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Lovelace Third at State

Nate wrestled like a man on a mission to plce third at State. He did it the hard way coming back from a first round loss in which poor officaiting played a critical part. He Had a great Tournament to cap of a great year. Mike Geisert the Bulls only other State Quilifer managed to win a match in the toughest weight class at the Tournament. Both of these guys came to the sort late and put in a lot of hours of extra time to get were they did.

Geisert and Lovelace on to State

Mike Geisert and Nathon Lovelace advanced to the State tournement after placing fourth and second at last weekends regionals. Other bull who were close were David Maynor who lost 1 to 0 and Dave Mendoza who lost by 2 points. Every Bull who went won at least one match. The highlight for the underclassmen came when David Mason upset the sixth ranked 3 pounder in the state in the first round.

Bulls third in districts

The bulls took 11 wrestlers into the simi and all 11 will go to regionals but only three went on to the finals. We had a very bad simi finial round we may have to look at how we prepare for the end of year run and make some changes next year. However we are in the hardest district in the region so many of our kids who finished third or fourth have a good chance to go to state.

Bull take third in conference play off

Drawing Brandon in the first round resulted in the bull meeting Armwood for third. though all know who the seconded best team in the county is.

Nice article in the Timeson The Bulls about time don't you think.

Also a district preview

Andy Medders off Gulf and half team with him.

Bulls fall short at Ipp.

The Bulls did not do as well as they hoped at this weekends Ipp. Tournamnt and placed fourth. However many ind. did well and it was a good tune-up going into the end of the season. 14-1 The Bulls completed thier duel meat season 14 and 1 the best season is school history. on to State.

Wings after victory over Chamberlain

After an easy victory over a rebuilding Chamberlain team 56-15. The Bulls took a much needed break and enjoyed their annual wing feast at Beef O'Bradys. Tradition states that the coaching staff buys 100 wings for each shut out. This years teams ties last years for the recored with 300 wings.

Joining this years graplers were 2 members of the 97 squad . Shawn Oakman and Jeff Lorch both talking about how much harder things were when they were on the team. I hate to hear how hard it was when these old timers tell it to their grand kids.

The Senior table claimed domination in wings consumed though Jrs.Cruz and Fawk almost keep up my themselves. Freshman David Mason was seen walking away from the table claiming to now be a legit 3 pounder. Good Luck making weight Tuesday guys.

Bulls Defeat Gather

The Bulls perserved a hard fought victory against the cowboys last night.

David Mason looked tired in his match against state ranked Blair Branch David was giving up 11 pounds and it showed.He did managed a rev and takedown before being cought in the third. Mike Geisert look very sharp on his feet and scored and easy pin as did Jimmy Duvall, Nathon Lovelace and Scott Fawk. The big guy seems to be getting it together. Eric Scott and Frank Cruz lost battles to very good opp. Cruz lost 6-3 to last years Regional Champ while Eric missed victory by only 1 point.

Tampa TribOn Bulls victory and new football coach.

Gable on weight loss

Coach Dan Gable was on ESPN Friday night leading a group discussion on the death last year of three college wrestlers.After word he took several phone calls on the weight loss issue. Be sure to check out coaches corner to get Coach C's take on this. Bulls Crush King 72-7 Mat Skelly (112) fell from the ranks of the unbeaten in a wild 17 to 9 loss. Joe Harless (160) was the only other Bull who would lose this night as the rest of the team put on a takedown and pining clinic. Highlights included Ron Buffano pining for the win in his first varsity start and Frank Cruz getting the first pin of his carrer.

Bulls Defeat East Bay

The Bulls managed to beat East Bay by 15 points 36-21 despite a fairly lack -luster performance by several starters. David Mason got things started right with a pin for revenge against Spike Stafford who beat him 9-5 at the Mita. Mase survied a first period scare with a great bridge then went on to domanate his larger foe.

Mat Skelly increased his unbeaten string to 8 with a easy pin bringing his pin total to 7

Grisert, Tuberosa and Schoot each lost tough matches to bring the score to 12-9. After an quick take down Jimmy Duval had trouble solving the Hughes puzzel untill late in the third period and run out of time for the pin. Then Jeff Lorch scored an 8-0 shut out to bring the match score to 19-9

A game Travis Cochran managed to make it to the 2nd period against Jake the Snake Leneger. Erich Scott and Joe Harless each scored major Dec. for the bulls with Joe wrestling one of his best matches to date.

In the best match of the evening Dave Maynor and Garis battled head to head for a 1-1 tie then with 10 sec. left in the match Garis Scored a takedown to win it 3-1.Frank Cruz lost for only te 2nd time this season. Nathon Lovelace won by Fall and Scott Fawk looking the best he has all year scored an upset dec. to wrap things up. (see results page for box score)

Edwards transfers to Leto

St. Pete Times story

BULLS WIN MANATEE HURRICANE TEAM TOURNEY

The bull Light weights led the way to victory as the team captured the title in a very competive dule meet tournament. Bloomingdale was undefeated from 103 to 130 in all three of their matches. Mason, Geisert. Tuberosa, Schoot and Duvall got each match started with a bang then the rest of the team did what they had to to earn the wins.

In their first match the team walked through a young Lakeland squad who as always was very physical.The upper middle matches were very close. With Cruz and Maynor pulling off last second wins and Scott and Harless loosing Heartbreakers in OT.

The Second match was not so easy as a very tough East Lake (ranked 4th in state) squad pushed the bulls to the limit. The Bulls won the first 5 matches and jumped off to a 29-0 lead. East Lake then won the next 5 to close the gap to 29-24. Maynor, Cruz and Lovelace then assured the victory with three straight wins for the bulls. Cruz wrestled the best match of his young career beating a very good Beamer 7 to 6.

The stage was set for the Championship match with Mantee. No one could forget last years matchup in which the bulls Jumped of to a 32-0 lead only to see Mantee come back and tie the match sending the Bulls home in third place. All were determined not to let that happen again. Mason and Geisert started it off with Major decs. over tough opponets. Tuberosa added a pin. Schott Beat 5th ranked Garnet for the second time this year leading one to wonder when his ranking will be moved up. Duvall then got revenge for his lose at the Mita and scored a 1 point dec. over nLukans In a big win rookie Cochran pined as did Mendoza. after winning the first 7 matches the lead look good. Then the Canes started to move winning the next three. Shades of last year started to surface. Maynor the only undefeated middle or upper weight quickly put them to rest with a 1 point victory to seal the win. Heavy weight Fawk put the icing on the cake


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