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The Banquet is scheduled for Apr 16, 6 pm at the cafeteria.
Booster will supply fried chicken and another meat, plates, napkins and silverware.   Need to get word out to families and have them bring a dish (salad, bread, vetgetable or dessert).


   I removed a picture from the Web Page today  as soon as I could after finding out the person did not wont there picture on there. If anyone sees their picture or caption under the picture they do not like, please E-Mail me and I will remove it as quickly as possible.  Thank,s

Correction to the Rustburg Match it is not Wednesday but tomorrow, Tuesday January 29, at Rustburg High School at 7:00 PM

Hope to see everyone there

Frank

   Big Orange Tournament this Weekend

Friday Starts at 2:00 Pm and Saturdays Starts at 9:00 AM

  There is going to be 17 Schools at this tournament and 6 or 8 of them are real good schools so this should be a great tournament for the team.

Hope to see a big turnout of fans supporting the team!!!

Delayed Results for Brookville Match

Been wondering just how to write it up so here what I saw.
This was a great wrestling match, Staunton River has got a great team this year but Brookville has a mighty good team too. This night belong to Brookville but I believe if our whole team was healthy it would have been ours.

 Staunton River started off the night winning 3 out of the first 4 matches and having a 16 to 6 lead but Brookville got the next 5 out of 6 taking a 32-22 lead Staunton River got the next 2 matches   to make it 31-32 but Brookville got the last to matches to win 41-31
   There were several really good matches this night like Jeremy Tyree after several questionable calls or should I say not called illegal moves he still won 4-2 and Scott Fike and Cody Bramlett putting their opponents away quickly with a pin. The best match of the night was between Will Epperly and Zeb Stewart, Zeb is ranked 2^nd in the state at 125 but on this night Brookville moved him up to 130 to try to keep Will from getting a win well that did not work not only did Will get the win but he pinned Zeb.

 Our next meeting with Brookville is at Districts and I believe we can beat them but I am sure there will be a tough battle.

 I would like to thank everyone that was at the match, there were more people than at any match I have seen this year and half of them were ours.

Frank

The Franklyn County Match on 1/19/08 has been canceled !!!

Just got this E-Mail about Saturdays match at Franklyn County High School

1st Annual Johnny Price Memorial Duals
@ Franklin County High School
700 Tanyard RD, Rocky Mount, VA. 24151
540-483-5332
January 19, 2008
Weigh-Ins 10:00 AM
Wrestling Begins at 11:00 AM
Teams Registered so far: Franklin County, Albemarle, Staunton River, Stafford, and Jefferson Forest
Format: Six Team Round Robin or Pool Competition with a Championship Round. If we have two more teams we will go to Pool Format. Three Mats
Concessions Available
Traveling Trophy Awarded to Champion Team.
Runner-Up Trophy
All Tournament Team Medals


Spectators: $5.00

The Big Match is Wednesday at Brookeville High School Come and support the team

Also the picture page for Hill City Duals is up

 The District Tournament is going to be at Staunton River this year and the Wrestling Boosters could use some help. Just click on this page to see all the information and what help is needed

Thanks Frank

A Little Information about the B-Team at States

  ALL the guys on our team did a great job!! They all had some hard matches, and hung in there, and several of our guys, just barely missed out ranking in the top 8. And that Coach Mattox, Johnson and Walters did a fantastic job getting them ready for this fierce competition. Also Mr. Tyree's help was much appreciated

 SRHS Middle School team placed 5th in state
  Individual placers were -

 Paul Williams - 4th
Chris Tyree - 4th
Shane Hogan - 5th
Jessie Blankenship - 5th
Jacob Ray - 7th
Aaron Bolling - 3rd

Friday 1/11/08
Staunton River B-Team beat Linkhorne 61 to 34

 There next match is Monday 1/14/07 at Sandusky middle school

The Heritage and Lord Botetourt Match

This was Senior Night for the wrestling Team and all the Senior that wrestled came out and got a win in there first match they were Cody Bramlett, Will Epperly, Montana Large Teddy Childress and Jeremy Falls was injured and did not wrestle
This  was a good one for us we beat Heritage 72-6 and Lord Botetourt 54-18. We had 11 wrestlers win both matches they were Cody Bramlett, Travis Claytor, Austin Wood, Will Epperly, Jeremy Tyree, Austin Carr, Nick Manley, Dustin Kidd, Tony Boughton and Teddy Childress.
   Nice seeing all the parent and students out at Staunton River and hope to see everyone next week at Brookville to see us win!

