Rating wrestling media
I have to click on these links to get these wrestling stories and man I have to tell you there is some bad sports writing going on as far as wrestling is concerned around Northwest Ohio.
There are a lot of sports writers that don’t know a half nelson from half of a jelly doughnut.
I read one story where they referred to the wrestlers as “players” and referred to wrestling as “playing” The Most Valuable Wrestler award was even mentioned as the Most Valuable Player award. Uggghh.
But give them credit I guess at least they are writing about the sport. I have to admit when I have to write up the University of Findlay Equestrian results I have know idea what the advanced walk/trot/canter is.
So today’s blog isn’t so much about wrestling but about wrestling coverage. There are 25 daily newspapers in the Northwest District and we’ll grade them on wrestling coverage. Today’s grades are for the first 13 newspapers in alphabetical order. I’d like some feedback and you tell me what grade you give the media outlets in your area.
Ashland Times Gazette -- B-plus. Pretty good coverage on the local teams like Ashland and Crestview and the team at Ashland University. I wish they would put their dual meet summaries online.
Bellevue Gazette -- B-plus. Sports Writer Ed Fox knows wrestling and the give pretty good coverage to the Bellevue Redmen.
Bryan Times -- A-minus. They even get the Bryan JV Tournament in. Large coverage area for a small paper and a very good wrestling writer in John Fryman.
Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum -- D-plus. An award-winning sports staff at Bucyrus but little focus given to wrestling. I always read about the Seneca East and Mohawk boys and girls basketball teams…but never a word about their wrestling programs which are more competitive than their basketball teams.
Celina Daily Standard -- B-minus. Celina and Mercer County is basketball country although the Standard seems to do a good job.
Defiance Crescent News -- A-plus. They have the space other papers don’t seem to have and one of the more knowledgeable writers in Chuck Martinez. Simply put they get the job done.
Delphos Herald -- C. They give it the old college try and will always include the information sent into them. Although I don’t care for their style. It’s a personal choice.
Findlay Courier -- No rating. Hey I can’t possibly be objective on our own coverage. Could I do more…hell yeah. This is what this blog is all about.
Fostoria Review Times -- C. Great for girls basketball, wrestling probably a little below average overall.
Fremont News Messenger -- B. They cover the duals with stringers and do a pretty good job with that. Although I’d love to see their agate packages online for basketball boxes and wrestling dual meet summaries.
Galion Inquirer -- B-minus. I haven’t seen the print version of the newspaper in a few months but they seem to be getting some info online about the Galion Tigers. The wrestling team is about the only things to write about because the basketball stinks
Kenton Times -- C. Average. Kenton and Riverdale are their only prep wrestling teams and they do a decent job overall.
Lima News -- D. Not much info on the weekends and so far the dual meet summaries they have run haven’t even told you which school the kid was from that won. Not even any capsules previewing area teams unless I missed it. Plus their online writing leaves a lot to be desired.
Rest of the grades come tomorrow.
