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Alyssa Lampe's Championship match
2/25/06
1st period
Antczak in on a shot cant finish
hes in again, and fails to finish again
and finally finishes for a takedown
lampe gets a reversal
antcazk escapes
antczak 3-2
2nd period
Lampe chooses down
antczak riding tough and rides her out
3rd period
antczak choses down
Lampe releases him
Antczak in on a single and cant finish
hes in again and finishes for the takedown
she escapes
antcazk wins 6-3
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Justin Ware 2/25/06
She's been wrestling since she was in Kindergarten.
And for years, Alyssa Lampe's only goal was to compete on the same mat with the boys.
"I never even dreamed of this when I was a freshman, I just wanted to make varsity, so I've come a long way."
Lampe quickly realized that goal, and this weekend, she's shooting for a whole lot more.
And we're not talking about a Rudy character, who comes in during the last minute of the last game just to get some playing time.
We're talking about one of the best wrestlers in the state of Wisconsin, who's been dominating everyone she's wrestled, all year.
"To look at it right now, the worst she can do is fourth," said Jeff Lampe, Alyssa's dad. "For a girl to finish fourth in the state of Wisconsin in wrestling, that's awesome."
Alyssa's dad Jeff, says he's already proud of both of his kids.
Alyssa, and her brother Anthony are seniors and they both came into the night just one win away from a title match–up on Saturday.
Alyssa's match started off with her jumping out to an early lead, but her opponent fought back.
And after the second period, the match was deadlocked, 5 to 5.
Then, early in the third, she falls behind a very good wrestler from Dodgeville, 7 to 6.
And then ...
With a quick escape and take down of her own, Alyssa Lampe became the first girl in the history of Wisconsin high school wrestling, to advance to the state championship match.
"It felt great," said Alyssa. "I thought he had me at the end, in the take down, I'm just really excited."
A few minutes later, her brother won his match, and will join her in an attempt to take home two state titles for the Lampe family on Saturday.
But win or lose, Alyssa Lampe has already carved her name, in state wrestling history.
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Tomahawk senior is first girl to reach championship round
www.wbay.com 2/25/06
MADISON, Wis. Tomahawk senior Alyssa Lampe made history tonight at the state high school wrestling meet in Madison.
She became the first girl to qualify for the state championship round at the state meet.
After earning a first-round bye, Lampe beat Freedom's Kyle Kleuskens 6-3 to become the first first female to compete in the state semifinals. She then beat Dodgeville sophomore Grant Sutter 9-7 in their 103-pound match to advance to Saturday night's championship round.
Lampe is a three-time state qualifier, but in her previous two trips to state she managed only one win each time.
She says she's excited about reaching the finals.
When she beat Sutter on a takedown with only eight seconds remaining, snapping a 7-to-7 tie, there was a thunderous roar from the crowd at the Kohl Center.
Her brother Anthony also qualified for the championships, in the 112-pound class. But it took a court order for him to make it to the meet. He had been charged Wednesday with punching another sister ... and the school district banned him from the state meet until a judge overruled that decision.
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2/25/06
: The novelty has worn off. After qualifying for state for three straight years, Tomahawk's Alyssa Lampe is no longer just the first girl to make it to a state individual tournament. She's a state place-winner.
By defeating Freedom's Kleuskens 6-3 in a 103-pound quarterfinal and Grant Sutter of Dodgeville 9-7 in a semifinal, Lampe, a senior who is 44-4, reached the final.
"I thought he wrestled a real fine match," Freedom coach Mike Buechler said of Kleuskens. "He went away from the game plan a little bit and tied up with her and she's a little stronger than he is. But when he didn't tie up, he got in, he had a good shot. He got a takedown on her and almost had a second takedown on her, but they went out of bounds."
2/25/06
€ Tomahawk senior Alyssa Lampe made history Friday night when she became the first girl to qualify for the state championship round at the tournament.
After earning a first-round bye, Lampe beat Freedoms Kyle Kleuskens 6-3 to become the first female to compete in the state semifinals.
Lampe then beat Dodgeville sophomore Grant Sutter 9-7 in their 103-pound match to advance to Saturday night's championship round.
“I never dreamed about this when I was a freshman,” said Lampe (45-4), a three-time state qualifier who had won her first match and then lost her next two at state as a sophomore and junior at 103 pounds.