Quick Message

Staunton River won both matches tonight beating Heritage 72-6 and they beat Lord Botetourt 54-18 I will have more information tomorrow.

Saturdays match at Glenvar has been canceled as of right now there is no match for Saturday but the coach is working on getting us in the LCA Tournament if he does I will post it
Frank

Just got this E-Mail the Match tonight 1/9/08 is at 6:00 PM not 6:30 against Heritage and Lord Botetourt
 Hope to see everyone there

Frank

The Eagles Are Hill City Duals Champs

 There were 12 teams at the Hill City Duals this year and Staunton River was the tournament overall winner. They made there way through the qualifying round by winning both of their matches, Amherst 62-14 and the tournament All/Star pick-up team 70-6 (Robert E Lee High School did not show for the tournament).
  
  In the Second round of the tournament, Staunton River had a close match with William Byrd winning 42-30. Then rolling over Lord Botetourt 57-18 in the Championship Round to end the day with a perfect 4-0 record.
  William Byrd ended up 3rd after loosing to Staunton River
  Brookville after dropping their first match to William Byrd in the qualifying round went on the take 5th place.
   Host team EC Glass ended up in 7th place with a 2-2 record.

  And I would like to thank E.C. Glass for inviating us and putting on a great show it take a lot of hard work to keep things running smoothly like you did. A lot of Wrestlers got to do a lot of Wrestling Saturday.

Staunton River had 6 wrestlers go 4-0 for the day
112 - Travis Claytor
130 - Will Epperly
135 - Jeremy Tyree
145 - Nick Manley
160 - Scott Fike
171 - Dustin Kidd
 The rest of the team did great also stepping up when needed throughout the tournament.
   Hope to have all the results posted within a couple of days

  This Wednesday at 6:30 is Senior night at Staunton River High School with a match against Heritage High School and Lord Botetourt High School then next weekend we are at Glenvar High School for a Tournament then the following Wednesday is the big match against Brookville
  
  Also this weekend was the State tournament for the B-Team in Hampton VA. Here is the results I have
 SRHS Middle School team placed 5th in state
 Individual placers were -
 Paul Williams - 4th
 Chris Tyree - 4th
 Sean Hogan - 5th
 Jessie Blankenship - 5th
 Jacob Ray - 7th
 Aaron Bolling - 3rd

Frank Large

   Just a Reminder
    Varsity Wrestling Match at EC Glass High School ( Hill City Duals) 1/5/08 at 9:00 am There will be a lot of good teams there including Brookville

  B-Team is heading to the Beach for Middle school States, Best of luck to all our wrestlers

  Hope to see you there
Frank

A Word of Thanks

  I would like to say thank you to a few people that have helped the Wrestling Team lately

 1^st   I would like to thank Bob and Linda Gorde of First Aid Supplies Co.

      My wife Nita mention to Mr. Gorde that her son Montana was on the wrestling team and he volunteered to give them some Safety Supplies.
  Well it turned out to be more than just some safety supplies it was a complete First Aid Box along with a bag of extra supplies.
  So if anyone needs some first aid supplies for their home or work give Bob or Linda a call 434-239-6587 and show them you appreciate their support of the Wrestling team

 2^nd  I would like to thank Mr. Williams (Paul Williams on the B-Teams dad )
        Last week at River Rumble there was a 50/50 and Mr. Williams was   the winner and he donated his entire winnings back to the Wrestling Boosters so it turns out the team was the big winner.
   So Thanks again Mr. Williams that was a nice thing to do.

3^rd I don’t know all their names but I would like to thank everyone that helped with the (River Rumble) Tournament last weekend.
    Because of all your help the tournament was a great success and everything ran smoothly  THANKS !!!

