Final "W" of Regular Season!

Garrett 57 Columbia City 18


285- Travis Carunchia(Gar) pin Kyle Weigold 5:30
103- Hayden Lee(Gar) pin Michael Wright 1:54
112- Bryce Forester(CC) pin Zach Helton 3:34
119- August Novy(Gar) pin Trey Hinen 5:22
125- Austun McCray(Gar) pin Alan Trabert 3:51
130- Chris Hunkler(Gar) maj dec Bryce Bauer 11-3
135- Brayden Moreau(Gar) tech fall Tyler Olsen 17-2
140- Justin Trigg(CC) pin Kyle Lanning :53
145- Eric Shepherd(CC) dec Gabe Gunion 10-5
152- Brett Schendel(Gar) pin Landon Hodges 3:07
160- Michael Moore(Gar) FF
171- Che Fuentes(Gar) pin Zach Perry 3:04
189- Austin Gibson(Gar) pin Addison Krider :25
215- Nathan Strange(CC) dec Erich McCrumb 14-11


The Grapplers soundly defeated Columbia City tonight in the final regular season match of the year. The team now can focus on the ACAC tournament this weekend at Woodlan High School.  The wrestling begins at 9am and continues until early afternoon. The Finals will begin at approximately 2:15pm. Good Luck Railroaders!

Third Times a Charm -- Cancellations!

Both the Boys and Girls C-Team games at Fremont scheduled for tonight have been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. We will look for a date sometime in January -- Third Times a Charm!

The VARSITY Wrestlers will practice this afternoon from 1pm-3pm.

The VARSITY Girls Basketball Team will practice this afternoon from 3pm-5pm.

The Boys Basketball teams were not scheduled to practice today.

All other Athletic Practices have been cancelled for today.

HAVE A GREAT CHRISTMAS BREAK. Enjoy the time you have with your families and try to have some fun!

Merry Christmas and remember the Reason for the Season!

Good and Not so Good!

Do you want to hear the Good news first or the Bad News?

I never know how to answer this question. So I will start with the Bad News first.

The Varsity Boys Basketball team were defeated tonight by Fremont at the Bateman Gymnasium. The lone bright spot of the night was Senior Eric Custer dominated inside. Eric Scored 26 points but the Railroaders were soundly defeated 84-64. Although the offense was not as good as we're used to, it was the defense that really struggled tonight.  You have to give Fremont credit. They out hustled us on both ends of the court.  The Railroaders started out with a 12-4 lead and then never recovered  the rest of the game. The other bright spot of the night was the JV victory on a last second 3 point shot by Kylan LaMotte.

The Good News is the wrestlers bounced back after the tough defeat to South Adams last week by beating Snider in a make up game from November. Garrett won by a score of 40-34. The Railroaders won 8 of 14 matches. Brayden Moreau and Hayden Lee remained undefeated for the season. The match came down to the final match with Carunchia pinning Snider for the victory.

The individual results are listed below:

JV
135- Chris Hunkler (Gar) def Carsten Clark 7-3
171- Che Fuentes(Gar) pin Adam Whisler :36
Garrett (40) vs. Snider (32)Varsity
103- Hayden Lee (Gar) tech fall Drew Gordon 18-3
112- Enrique Early (Sni) pin Zach helton 3:22
119- Jose Casa (Sni) maj dec Dustin Alwine 10-4
125- Mason Meling (Sni) maj dec August Novy 11-3
130- Austun McCray (Gar) pin Tyler Mckee 3:03
135- Brayden Moreau (Gar) maj dec Jared Wilson 11-1
140- Logan Lee (Gar) maj dec David Frygang 13-1
145- Kyle Lanning (Gar) pin Aaron Bender :54
152- K.C. Corey (Sni) pin Gabe Gunion :59
160- James Storks (Sni) pin Nathan Duesler 1:14
171- Brett Schendel (Gar) def Braine Morgan 4-3
189- Logan Dan (Sni) pin Lucas Bobay 1:38
215- Austin Gibson def Forfeit
285- Travis Carunchia pin Jarimiah Kelsaw 1:45

The other good news of the day is our Girls Basketball team moved up to 2nd in the State 2A rankings behind Bishop Luers and they were chosen as the Wane TV 15 team of the week. 

Wane TV Team of the Week -- Video

 Great work Lady Railroaders! Keep the Big Train Rolling!

ACAC Wrestling

Well, we didn't get the results we wanted at South Adams tonight. Our wrestlers lost to a tough Starfire team in the Stardome tonight.  The team is young and we had some matches that did not go the way they should have. I haven't gotten the results sent to me. But, I can remember Travis Carunchia, Hayden Lee, Brayden Moreau, Brett Schendel, Austin Gibson, and Austin McCray all won. If I'm leaving someone off, my memory is not that good.

