Team State Sorrows

We are home early tonight and that can only mean one thing...one bad thing...Mishawaka lost at Team State today. Round one against Cathedral. We knew things were gonna be tough when we were down by 20 points after the first 4 or so matches. What hurt even more was the fact that our boys started getting on a roll way too late. Ben said it perfectly...our boys wrestled to "not lose" while Cathedral wrestled "to win." In our opinion, though, some of the calls the refs made were terrible. A pin should have been called while one shouldn't have been called. Stalling calls were not made when we thought they should have been. Of course, this is only opinion, and one sided at that, but Trenton's match was a perfect example of how the refs were making calls. To begin the match against you enter the circle, shake hands with your opponent and begin the match at the whistle. Apparently, once you enter the circle, you cannot leave it. Trenton did just this...to give his Coach Fabian a hand slap. The refs did not make anything of it, in fact, they did see it. The Cathedral Coach proceeded to go up to the refs to complain, thus giving Corsaro (of Cathedral) 1 point off the bat (penalty). Ridiculous. Trenton showed what he had, even though he sometimes has trouble with lanky kids like Corsaro, and he pulled out the win 6-5 (with a winning takedown in the last 15 seconds). Wow. This reminded us of our boy last year...we called him the "cardiac kid" with the many matches he would win at the last second. After Harper's win, Trenton's win and Steven's win, we thought the meet would turn. Unfortunately, it didn't. In fact, once Cathedral figured out that there was no way we could catch them (last 2 matches), they sent out JV kids and basically, they layed down on their backs. Didn't even give our kids a match. Horrible. It was devastating. A real heart breaker for our kids. Lots of tears were shed, especially by the seniors who put their whole hearts into this meet today. Trenton came home and hugged both Ben and me and said, "Mom, Dad, I just want you to know that I don't say it enough, but thank you. Thank you for bringing me food, thank you for coming to watch, thank you for pushing me to be better, thank you for supporting my wrestling career all this time." It brought me to tears, yet again. I can't believe his high school wrestling is over. I told Trenton that I really want him to go to school close to home so we can continue to watch his matches as much as we can. I will miss his high school days...his matches. Trenton is such an emotional wrestler and isn't afraid to show it. I love that about him. He knows how to get a crowd fired up. Anyways, heart breaker loss for the team...30-31, but still VERY proud to be CAVEMEN!