      The River Has Rumbled

  The Tournament was set up in two Pools (A and B) Pool-A was Staunton River, E. C. Glass, Radford, James River and Staunton River was the winner of Pool-A beating the other 3 school. Pool-B Schools were Hidden Valley, Patrick Henry, James River, Heritage and Salem where Hidden Valley was the winner of that pool going 3 and 0. The Match for the Championship was set with Staunton River wrestling Hidden Valley and Staunton River won this match easily 57-24. EC Glass got third beating Salem 40-32

  There were several highlights in the tournament; Staunton River had seven wrestlers go undefeated for the day they were Cody Bramlett, Travis Claytor, Will Epperly, Jeremy Tyree, Nick Manley, Tony Boughton, Scott Fike and Dustin Kidd with Nick Manley getting all four of his wins with Pins. I would have to say that the best match of the day was when Will Epperly (Ranked #2 in the AA State this year) took on Radford’s Tanner Stuphin (Last years A State Champion) with Will Epperly winning 5-2. There was also a good match at heavy weight against EC Glass where Teddy Childress who is new to the team this year showed that he has come a long way, he did not win this match but he fought hard into the third period leading by points (Against an opponent that had him by 75 pounds or more) before the weight difference got to him and he got pined.

  There were three awards for outstanding wrestler and Staunton River won two of them. In the light weight class Will Epperly won and in the middle weight class Jeremy Tyree was the winner. In the heavier weight class James Rivers Anthony Garrison took the honor.

    Coach Long got several of his back up Wrestlers involved this week either in the Tournament or in preliminary matches. Micheal Franklin got 2 wins and Austin Adams got 2 wins in the tournament also Tyler Pagan got a pin in :45 seconds in a preliminary match.

   The team has 2 weeks off before their next tournament at EC Glass on 1/5/07. Hope to see everyone there!!!

Check out the Tournament and Results page for all the scores.

Frank

Just got this E-Mail
           THE B-TEAM DID AN AWSOME JOB AGAINST BOTH TEAMS .SRMS WALKED ALL OVER LIBERTY, DEFEATING THEM VERY EASILY. GLENVAR GAVE US A LITTLE MORE TROUBLE, BUT WE STILL OVERPOWERED AND OUTMATCHED THEM IN ALMOST EVERY WEIGHT CLASS. THE TEAM IS CONTINUING TO LEARN MORE AND MORE, AND ARE DEFINITELY A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH!! STATES ARE LOOKING REAL GOOD.

Final Score - SRMS 99 – Liberty 3
                        SRMS 84 – Glenvar 24

  Come See the
   River Rumble

   Saturday December 22, at 9:00 AM is the date for the River Rumble at Staunton River High School. I hope everyone can come out and cheer on the team, and if you possibly can you please help the Wrestling Boosters they will need all the help that they can get

Just got this E-Mail

  The B-Team remains undefeated: Beating Cave Spring in a walk away match!!! Some wrestlers still remain undefeated as individuals also!! We have another match weds. Night 12/19/07 at home vs. Glenvar and Liberty!!
  There will be a parent meeting about states after the match, Thanks!!!

This match is at home so let’s get out there and support the Team!!!
The Cave Spring Score was - SRMS 75 Cave Springs 30
  Our undefeated individuals at last report are Malach Linkous, Chris Tyree, Paul Willams, Sean Hogan, and Jacob Ray

  On 12/17/07  The B-Team has a Wrestling Match at Cave Spring Middle school, they are still undefeated this year I got some information that they beat Jefferson Forest right good last Thursday so let’s get out there and support the team. GO EAGLES!!!

Third Place at Titan Toughman Tournament

The tournament was at Hidden Valley High School and it was a good one.  It ran well (even though the threat of an ice storm hurried the tournament up) and we would like to thank Hidden Valley for inviting us.  There were 16 teams from central and southwest Virginia.    There was Northside, Lord Botetourt, Blacksburg, Staunton River, Covington, Jefferson Forest, E.C. Glass, Radford, Cave Spring, Hidden Valley, Patrick County, Patrick Henry, Virginia High, Salem, Alleghany and Roanoke Catholic.
     We did well taking 3^rd place overall and individually we had a 1^st, Four 2^nd, one 4^th  and one 5^th place finishers; also several other wrestlers finished just out of the top five.
      We did not have our full squad this weekend with 2 of our wrestlers out, one did not make weight the other did not make practice (The Coach can be tough). There were several highlights over the weekend. Having 5 Wrestlers make it to the finals this shows we are a team is one to be reckoned with. Jeremy Tyree put on a show for us winning 4 straight matches, two of them were right tough and came home in 1^st place. We had 4 wrestlers get 2^nd (Cody Bramlett, Will Epperly, Nick Manley and Tony Boughton) everyone of them wrestling tough to the end.

  The courage award goes to Austin Carr this week he has had a bad ankle the past few weeks and hurt it again this weekend but keep wrestling on his last match his opponent knew of his ankle and took advantage of it, twisting it numerous time and was penalized by the referrer for it but Austin fought till the end only losing by 1 point.