Lampe will meet Thane Antczak of Chetek/Prairie Farm in the finals. Antczak (47-2) ousted Lancaster's Jase Langkamp 10-4 in the other semifinal.
Her brother Anthony Lampe also qualified for the state finals at 112 when he beat Luke Wiegman of Cuba City/Southwestern 12-2.
He was allowed to wrestle after a judge overruled the Tomahawk School District's decision to ban him from the competition. Police had arrested him Wednesday on a charge of domestic child abuse that intentionally caused physical harm for allegedly punching another sister, possibly breaking her nose.
2/25/06
As Curwick was getting taken down by Leviner late in his semifinal loss, the Kohl Center crowd erupted.
That's because crowd favorite Alyssa Lampe (47-4) advanced to the Division 2 103-pound final with her 9-7 victory over Dodgeville's Grant Sutter.
Lampe can make history by becoming the first female to claim a WIAA state wrestling title with a win over Chetek/Prairie Farm's Thane Antczak (50-2) tonight.
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Wis. Girl Makes History At State Wrestling Meet
wfrv.com 2/25/06
(AP) MADISON Tomahawk senior Alyssa Lampe made history Friday night when she became the first girl to qualify for the state championship round at the 63rd annual Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association individual state wrestling tournament.
After earning a first-round bye, Lampe beat Freedoms Kyle Kleuskens 6-3 to become the first female to compete in the state semifinals.
Lampe then beat Dodgeville sophomore Grant Sutter 9-7 in their 103-pound match to advance to Saturday night's championship round.
"I never dreamed about this when I was a freshman," said Lampe (45-4), a three-time state qualifier who had won her first match and then lost her next two at state as a sophomore and junior at 103 pounds.
"I'm really excited about being in the finals."
Lampe took Sutter (44-4) to the mat with just 8 seconds remaining to snap a 7-7 tie. Moments later, Lampe leapt into the air to a thunderous roar of approval from the Kohl Center crowd.
"It was just amazing. I rode the emotion of the fans through the whole match," Lampe said. "I couldn't let them down."
Lampe will meet Thane Antczak of Chetek/Prairie Farm in the finals. Antczak (47-2) ousted Lancaster's Jase Langkamp 10-4 in the other semifinal.
Antczak and Lampe will be meeting for the third time this season. Antczak won the first match 7-2 at a team sectional match on Feb. 14. Lampe countered with a 2-1 victory at last Saturday's individual sectional meet.
"I'll be nervous so I'm glad we'll be wrestling right away," said Lampe, who has also qualified for state in cross country and track and field. "The whole atmosphere will be great. But I want to win the state championship. That's why I'm here."
Her brother Anthony Lampe also qualified for the state finals at 112 when he beat Luke Wiegman of Cuba City/Southwestern 12-2.
He was allowed to wrestle after a judge overruled the Tomahawk School District's decision to ban him from the competition. Police had arrested him Wednesday on a charge of domestic child abuse that intentionally caused physical harm for allegedly punching another sister, possibly breaking her nose.
Co-head coach Bob Skubal and Anthony Lampe declined to comment on his legal troubles, but Lampe was pleased his sister will be competing for the state championship.
"I'm just as proud of Alyssa getting to the finals as I am of myself," said Anthony Lampe (49-2), who was fourth at 119 pounds last year. "She proved that girls can and should compete here. She's a true champion."
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Community Sports: Fast Breaks for Feb. 25
By Staff Reports
Saturday, February 25, 2006 11:54 AM PST
Girls wrestling championships
The sixth-annual Oregon Girls Wrestling Championships is scheduled for Saturday, March 4, at David Douglas HighSchool in Portland.
Weigh-in and registration will be held from 7 to 9 a.m. and wrestling starts at 10 a.m.
The cost is $25 per wrestler at the door.
Girls wrestling is one of the fastest-growing sports for high school girls in the United States, according to the United States Girls Wrestling Association.
Several wrestlers competed in recent district meets in Oregon and at least two qualified for the state meet, including one from Lebanon in the Midwestern League.
Misty Corwin of Waldport placed fifth in the 103-pound weight class at the Class 2A-1A state meet in Salem.
Earlier this month, Michaela Hutchinson of Skyview High School in Soldotna, Alaska, became the first girl to win a state championship, taking the 103-pound weight class with a 1-0 decision in the finals.