Coach Fielden has some things to work on and I am sure they will work hard. The next ACAC match is next Thursday Night at Leo High School. Good Luck Wrestlers!

This Week in sports!

The girls Varsity Basketball team travels to Prairie Heights tomorrow night to try to make it 7-0 for the season. The JV will tip-off at 6pm followed by the Varsity.

The Wrestlers travel to South Adams on Thursday to take on the very tough Starfire team. We have had a few injuries and illnesses to start the season but the Railroaders will be ready to give it everything they have to defeat the South Adams team in Berne.  Wrestling will begin at  6:30pm on Thursday.

On Friday Night the Boys Basketball team travels to Woodburn to take on the Woodlan Warriors and try to reverse the results of the Saturday game. We just need to remember the game is a full 32 minutes long and finish.  The JV game will start at 6pm.

On Saturday Night the Girls Basketball team will battle the Leo Lady Lions in the Paul Bateman Gymnasium.  Both teams are always strong in the ACAC and could be battling for a conference title.  In order to PUMP UP the fans and team on Saturday we are having a BLACK-OUT! All the Railroader Fans need to wear black to the game and support another girls victory.

Keep the big train rolling!

Boys BBall 1-1, Wrestlers 2-3

The Boys Basketball team had a rough night tonight up at Prairie Heights. They struggled most of the night with turnovers but were able to stay close and were tied at halftime. The 3rd quarter was back and forth but the 4th quarter was a completely different story. The final score was 74-55. Garrett was again led by Drake Landis.  Drake got in foul trouble in the first half and again in the second half. We needed him to be on the floor. Brandon Porter was the second leading scorer.  The entire team struggled with turnovers and fouls. Coach Bodey knew this would be a much tougher opponent than game #1. He was right. We lost our composure in the middle of the  4th quarter and then let that adversity get the best of us.  I think our fans lost their composure as well.  The game exposed some physical and mental weaknesses of this young team and I am sure Coach Bodey and his staff will get to work to improve in those areas.  You win as a team and lose as a team. Since Athletics are Educational Experiences, I hope we ALL learn from this game. As Kim Lobsiger used to say, "We are one!" and as another famous American said "United We Stand, Divided we Fall". I think this game proves those two sayings are true! Next Up the boys will travel to Woodlan High School to take on the Warriors at Woodburn.

The Basketball team was not the only team competing today. Our Wrestlers traveled to Peru High School to compete with some very good State Wrestling Powerhouses. We went 2-3 with this young team and were defeated by Yorktown, Bellmont, and Huntington North. We defeated Lakeland and LaPorte. Undefeated wrestlers for the day were Hayden Lee and Brayden Moreau. Just like the Boys Basketball team, every one of these early season contests will tell important things about our team. I am sure Coach Fielden learned something about each of his wrestlers and knows what we need to work on.  This team travels to South Adams on Thursday to take on another very tough conference opponent.

6-0 and more!

I know it's a bit repetitive but another dominating performance by the Lady Railroaders defeating the Lady Warriors of Woodlan High School 75-46. Heather House had 23 points, Jordyn Knott had 20 points and Megan Getts had 10 points.  It could have been a lot more but Coach Feagler did not press at all in the 2nd half and the JV girls played much of the 4th quarter.  Heather and Jordyn were unstoppable and lso dominated the Boards. Garrett had just too much for Woodlan who has a girls that's 6'1" and going to play division 1 Basketball at Toledo. Between Jordyn and Megan Getts, she couldn't guard both of them. Jordyn was all over every board and did an amazing job putting the ball through the hoop. They had absolutely no one with Heathers speed and they just couldn't defend her at all.

Next up for the Girls, on the road to Prairie Heights this Tuesday Night. The Boys travel to Brushy Prairie tomorrow night also to take on the Prairie Heights Panthers. They will try to make it 2-0.

The wrestling team travels to Peru for the first Varsity contests of the new season and the competition is really tough.

Good Luck to all the Railroader Winter Athletic Teams!

Wrestling 2010

The wrestling team has been practicing since last week and the last group of wrestlers are making the transition from Football to wrestling this week. Because of the successful and November end to the Football season, we have moved the Snider Wrestling Match to Tuesday, December 7th. The match is still at Snider and will begin at the same scheduled time , 6:30pm.

Please make this change on your calendars. Good Luck Coach Fielden and the wrestlers in the upcoming season.