{"id":10618,"date":"2023-12-01T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2023-12-03T18:53:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T02:53:06","slug":"wrestling-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/wrestling-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon Wrestlers Gear Up for New Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/nicklutz2023-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10865\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/nicklutz2023-1024x664.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/nicklutz2023-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/nicklutz2023-768x498.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/nicklutz2023-570x369.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/nicklutz2023.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Elmira High School wrestling team celebrates after winning last season&#8217;s Nick Lutz Tournament. (Photo by Derek French)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Elmira High School wrestlers hit the mats again, the team is team is led by five returning seniors, including state champion Brett Highburger and state tournament placer Colton Barklow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think our goal for this year is to hold our own in our league and keep working hard and improving as a team,&#8221; Highburger said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After losing five seniors last year, the Falcons are entering a rebuilding year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head coach Justin Peeler said that although the team lost &#8220;a handful of solid senior wrestlers,&#8221; there are several solid wrestlers who are returning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will have a bunch of new wrestlers this year, and those older wrestlers will need to help lead the younger ones,&#8221; Peeler told Falcon News. &#8220;I think we still have some good talent and should do just fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Falcons are working to find a new team rhythm this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One goal is to continue to push the older kids. They had a lot of success last year, and we want that to continue,&#8221; Peeler said. &#8220;For the younger kids, I want them to get as much experience as possible and try to get them to the state tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Falcons hosted an intra-squad meet Wednesday. The team will travel to Cascade on Saturday for the Perry Burlison Wrestling Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team has five returning seniors, including state champion Brett Highburger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":10865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10618"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}