According to USGWA, five Oregon girls are ranked in the top 12 in the country in their weight class, including Corwin, ranked fifth at 100 pounds.
The girls state championships will be followed by the national championshipos, scheduled for April 1-2 at Lake Orion, Mich. Last year, that event drew 622 wrestlers.
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Buckhannon-Upshur's Brittany Woodall, seeking to become the first girl to place in the Class AAA tournament, was eliminated in a third-round consolation match. Wirt County's Erica Dye is the only girl to place in any class, finishing second at the Class AA-A meet in 2002 at 103 pounds.
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Whitbeck to make gender statement
First girl to reach states leads Section II hopefuls into battle of the best
By DAVID FILKINS, Staff writer
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First published: Friday, February 24, 2006
Teenage golf sensation Michelle Wie could learn a thing or two from Duanesburg wrestler Amy Whitbeck.
For years, Wie, the 16-year-old Hawaiian known for blasting 300-yard drives, has professed her desire to play in the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National, a male-only club in Augusta, Ga.
The possibility exists Wie could gain entrance through a series of qualifying tournaments, but she has failed to get there so far.
Whitbeck, 15, has gone one step further in her pursuit to infiltrate what has been an exclusively male fraternity in her sport. After winning last weekend's Section II championship at 96 pounds in the small school division, Whitbeck, a sophomore, became the first girl to advance to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association championship in its 44-year history.
The two-day tournament kicks off today at Nassau Veterans Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island, with champions crowned Saturday at each weight class in the small and large school division.
Making it this far is a victory in itself for Whitbeck, regardless of where she finishes at states.
"Since I began wrestling (seven years ago) making it this far has been one of my goals," Whitbeck said earlier in the week. She intends to wrestle at one of seven colleges that offer girls' wrestling, and has Olympic aspirations. "It's like wow, I finally made it."
After a grueling season, every wrestler in Section II would likely share her sentiment, though many of them know what it's like to advance this far into the season.
Ten of the 30 Section II wrestlers in last year's state tournament are back, including Duanesburg senior Jim Almy, the reigning 275-pound champion among small schools, and Shenendehowa freshman Austin Meys, who was the large school champion at 105 pounds last year but will wrestle at 125 pounds this time.
Christian Brothers Academy junior Michael Chaires is back after being the large school runner-up at 145 pounds last year, as is Hudson Falls senior Corey Barber, the small school runner-up at 140 last year now wrestling at 145.
Barber's brother, Aaron, is the Section II representative at 140. They are the second set of brothers since 1991 to wrestle in the same state championship. The other was Austin and Hunter Meys, who did it for Shenendehowa last year. Hunter Meys lost a 3-1 overtime decision to Chaires in the Section II final.
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UIL STATE WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
chron.com 2/24/06
• When: Today and Saturday, 9 a.m.
• Where: Delco Center in Austin
Boys
• Notable: Klein Oak finished second as a team in 2005 with only three wrestlers. All three advanced to the championship finals. This year Klein Oak arrives with four qualifiers. Klein The Woodlands, Westside and Cinco Ranch also should finish in the top 10.
• Quotable: "(Klein Oak) has guys who can score big points. Klein also has lot of kids going and both could be top four at state. They have the numbers and those numbers are talented."
— Klein Collins coach Kenny Rucker,
on Klein Oak's state title chances
• Athletes to watch:
Shane Doughman, Klein Oak — The saavy senior at 119 is a returning state champion with a 41-1 season record.
Kyle Jones, Klein Collins — At 47-0, Jones has beenunstoppable at 215, not allowing a single offensive point to his opponents due to a combination of quickness, strength and technique.
Erik Spjut, Woodlands — The 112-pounder (50-1) forces the action and counters with good technique.
Jamie Sheets, Cinco Ranch — A 2004 state champion at 103, Sheets (34-2) is in pursuit of the 140 championship.
Blake Allen, Klein Oak — Practicing with Doughman has paid off for the Panther at 125. Allen (46-1) edged Oak Ridge's Matt Campos (25-3) 11-9 in the Region III championship.
Girls
• Notable: Katy Taylor takes the area's strongest field to Austin with four regional champions and seven girls total. Katy is close behind with seven girls, including two regional champions. The girls' team title has been won by a school north of Dallas each year since 1999.
