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The sports calendar says otherwise.
The five-week period that began Saturday may be the busiest, most exciting time of the year for high school sports in Indiana. It’s tournament time.
While boys basketball is the sport that draws the most attention, Saturday’s wrestling sectionals across the state started a month of nearly non-stop tournament action.
For example, let’s consider what will happen at Jay County High School this weekend.
The action will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday when the whistle blows to start the first match of the regional wrestling tournament.
And these early matches are perhaps the most meaningful of the day. A first-round win means a top-four finish and a guaranteed trip to the semi-state tournament. A loss in the opener, and the season is over.
It doesn’t get any more sudden-death than that.
Just a half-hour after the wrestling matches begin, and just a few feet away, divers will start launching themselves off the board in the JCHS pool. It will be the start of the girls swimming sectional.
The action will continue throughout the day, with wrestlers continuing to compete for regional championships and swimmers joining the divers at 1 p.m. with sectional titles and trips to the state finals on the line. And one of the busiest sports days of the year will finish off with the Patriot boys basketball team playing one of its 11 February games on the road at Yorktown.
But it doesn’t stop there.
The next weekend continues the tournament action with the Jay County girls basketball team playing the host and defending sectional champion Archers in the sectional tournament on Valentine’s Day. And a day later the stakes get even higher as wrestlers travel to the semi-state tournament at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne while girls swimmers head to the state finals at IU Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis.
Wrestling state finals follow on Feb. 22 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in the state capital on the same day JCHS will host the boys swimming sectional tournament. Boys swimming state finals are back at IUPUI on the first Saturday in March, and the week that follows brings the boys basketball and gymnastics sectional tournaments.
So take advantage of the many opportunities, especially those that will be right in your back yard at JCHS.
Come out to the high school this weekend and watch Eric Hemmelgarn and his Patriot wrestling teammates battle for regional titles. Visit the pool to see one of the strongest Patriot girls swim teams in school history fight for Jay County’s first sectional title.
And, if possible, hit the road for a semi-state or state event. There is nothing like watching a local athlete, someone we see every day, compete at the highest level.
It’s something special.[[In-content Ad]]
The sports calendar says otherwise.
The five-week period that began Saturday may be the busiest, most exciting time of the year for high school sports in Indiana. It’s tournament time.
While boys basketball is the sport that draws the most attention, Saturday’s wrestling sectionals across the state started a month of nearly non-stop tournament action.
For example, let’s consider what will happen at Jay County High School this weekend.
The action will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday when the whistle blows to start the first match of the regional wrestling tournament.
And these early matches are perhaps the most meaningful of the day. A first-round win means a top-four finish and a guaranteed trip to the semi-state tournament. A loss in the opener, and the season is over.
It doesn’t get any more sudden-death than that.
Just a half-hour after the wrestling matches begin, and just a few feet away, divers will start launching themselves off the board in the JCHS pool. It will be the start of the girls swimming sectional.
The action will continue throughout the day, with wrestlers continuing to compete for regional championships and swimmers joining the divers at 1 p.m. with sectional titles and trips to the state finals on the line. And one of the busiest sports days of the year will finish off with the Patriot boys basketball team playing one of its 11 February games on the road at Yorktown.
But it doesn’t stop there.
The next weekend continues the tournament action with the Jay County girls basketball team playing the host and defending sectional champion Archers in the sectional tournament on Valentine’s Day. And a day later the stakes get even higher as wrestlers travel to the semi-state tournament at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne while girls swimmers head to the state finals at IU Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis.
Wrestling state finals follow on Feb. 22 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in the state capital on the same day JCHS will host the boys swimming sectional tournament. Boys swimming state finals are back at IUPUI on the first Saturday in March, and the week that follows brings the boys basketball and gymnastics sectional tournaments.
So take advantage of the many opportunities, especially those that will be right in your back yard at JCHS.
Come out to the high school this weekend and watch Eric Hemmelgarn and his Patriot wrestling teammates battle for regional titles. Visit the pool to see one of the strongest Patriot girls swim teams in school history fight for Jay County’s first sectional title.
And, if possible, hit the road for a semi-state or state event. There is nothing like watching a local athlete, someone we see every day, compete at the highest level.
It’s something special.[[In-content Ad]]
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