March 4, 2016 at 3:57 p.m.
JWMS wrestling hands out awards
JWMS wrestling hands out awards
Chase Redmond and Hunter Greyhair shared the team's most valuable wrestler award, Walker Hartman was honored as the team's captain, Isaac Bixby and Tim Fox were the co-recipients of the "Mini Machine" award and Trevor Knapp received the most improved award.
The Hodags finished fifth in the Central Wisconsin Wrestling Conference and went 190-190 in individual matches this season.
"We were only 17 1/2 points behind third place, 5 1/2 behind fourth place in our big conference tournament at the end of the year," middle school coach Tyler Rupert said. "We wrestled really, really well as a team."
Several middle school grapplers will be set to join the RHS squad next year and head coach Paul Ellenbecker delivered a message to the soon-to-be freshmen during the banquet.
"Stick with it, work hard and really believe," he said. "There's going to be a moment where you guys will be out there in meaningful matches and you'll be wrestling for conference titles, regional titles, sectional titles and, hopefully, state titles. But you guys have got to stick together and work hard."
Jeremy Mayo may be reached at [email protected].
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