• Quotable: "It's a really big advantage to come from a wrestling family. My brother (Andrew Vasquez) still helps me out at home, and we watch video together. He'll definitely be there at state. I still work out with my dad a lot, too. Hopefully all of the extra work I've been doing will pay off at state."
— Cinco Ranch wrestler Raquel Vasquez , a 128-pound senior
• Athletes to watch:
Lindsey Brooks, Klein — The unbeaten 40-0 junior has only been seriously challenged twice this season after winning state convincingly as an athletic, aggressive sophomore at 148 pounds with a 44-1 record.
Lara Hamilton, Katy Taylor — The 33-2 Mustang senior has three regional titles and one state championship on her résumé, but at 119 pounds, Hamilton wants to finish with a flurry after struggling at state in 2005.
Courtney Weiser, Cy-Fair — This senior (33-3), at 110 pounds, mixes strategy and an intense weight program to gain the upper hand at this light weight.
Kiki Williams, Katy — Willams (20-1) chases 215-pound opponents down and does not let up until she notches a pin, an approach that served her well as a 2005 state quarterfinalist.
Adele Kurt, Katy Taylor — With a 3-2 regional upset over Katy's Kaccee Ravenberg, Kurt (22-2) moves into contention for the 185 state finals.
By the numbers
47consecutive victories this season by Klein Collins' 215-pound Region III champion Kyle Jones.
2losses is the most by any one of Cinco Ranch's three regional champions — Jamie Sheets (34-2) at 140, Matt Harris (41-1) at 160 and Will McNair (38-2) at 180.
72consecutive victories for Klein defending champion Lindsey Brooks, since a disqualification for a rough throw early last year.
10Region III girls finalists from Katy Taylor and Katy.
TERRY CARTER
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The Rock keeps Rolling
Lady 'Horns take control in their bid for another mat crown
By Jeremy Heath 2/25/06
jeremy.heath@amarillo.com
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AUSTIN - The Caprock girls wrestling team took charge of its destiny in its quest for its third consecutive state title.
After a slow start in 2005 left the Caprock girls scrambling to capture their second straight title by one-half point over El Paso Hanks, a lightning start this year has the Lady Longhorns in a position to capture a three-peat.
Friday at the Delco Center, the Lady Longhorns won all six of their first-round matches and four of six quarterfinal matches to accumulate 49 first-day points, 20 more than Arlington High and Southlake Carroll, which are tied for second. Katy and Katy Taylor are tied for fourth with 28 points.
If Caprock holds its lead, it would be the fourth state title since 2000 for the Lady Horns.
"We need to keep fighting," Caprock coach Scott Tankersley said. "We don't have near enough points. You never know what can happen. We can't come out saying, 'We're Caprock. We're better than everybody else.' Because we've got too big a target on our backs."
Hereford is 10th with 21 points and two wrestlers in the semifinals, Tascosa is 12th with 18 points and one in the semis, River Road is 24th with 11 points and one in the semis, and Amarillo High is 32nd with seven points and one in the semis.
"We need to keep fighting. We don't have near enough points."
Caprock wrestling coach Scott Tankersley
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Caprock's Lisa Martinez (102 pounds) will face Carroll's Tiffany Larriba in the semis. Martinez pinned Cypress Ridge's Jessica Nguyen in 3:24 in the first round and beat Austin Crockett's Nancy Rodriguez 14-3 in the quarterfinals.
Caprock freshman Daffney Barbosa (110) will face Hereford's Georgette Villegas in the semis. Barbosa beat Dallas Jefferson's Roxana Castillo on a disqualification in the first round and beat Cypress Fairbanks' Courtney Weisner 11-3 in the quarters. Villegas pinned Arlington Bowie's TJ Cannon in the first round and beat Austin LBJ's Rachel Woodruff 7-6 in the quarters. The winner of that semifinal will face the winner of the semifinal between Tascosa's defending state champion, Angel Diaz, and Austin Crockett's Alicia Sherrill. Diaz pinned Centennial's Breanna McNeil and Houston Langham Creek's Courtney McGuire in a total time of 1:18.
Caprock's Stephanea Hignight (138) will face Seguin's Ivonne Rodriguez in the semis. Hignight pinned Mission's Aliera Villareal in 1:12 in the first round and Waller's Whitney Disotelle in 3:30 in the quarters.
