

The new century brought new challenges, namely launching a website. Lo and behold that happened many, many times." Schwartz said. and 51: 13."It was a chance to go and develop and have the chance to work for ESPN, because I knew NDSU had a good women's basketball program.and 39: Individual Regional Results Februar.and 7: Sectional Results February 1, 2003.and 3: 2002-03 Team Wrestling State Champi.Griffith, ranked third in the final state coaches’ poll and coached by Travis Walls, closed out its runner-up season at 39- 1 beating Mishawaka and Lawrence North on the way to the championship match. Top-ranked Evansville Mater Dei finished out the season with a record of 23-1, their only loss at the hands of Graham High School in St. Wrestlers for Griffith who had picked up individual crowns earlier and were triumphant Saturday included Angel Escobedo, who rolled past Craig Macke 20-8 at 125, Andrae Hernandez, a winner at 130 over Matt Coughlin, 5-2, and Alex Tsirtsis, with a 26-11 victory over Aaron Scott at 135. Other individual titleholders for Mater Dei who were victorious Saturday included, Dustin Nosko, winner by fall at 0:32 over Andy Raduski at 160, Sam Wildeman at 171, who won by fall at 1:15 over Derek Wartman and Blake Maurer, a 6-1 winner over David Martin III at 189. In the championship round, Craig Weinzapfel, who had won an individual state crown at 145 a week earlier, won by fall over Danny Lewis at 1:17. Griffith responded with four consecutive wins of their own in the 119, 125, 130 and 135-pound brackets to cut the lead to 36-20, but Mater Dei then landed back-to-back wins by fall to take the insurmountable lead. Starting out the competition at the 160 pound level determined by blind draw, they grabbed wins in the first five matches, including four pins, to jump out in front 27-0. Mater Dei got a leg up on the tourney title early. 1 all season long, the Wildcats picked up wins over Perry Meridian (54-9) in the quarterfinals, Bellmont (48-11) in the semifinals and Griffith (42-23) in the state championship round. Since the IHSAA began conducting separate team and individual tournaments in 1995-96, Mater Dei has finished up in the winners’ circle each year under head coach Mike Goebel. Team State Finals Summary Mater Dei Takes Down Griffith For Ninth Consecutive State Championship It was another day…and another state championship for Evansville Mater Dei in the 8 th Annual IHSAA Team Wrestling Tournament on Main front of a near capacity crowd at Center Grove High School in Greenwood. The tournament drew 307 schools and 5,951 participants at the sectional level. Farm Bureau Insurance, the IHSAA corporate sponsor, presented a $1,000.00 scholarship to Bellmont High School in the name of John Sheets.


Brown Mental Attitude Award by the IHSAA’s Executive Committee. John Sheets of Bellmont High School was named winner of the Ward E. In addition to O’Brien and Tsirtsis, other unbeaten state champions were: Gralan Early (36-0) of Fort Wayne North Side at 119 pounds Angel Escobedo (61-0) of Griffith at 125, who won his second state title after topping everyone at 112 in 2002 Griffith teammate Andrae Hernandez (61-0) at 130 Ryan Pribble (48-0) of Turkey Run, the smallest school in the state with a wrestling program, in the 140 pound bracket Evansville Mater Dei’s Craig Weinzapfel (41-0), the 2001 champ at 112, grabbed his second state title winning 145 and Chase Thompson of Frankfort (40-0) at 189. In the process, he earned his 62nd straight victory of the season and 178th consecutive overall, both state records. Tsirtsis rolled to a 15-5 decision over Justin Edwards of Bloomington South in the 135 pound final adding to his crowns at 119 in 2001 and at 130 in 2002. Maurer (43-1) was the champ in 2002 at 145 and at 130 in 2001 as a freshman and made it three in a row this trip in a dramatic 1-1 overtime victory on criteria over Mishawaka’s Alex Dolly (46-1) for the 171 pound championship. At 215, it was all O'Brien (44-0) as he sailed past New Haven’s Zac Dommer (44-2), 11-4, for his third straight championship at that weight. Three individuals collected the third state championship of their careers: senior Jake O’Brien of Franklin Central at 215 and juniors Blake Maurer of Evansville Mater Dei at 171 and Alex Tsirtsis of Griffith at 135. Griffith wrestlers collected three state titles for themselves to account for half of the weight classes between the two teams. 1 as a team all season, finished up with four individual state champs, the most since Lawrence North in the 1992 IHSAA State Finals.
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2002-03 IHSAA Wrestling State Tournament Series Individual State Finals Summary Eight Undefeated Wrestlers Claim Individual IHSAA Titles Of the 24 undefeated wrestlers who entered the 65th Annual IHSAA Individual Wrestling State Finals at Conseco Fieldhouse on February 21-22, 2003, eight emerged victorious, taking home state championship crowns.