  Coach Long got his backup wrestlers involved again this weekend with 3 wrestlers seeing mat time and 2 of the getting wins Montana Large and Brandon Langdon

  Next week we are at home for the River Rumble Hope to see everyone there
Frank

Just a Reminder

 Varsity Wrestling Match at Hidden Valley High School 12/14/07 and 12/15/07 today at 2:00 pm and tomorrow at 9:00 am

See you there
Frank

  E-Mail From the Principal

   Dear Team and Parents:

   The webpage if fantastic.  It is very informative as well as inspirational.  I am excited about your start to the season and expect that great accomplishments are in the future.

   Keep up the hard work and show us all what it means to Be an Eleven.  Good luck to everyone.

M. Kelly

On 12/13/07  The B-Team has a Wrestling Match at Jefferson Forest Middle school, they are undefeated this year so far and I expect it will be that way after this match so let’s get out there and support the team. GO EAGLES!!!

Frank

   Just got this unbelievable E-Mail Staunton River B team Beat Christiansburg Middle school. They have one of the strongest programs in the State.

  Wanted to let you Know the scores of our matches last night. SRMS 49 Christiansburg 42 (that’s right it is not a mistake we beat them), SRMS 59 Radford 12. Let me tell you they (CMS) are good sports, kids or coaches. One of the best matches of the night was William Osborne (75 lbs) he bet Jacob , you know Pauls kid, And let me tell you after we beat them sugar would not melt in Pauls mouth. Well I have to go talk to you later.

                    Jon

Parkland Duals Results 12/8/07
For complete results see Schedule and Results Page

  Let me start by saying thanks to Parkland High School in North Carolina they had 14 Varsity and 12 JV teams wrestling and they did a great job keeping it all running.
  This was a great tournament for our wrestlers going up against the best that North Carolina has and they did well, winning two matches before coming up against the NC 3A State champs everyone wrestled well against them but they are a very strong team and were only scored on a couple of times during the day. Then we had two more tough matches with Butler and the 2A state Champs McMichael
  Going up against competition like this is great for the team, it shows them where they are and how far they need to go to be at the top.
  Each week I try to single out one or two team members who try a little harder or set a good example for the rest of the team I am going to do the same this week but with a different member of the team. This week it is was Coach Long that stood out above everyone at the match,
  To start with Coach Long took every wrestler on the team that had been coming to practice so they could get the experience of a big match and made sure that everyone was wrestling either on the Varsity or JV side.  He was at the mat for every single match for the Varsity team but as soon as it was over he went from team to team finding extra matches for the member of our team that are not starters getting them all the experience he could.
 So Coach Long my hats off to you, Job well done

  Next week we are at the Titan Tough Man Tournament at Hidden Valley High School where we finished 4^th among 16 strong teams and I expect we will do better  this year.
  So let’s fill the stands next week!  I will guarantee you will have a great time and the boys can use your support.

   Just got the results from the B-Team match they had Wednesday against Dunbar and Liberty and it looks like all the hard work and drills that Coach Maddox has been putting the team through is paying off.
  They beat Dunbar 88-18 and beat Liberty 87-9 way to go Team
   There next match is Monday against  Christiansburg and Radford at Christiansburg middle school so everyone lets get out there and support the team

  Well is every one ready for the big tournament this weekend at Parkland High School in Winston Salem NC. This should be a great experience for the team going up against some of the best wrestlers in North Carolina including their state champions from last year.
   For the Directions to Parkland High School click here and for the  Hotel to stay at is Holiday Inn 2520 Peters Creek Pkwy Winston Salem NC 27127 (336-788-1980) it is only one mile from the school
  Click here for directions from Parkland High school to the Hotel

 Good luck to all the wrestlers and see you there.

Frank

  On 12/5/07  The B-Team has a Wrestling Match at Dunbar Middle school in Lynchburg, against Dunbar and Liberty also be there so everyone who can make it please come out and support the Team they have been practicing very

    I Got a E-Mail from the sports writer from the Bedford Bulletin (Mike Forster) that this weeks paper 12/5/07 is going to have the county wrestling preview and Staunton River is the lead story, so make sure and get your paper.

