This weekend was the Georgetown Throwdown, and it went well, for the experienced kids anyway. Part of it was done on Friday, for the JV Boys and Girls teams, then Saturday was for the boys' varsity team. I was kind of glad we only have Mijo to worry about and not have to be there both days.
We had to go to bed early on Friday night, with Mijo having to be at school by 6:00am, we tried to get as much sleep as possible. I have been feeling a bit sick, so Wife got up in the morning to drop him off. I was then woken by Wife around 7:30am to get up and get ready to drive up there. We got going right before 9:00am, which it was supposed to be the start time, but Mijo called within that time frame, and they had already dealt with the first school, he did not have a wrestler to challenge at heavyweights, so he was given a forfeit win. This is common and people can get lucky and go meets like this where they don't even fight. Being that it was done Meet style (the team sits all 15 wrestlers, one for each weight category and they all fight for team points) and not bracket style, Mijo and his buddy shared the job of covering for heavyweight (the biggest guy who will weigh between 215 and 285). His buddy, I'll call him Scorpion because he looks like one when he fights, stretched out on the ground, menacing and in control has gotten almost as good as Mijo. Mijo won the first match by forfeit, we got there in time to watch the second, but Scorpion fought in his place, and he won the match, easily enough. The next one was supposed to be for Mijo, the Weiss kid, but Scorpion saw that he was new and inexperienced, so he wanted him. He took him out in less than a minute. Mijo then fought a kid from Eastview, and he took that kid out in less than 50 seconds.
Other than heavyweights, we are dealing with a very new team, so there were not many wins in the other weight classes. His sparring partner who fought 220 last year is still trying to get down to weight, which is now below 215. He is very good and has won the JV category for him the last two meets, but he needs to lose about 8 pounds to get back to Varsity. There is also a 150-pound kid who has also been winning first in JV, he just transferred from Akins, so he will be a good Varsity kid. Then there is the friend who is having trouble with his living conditions, he fights well, but his family is across town, and finds it hard to focus on the team, but fights like hell when he shows up.
Of all the new kids, there is a freshman, Mijo's best friend's little brother who has that right dog in him, you can tell he is going to get a lot better and dominate, once he learns some moves. The girls also had about 5-6 of them place in the top three, including Mijo's GF, who came in third in her weight class. As a team, the girls placed 5th, out of 11-12 schools, which is starting to look pretty impressive, the top is just dominated by the richer hill country schools.
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