NEWSWORTHY:
Findlay Courier’s Wednesday Wrestling Roundup
Defiance gets first dual win
Defiance Crescent News Tuesday Wrestling Roundup
Loudonville knocks off Crestview 46-27
Lexington Wrestlers move to 4-0
Huron readies for home duals
Norwalk Invite set for Saturday
Huron wrestlers fall to Norwalk
New weight loss program story from the Blade
Dual Results
Toledo Whitmer 46, Toledo Waite 29
103 — Dorn (Wh) pinned Bauer 5:03
112 — Enright (Wa) wn by forfeit
119 — Guerra (Wa) dec. Bowman 3-1
125 — Fuller (Wa) pinned Dombrowski 3:54
130 — Carmona (Wa) tech. fall Eltatawy 18-3
135 — Edwards (Wh) won by forfeit
140 — Lopez (Wa) dec. Zapadka 7-3
145 — Herrick (Wa) pinned Frank 1:26
152 — Roth (Wh) won by forfeit
160 — Escamilla (Wh) won by default
171 — Eltatawy (Wh) pinned Duris :58
189 — Sampson (Wh) maj. dec. Barton 13-2
215 — Ball (Wh) won by forfeit
285 — Ernst (Wh) pinned Rupert 1:32
Bedford, Mich. 42, Toledo St. Francis 21
103 — Fox (B) won by forfeit
112 — Cook (SF) dec. Hensley 11-6
119 — Mayer (B) pinned Cook 1:41
125 — Fisher (B) tech. fall Marzec 16-1
130 — Brown (SF) dec. Lewis 6-3
135 — Clark (B) pinned Janke 3:15
140 — Arnold (B) pinned Dietsch 3:00
145 — Alexander (B) maj. dec. Laney 10-0
152 — Ortman (B) pinned Hanus 1:28
160 — Ramirez (SF) dec. Kohlhofer 11-9
171 — Babuder (SF) dec. Baker 6-3
189 — Cardone (SF) pinned Fye 4:53
215 — Fedynich (SF) dec. Cole 8-1
285 — Pavlika (B) dec. Krontz 2-1
Norwalk 41, Huron 23
103 — Double forfeit
112 — Arnold (N) tech. fall Taylor 15-0
119 — Hurst (N) pinned Nagy :20
125 — Double forfeit
130 — Montana (N) pinned Sibert 2:33
135 — McAllister (H) tech. fall Ratliff 18-2
140 — Basting (H) dec. Ringle 10-4
145 — Collinsworth (H) dec. Bartlett 11-4
152 — Howard (H) pinned Cooper :33
160 — Johnson (N) pinned Hillman :38
171 — Cook (N) pinned Blodgett 3:00
189 — Torrence (N) won by forfeit
215 — Lund (N) pinned Adkins 2:42
285 — Romick (H) pinned Slate :11
Scores Only
Ashland Crestview 48, Dalton 24
Loudonville 46, Ashland Crestview 27
New London 37, Norwalk St. Paul 36
Seneca East 41, New London 28
North Union 54, Clear Fork 24
Lexington 77, Jeromesville Hillsdale 3
Lexington 47, West Salem Northwestern 19
There are a lot of sports writers that don’t know a half nelson from half of a jelly doughnut.
I read one story where they referred to the wrestlers as “players” and referred to wrestling as “playing” The Most Valuable Wrestler award was even mentioned as the Most Valuable Player award. Uggghh.
But give them credit I guess at least they are writing about the sport. I have to admit when I have to write up the University of Findlay Equestrian results I have know idea what the advanced walk/trot/canter is.
So today’s blog isn’t so much about wrestling but about wrestling coverage. There are 25 daily newspapers in the Northwest District and we’ll grade them on wrestling coverage. Today’s grades are for the first 13 newspapers in alphabetical order. I’d like some feedback and you tell me what grade you give the media outlets in your area.
Ashland Times Gazette -- B-plus. Pretty good coverage on the local teams like Ashland and Crestview and the team at Ashland University. I wish they would put their dual meet summaries online.
Bellevue Gazette -- B-plus. Sports Writer Ed Fox knows wrestling and the give pretty good coverage to the Bellevue Redmen.
Bryan Times -- A-minus. They even get the Bryan JV Tournament in. Large coverage area for a small paper and a very good wrestling writer in John Fryman.
Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum -- D-plus. An award-winning sports staff at Bucyrus but little focus given to wrestling. I always read about the Seneca East and Mohawk boys and girls basketball teams…but never a word about their wrestling programs which are more competitive than their basketball teams.
Celina Daily Standard -- B-minus. Celina and Mercer County is basketball country although the Standard seems to do a good job.
Defiance Crescent News -- A-plus. They have the space other papers don’t seem to have and one of the more knowledgeable writers in Chuck Martinez. Simply put they get the job done.
Delphos Herald -- C. They give it the old college try and will always include the information sent into them. Although I don’t care for their style. It’s a personal choice.
Findlay Courier -- No rating. Hey I can’t possibly be objective on our own coverage. Could I do more…hell yeah. This is what this blog is all about.
Fostoria Review Times -- C. Great for girls basketball, wrestling probably a little below average overall.
Fremont News Messenger -- B. They cover the duals with stringers and do a pretty good job with that. Although I’d love to see their agate packages online for basketball boxes and wrestling dual meet summaries.