Frank

  We had a good Quad match to start the season and we would like to thank William Byrd for inviting us and putting on a great run match. 
  The Boys wrestled well in all three matches with the Blacksburg and William Byrd matches coming down to one match making the difference just wasn’t in our favor. But I am sure the coach will have a few things to work on with them Monday. 
  If you were there you got to see our guys go 100% and beyond. Like Will Epperly toying with his opponent nearly getting a technical falls on them before going ahead and pinning them and Jeremy Tyree getting a technical fall in a 1 1/2 minutes, now that is scoring points quick. We had 3 wrestlers win all of their matches they were Travis Claytor, Will Epperly and Jeremy Tyree. The wrestler that most impressed me was Andrew Joseph he went two for three with two pins for wins and a hard fought 7-13 lost where he never gave up and hustled for the full six minutes giving 110%
 So Andrew you get voted Wrestler of the Week (But I am the only one voting:)

  To see the complete rundown of all the matches check the (Tournament Schedule and results page)
  The results of the other matches were
(William Byrd 54-Salem 21) (William Byrd 34-Blacksburg 41) (Blacksburg 54-Salem 30)

Next week we are heading to the Parkland Duals in Winston Salem NC to face eight tough North Carolina teams and Their State Champs. Hope to see everyone at the match next week

Frank

ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!!

 9:00 am This Saturday 12/1/07 at William Byrd High School the Staunton River Wrestling team gets there season started against Blacksburg, Salem and William Byrd. Coach Long has been working the boys hard getting them ready and on Saturday they plan to show us what hard work can do.

  So it would be great to have a large turnout to show all the Wrestlers that we support them. And see them give a whipping to the other teams one of which (WB) is Ranked in the top 10 in the State.

11/25/07-There is a Parents' Meeting Wednesday, Nov 28 after practice All parents Varsity and B- Team Need to be there
  Coach will talk about season. And we  need to elect 4 officers whose positions are up on the board - President, Sec., 2 Directors (one for concessions and one at large). 
  I will try to have info about traveling to NC .and there will be SRHS shirts and decals for sale

 Have a blessed day
                                       Susan

  11/25/07- On 11/29/07  There is a B-Team Wrestling Match at Andrew Lewis against Andrew Lewis and Clifton Forge everyone who can make it please come out and support the Team they have been practicing hard and are ready to get the season started

11/16/07- Scrimmage Match this Saturday
At Patrick Henry High School, 9:00 AM we Wrestle Patrick Henry after that match is over we will Wrestle Martinsville
   Wrestlers need to be at Staunton River BEFORE 7:30 because that is when the bus is leaving

11/15/07- News from the past few weeks-

A Big Thank You to Ron Long, John Maddox, Albert Epperly, Ron Tyree and his friend for giving up their Saturday to paint the new room.  Hopefully this will allow the county to complete their work so SRHS can hold practice in it on November 12th.  JOB WELL DONE!

Due to the fact that school is closed on November 6 (Election Day) - Chuck Roselund and David Carr have asked that I inform you we will be meeting WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7.  Sorry for any inconvience this may have caused but we believe we will have better attend on the 7th.  Please help to get the word out.

 Arrangements have been made for water to be at the new building.  If all goes well (we'll know Friday) it will be there by the first practice.  Still need to visit with school and merryman about moving storage unit.  I'm sure some spare time will pop up in the next 24 hours to get that done.

 Thanks in advance Susan

A majority of the Wrestling booster board has voted to approve the following purchases:
  Varsity - both white and black singlets to replace those which were lost or damaged so there will be two complete sets and shorts for warm-ups.  Also additional mat cleaner and mop heads have been ordered.

   B-team - purchase the following so there will be a complete set of uniforms for the starting B-team: 4 - women's singlets @ 31.75 each, 24 men's singlets @ 31.75 each, 40 pairs of shorts (work with Caoch Long so we can get them all together through the school), 20 headgear @ 13.50 and 4 skullcaps @ 19.50.  This should be a total (with shipping) of $1600.

  After talking with Rick Falls, AD and the bookkeeper at SRHS, you need to get a PO through the school and the Boosters' will tranfer funds from the Golden Eagle Booster account (bingo funds) to SRHS to cover the invoices.  Anything not listed above has not been approved for payment by the Wrestling Boosters.

  Hopefully we will have a successful rec tournament on Nov 30 and will have additional funds to assist both teams.
  Susan
11/15/07 - New Page
    I am starting this new page to try to keep everyone informed about what is going on with the Wrestling team.

So any information I receive I will post on the board, you can send me information by E-Mail or Phone 540-297-2307 or you can just tell me :)