{"id":6565,"date":"2022-12-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=6565"},"modified":"2022-12-06T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:42:51","slug":"wrestling-team-gears-up-for-first-season-in-3a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/wrestling-team-gears-up-for-first-season-in-3a\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling Team Gears Up for First Season in 3A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wrestling-3-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6569\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wrestling-3-1024x535.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wrestling-3-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wrestling-3-768x401.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wrestling-3-1536x803.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wrestling-3-2048x1070.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wrestling-3-570x298.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gold team&#8217;s Summer McKeen takes on Katarina Jentzsch from the purple team in last week&#8217;s mock meet. (Photo by Kelsey Hemple \/ Falcon News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a competitive season last year in the 4A division, Elmira High School&#8217;s wrestling team is ready to dominate in 3A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practices started a week before the official season, and after the mock meet the team had on Tuesday, wrestlers and coaches alike are feeling confident in the team&#8217;s capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked about his confidence in the season based on practices, head coach Justin Peeler said, \u201cYeah, I mean, the cool part is we went from 17 total wrestlers to 27, so we got a lot of experienced kids practicing with new ones, and they\u2019re all doing great. I think it\u2019ll be a good season.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer McKeen, a junior wrestler, gave her input on the team this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel like we\u2019re gonna be good. We have a lot of new people who are doing well so far,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I feel like we\u2019ll do well this season.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the mock meet, the wrestling team split into two teams, purple vs. gold. Purple took the win with 39 to 36 points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every match was competitive and each wrestler grappled with ferocity and kept fighting till time ran out, hopefully setting a precedent for the rest of the season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With their first official meet of the season out of the way, the wrestlers are prepping for a battle, and after a season like last year where nine wrestlers went to state, they can bet on getting one from attending schools.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the big difference is, being down at 3A, the competition will be different, and if we get nine to state again that would be great. I want to get some girls to state this season too,&#8221; Peeler said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first event of the season was the Perry Burlison Tournament at Cascade High School last Saturday. Their next meet will be at North Bend on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first event the program has at home will be on Jan. 6 at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons are ready to be competitive in the new division<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":6569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6719,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565\/revisions\/6719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}