Galion Inquirer -- B-minus. I haven’t seen the print version of the newspaper in a few months but they seem to be getting some info online about the Galion Tigers. The wrestling team is about the only things to write about because the basketball stinks
Kenton Times -- C. Average. Kenton and Riverdale are their only prep wrestling teams and they do a decent job overall.
Lima News -- D. Not much info on the weekends and so far the dual meet summaries they have run haven’t even told you which school the kid was from that won. Not even any capsules previewing area teams unless I missed it. Plus their online writing leaves a lot to be desired.
Rest of the grades come tomorrow.
NEWSWORTHY:
Findlay Courier’s Wednesday Wrestling Roundup
Defiance gets first dual win
Defiance Crescent News Tuesday Wrestling Roundup
Loudonville knocks off Crestview 46-27
Lexington Wrestlers move to 4-0
Huron readies for home duals
Norwalk Invite set for Saturday
Huron wrestlers fall to Norwalk
New weight loss program story from the Blade
Dual Results
Toledo Whitmer 46, Toledo Waite 29
103 — Dorn (Wh) pinned Bauer 5:03
112 — Enright (Wa) wn by forfeit
119 — Guerra (Wa) dec. Bowman 3-1
125 — Fuller (Wa) pinned Dombrowski 3:54
130 — Carmona (Wa) tech. fall Eltatawy 18-3
135 — Edwards (Wh) won by forfeit
140 — Lopez (Wa) dec. Zapadka 7-3
145 — Herrick (Wa) pinned Frank 1:26
152 — Roth (Wh) won by forfeit
160 — Escamilla (Wh) won by default
171 — Eltatawy (Wh) pinned Duris :58
189 — Sampson (Wh) maj. dec. Barton 13-2
215 — Ball (Wh) won by forfeit
285 — Ernst (Wh) pinned Rupert 1:32
Bedford, Mich. 42, Toledo St. Francis 21
103 — Fox (B) won by forfeit
112 — Cook (SF) dec. Hensley 11-6
119 — Mayer (B) pinned Cook 1:41
125 — Fisher (B) tech. fall Marzec 16-1
130 — Brown (SF) dec. Lewis 6-3
135 — Clark (B) pinned Janke 3:15
140 — Arnold (B) pinned Dietsch 3:00
145 — Alexander (B) maj. dec. Laney 10-0
152 — Ortman (B) pinned Hanus 1:28
160 — Ramirez (SF) dec. Kohlhofer 11-9
171 — Babuder (SF) dec. Baker 6-3
189 — Cardone (SF) pinned Fye 4:53
215 — Fedynich (SF) dec. Cole 8-1
285 — Pavlika (B) dec. Krontz 2-1
Norwalk 41, Huron 23
103 — Double forfeit
112 — Arnold (N) tech. fall Taylor 15-0
119 — Hurst (N) pinned Nagy :20
125 — Double forfeit
130 — Montana (N) pinned Sibert 2:33
135 — McAllister (H) tech. fall Ratliff 18-2
140 — Basting (H) dec. Ringle 10-4
145 — Collinsworth (H) dec. Bartlett 11-4
152 — Howard (H) pinned Cooper :33
160 — Johnson (N) pinned Hillman :38
171 — Cook (N) pinned Blodgett 3:00
189 — Torrence (N) won by forfeit
215 — Lund (N) pinned Adkins 2:42
285 — Romick (H) pinned Slate :11
Scores Only
Ashland Crestview 48, Dalton 24
Loudonville 46, Ashland Crestview 27
New London 37, Norwalk St. Paul 36
Seneca East 41, New London 28
North Union 54, Clear Fork 24
Lexington 77, Jeromesville Hillsdale 3
Lexington 47, West Salem Northwestern 19
posted by --J-- at 9:32 AM
1 Comments:
The Napoleon Northwest Signal is a big joke. The only wrestling coverage that they have usually is submitted by the Napoleon coach or John Fryman of the Bryan Times. They have no idea what a wrestling match is all about. It is too bad. I truly believe that the Defiance Cresent News, Bryan Times, Findlay Courier and the Sandusky Register do the best job of covering High School Wrestling.
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