Fleming Island. 4. Nick WIlbur, Mandarin.
Actual: 1. Hollenbach. 2. Gonzalez. 3. Wilbur. 4. Gus Martinez, First Coast. Gonzalez made it 14-for-14 Fleming kids in the finals. Martinez was our dark horse, and it took a double-overtime and a UTB to knock out Cinelli.

So. How’d we do?

Got 13 champs right out of 14, with a predicted finalist taking the 14th. Even a non-technical guy like me recognizes game.

Only five kids that I said would not make it to regions did actually get out.

Guys, while this could be interpreted that I know what I’m doing, the REAL takeaway from this is, never take my picks as gospel. Look at Miller. He wasn’t even listed as a dark horse at 220, and not only did he get out, he almost got to states the following weekend. Anything’s possible on the day.

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New Team Records Update: Atlantic

Welcome to our next project, in which we are compiling records updates for our new teams that will be joining us in 2019-20. Our third new team will join six current area teams in the new 1A-District 5 next year. There are two of those new teams joining in; first alphabetically among those is Atlantic. Keep in mind, as they were not an area team in previous years, we’re going to be very lucky if any of these will be full sets of results (Atlantic’s was pretty full but by no means complete). Next year, of course, we hope for different.

Here’s their records update: ATLANTIC

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ON THIS DAY: 1300 Days Ago

1300 days ago…January 6, 2016.

It was a busy day for us. We wrote two articles on wrestling going on that evening.

The event we covered was a Gateway Conference tri-meet at Lee that included Englewood and Fletcher. It got a little crazy at the end because the evening got a late start and by the end, the event pushed Duval County’s 10 p.m. embargo of athletic events to the straining point. We didn’t even have time to get quotes from coaches, we were hustled out with moments left on the clock.

Plus, they had to call in first responders to deal with multiple injuries that were sustained. Nothing too bad, folks, it was all on the mat; but it was bad enough for the kids involved.

I’d thought Lee was going to be good that year, but the Generals hadn’t shown all of their cards in December. In January, though, even with two solid bigs (Erik Sumter ’17 and now-South Florida footballer Demetris Harris ’17) out of the lineup, they were better, and pushed past Fletcher, 40-33, after an earlier 44-36 win over Englewood. Fletcher would defeat the Rams, 59-24.

Best matches of the night were Lee’s Tony Belle (’16)‘s 5-0 win over Englewood’s Michel Augustin (’17) at 160 (both would later go on to eventually qualify for states before their careers ended), and a 4-3 win for the Generals’ Jaren Jefferson (’17); Jefferson would move out-of-state for his senior season) over Fletcher’s Tyler Dalldorf (’17).

The article I wrote can be found here.

The big dual of the night, which was contested in St Johns County, was Bartram Trail’s 46-21 dual win over Creekside.

(Side note: To be completely truthful about it, I wasn’t sure what I was going to get from the Lee tri-meet if I wasn’t there to pick it up myself. To pull you behind the curtain a bit, sometimes coverage decisions do get made that way. We’ve tried not to do this so much now that we’re six-seven years into this, but this was a consideration in the first 2-3 years of the site).

It was the first time the Bears had beaten the Knights in a dual meet, and the two would match up once again just three days later at the Creekside duals (Bartram would win again, but it would be closer, 36-28). Best match of the night was John Wilson (’16)‘s 14-13 win over the Knights’ Willy Lulias (’16) at 182; Creekside’s Gus Fischer (’16) had an 8-1 decision over Bartram’s Kolton McDaniel (’18) at 220.

Two other duals made the roundup, with Bishop Kenny taking down Bolles, 44-24, in a matchup of 1A-District 4 rivals. Bolles got the win in the spotlight match of the night, though, as the Bulldogs’ Conner Cronk (’16) took down BK’s Kyle Black (’16), 6-4, at 138. The dual also saw then-BK freshman Andrew Slade (’19) win in sudden victory at 132 over who would become his primary rival over the next two seasons, Bolles’ KJ Fagan (’19), 10-8.

It was a tough night for the at-the-time freshman-laden Bishop Snyder team, which fell to Ridgeview, 64-12. The Panthers had three pins and a major, with the Cardinals taking two pins.

The roundup I wrote can be found here.

All of the dual results for these (click on the Week 6 duals PDF once you get to the page) can be found here.

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New Team Records Update: Belleview

Welcome to our next project, in which we are compiling records updates for our new teams that will be joining us in 2019-20. Our second new team will join Matanzas and St Augustine in the new 2A-District 4 next year; first alphabetically among those is Belleview. Keep in mind, as they were not an area team in previous years, we’re going to be very lucky if any of these will be full sets of results. Next year, of course, we hope for different.

Here’s their records update: BELLEVIEW

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New Team Records Update: Deland

Welcome to our next project, in which we are compiling records updates for our new teams that will be joining us in 2019-20. We will begin with the teams that will join Flagler Palm Coast and Buchholz in 3A-District 2. First up among those, alphabetically, is DeLand (Trackwrestling has it as Deland, we’ll be working extra-hard to make sure we have it right).

Here’s their records update: DELAND

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3A-District 1: #TheSeason2018-19

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2A-District 4: #TheSeason2018-19

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