This week at GHS!

Monday is the beginning and end. It's the beginning of the spring sports season for softball and the official ending to the winter season at GHS.

The softball team starts mandatory practices on Monday after school. But, due to the sectional basketball tournament, the girls will practice in the Ober Gym until about 5pm.

The IHSAA sectional championship will be held in the Bateman gym tommorrow. The game begins at 7pm. Concordia takes on Dwenger. Cost for the single game is $6.

Friday night our boys and girls track teams will participate in the first annual acac indoor track meet. The meet will be held at the new IPFW, indoor track facility. Entry to the meet is free. Field events begin at 5pm.

More cancellations! Rescheduling Nightmares!

I wake up in the middle of the night from nightmares about rescheduling spring events. I don't have nightmares about scary movies. I have nightmares about rescheduling Spring Athletic Contests. The last two days has been crazy with spring cancellations. We have cancelled 8 High School events the last two days. My biggest problem is trying to get them rescheduled. It seems like it should be so easy to reschedule games, but it's not. I spent extended time on the phone the last two days with my fellow athletic directors to try to find dates to reschedule these 8 events. So far, no luck.  I just checked and we have only 4 open dates to re-schedule our baseball games. We can't use Fridays because those are reserved for conference games. We have senior night on one of our open dates and the IHSAA limits the number of games we can play during the week. With all that information and our opponents having the same information, it's not surprising we could not come up with dates that would work. So today I sent out an email to area schools to see if we could add one of them to the schedule to get our teams some more games. So far no response. Softball has the same issues. Both Baseball and softball have some low numbers this year and jv games have also been an issue. Both of those teams are playing on a day-by-day basis. Tonight's track meet and Golf Match also has some issues. Now we have to coordinate the schedules for 3 schools instead of just two. It has  been really wild and their is no end in sight!

Even if I get lucky enough to reschedule a game, I have to find new umpires and workers to actually play the game. I think I'm getting a headache!

We will do what we can to get contests for our student-athletes. It's not always easy. But it's worth it!

Go Railroaders!

Busy week with GHS Athletics!

Just got back from a weekend trip. I didn't get stats from Saturday's events. But, It sounds like we had a pretty good Saturday. Our Varsity Baseball team took two games from Whitko, our Boys Track team got 2nd place at the Monument City Relays, and our Golf Team got 5th at the Brookwood Invitational.

Congrats to the teams. As we get ready for another busy week, we hope the weather cooperates to get all our games played as scheduled.

Varsity Baseball -- The Boys  have a busy week playing games on Monday (vs Dwenger), Tuesday (vs. Blackhawk), Thursday (@Woodlan), and Saturday (DH vs East Noble). The home games begin at 5pm on Monday and at 6pm on Tuesday. The away games begin at 5pm on Thursday, and 10am on Saturday.

Varsity Softball -- The Girls have an even busier schedule than the Boys. They play Monday (630pm @Fairfield), Wednesday (6pm vs Hamilton), Thursday (5pm @Woodlan), and the Dekalb Showdown on Friday and Saturday. Those games will be played at Lakewood Park.

Track -- Both track teams travel to Leo for an ACAC Triangular meet with Bluffton and Leo on Tuesday. Then Saturday the girls travel to Churubusco and the boys travel to Goshen for Invitationals.

Golf -- The Boys golf team travels to Bluffton for an ACAC Quad match on Tuesday, Host Fort Wayne Southside on Wednesday, and then end the week at South Adams for their invitational on Saturday.

As you can see it is a very busy week, pray for sun and good weather!  Good Luck Railroaders!

Track Teams Split

The Railroader Track teams split tonight in the first ACAC meets of the season. The teams traveled to South Adams to take on the Starfires and the Jets of Adams Central. Both Boys and Girls teams were defeated by South Adams and beat both Jet teams.

Jordyn Knott continued her winning ways remaining undefeated for the season. She won the 4 events she was entered, 100m, 200m, High Jump and Long Jump. Heather House won both hurdle events and got a 3rd in Long Jump. Laura Moynahan got both first place ribbons in the Shot Put and Discus.

For the Boys, Todd Frickey continued to dominate the sprints winning the 100m, 200m, and a member of the winning 4x100 team. The other 400m relay team members were Christian Miller, Jamarius Mitchell, and Desmond Kessler.  Patrick Chester won high Jump and Drake Landes won the Long Jump.  Desmond Kessler was also 2nd place in the 400m run, Jaron Summers was 2nd in 3200m run, Mat Schultz was 2nd in both the SHot Put and Discus.

The Boys travel to Monument City to participate in the annual relays at Angola High School on Saturday. Bundle up... the weather is supposed to be cold and rainy!

Good Luck Track teams!

First Track Meet 2011-- Part 1

Garrett traveled to Dekalb tonight to take on the Baron Boys/Girls Track teams. The Lady Railroaders lost 78-46, but had some great individual performances.

Jordyn Knott got 4 individual 1st places in the Long Jump, High Jump, 100m, and the 200m.
Taylor Drzewiecki ogt 1st place in Pole Vault. Elaina had 2 second place finishes in the 100m and 200m. The following also earned 2nd place finishes -- Emma Riedly (400m), Kaitlin Hinkle (800m), Ariel McCoy (3200m), Laura (Discus).

The Boys result was much the same as the girls (78-49). Todd Frickey led the Railroaders by setting the GHS record in the 100m with a sprint of 10.8 seconds.  He also won the 200m and place 3rd in the High Jump. Jaron Sommers won the 1600m and 3200m,  Patrick Chester got a 1st in the High Jump, Jamarius Mitchell got 1st in the Long Jump and 2nd in the 200m,   Kendall Slabaugh got 1st place in the 800m, Robert Deventer got 2nd in Discus, and Desmond Kessler got 2nd in the 400m.

Great performances. Next up Adams Central and South Adams next Tuesday evening at SA!