Caprock's Maci Alvarado (148) will face Austin Akins' Samantha Richardson in the semis. Alvarado pinned Killeen Ellison's Sasha Nelson in 1:57 in the first round and Arlington Martin's Brittane Mergerson in the quarters.
Hereford has Chelsi Pickens still alive at 95. Pickens will face Centennial's Lene Wood in the semis. Pickens La Joya's Diana Jaime in 1:50 in the first round and beat South Grand Prairie's Alex Sprinkles 8-2 in the quarters.
AHS' Bethany Courkamp is alive at 102 and will face El Paso Hanks' Aubrey Lowe in the semis. Courkamp scored a 7-3 win over Katy Taylor's Courtney Hole in the first round and a 5-4 win over Centennial's Emily Martin in the quarters.
River Road's Natali Ramos (165) is still in the hunt for an individual title. She pinned Klein Oak's Stephanie King in the first round and held off Austin High's Ana Torres 10-9 in the quarters.
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Girls State Wrestling
Impact: The Caprock girls, looking for their third straight state title, lead Arlington High and Southlake Carroll by 20 points heading into the semifinals.
Key Stat: Four Caprock girls are in the semifinals and two are alive in the consolation bracket.
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Carroll wrestler isn't into stressBy HEIDI PEDERSON
Star-Telegram Staff WriterSOUTHLAKE -- 2/24/06
Carroll senior wrestler Tiffany Larriba found that she had more success once she lowered her expectations.
Larriba qualifed for the UIL state meet as a freshman and sophomore. But in her first two trips to Austin, Larriba didn't win a match.
Last season at 102 pounds, though, she broke through. She was one win from placing in Austin, despite the fact that the bracket had twice the number of competitors as previous years. And Larriba had gone to state as a junior with lowered expectations, because she was coming back from a severely broken arm.
Larriba is going into the 2006 state championships this weekend as the Region 2 102-pound champion. This time, however, she is trying to take things in stride.
"As long as I go out there and wrestle my best, I'll be happy," she said. "My goal this season was to make it more fun and less stressful."
If her goal was to wrestle her best, she must be happy. Larriba is 29-2, including a loss to the defending 110-pound state champion. She has displayed confidence and versatility in her matches.
"This year she's worked on just being more aggressive," Carroll coach Ron Mendoza said. "Her technical skills were good, but she's been more of a defensive wrestler."
Larriba had begun putting in extra training time -- with an eye on improved results -- when her sophomore season ended. She had been training with a club coach who put her on an intense program that included wrestling boys. In school practices, per UIL rules, girls are not allowed to wrestle boys.
"The drilling was a lot harder, very rapid, and we did a lot more situational live wrestling," she said. "And some days he had me wrestle five boys in a row, to build my stamina up."
But that July, Larriba broke her left arm at a wrestling camp. She said the accident broke two bones and required four operations.
Her recovery required months, and she went into last year's postseason putting less pressure on herself to win.
At this year's state meet, the 102-pound favorite is El Paso Hanks' Awbrey Lowe, the defending champion. Larriba plans to be ready, but relaxed.
"Last year I approached state as if my goal was only to improve, and it worked," she said. "I know I just have to go out there with a positive attitude."
IN THE KNOW
UIL state wrestling meet
Today and Saturday, Delco Center, Austin
BOYS
189 Robert Prigmore, Carroll
GIRLS
95 Jordon West, Carroll
102 Tiffany Larriba, Carroll
138 Richelle Thompson, Carroll
165 (alt.) Savanna Smith, Carroll
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Plenty going on this weekend, it's just not traditional
Fri, Feb 24, 2006
With most of the local prep basketball teams done for the season or on the road this weekend, and a – let's face it – less-than-exciting Winter Olympics, you may think there's nothing in the sports world worth watching.
But you'd be wrong.
Instead of the usual weekend sports routine, try something unique, and with a little local flavor, too.
There's plenty going on this weekend in the coastal Georgia area — it just may not be what you're used to.
Just up the road in Darien at 10 a.m. Saturday is the Georgia Girls Wrestling State Championships at McIntosh County Academy.
Kent Bailo, the founder and director of the United States Girls Wrestling Association, started the national organization in 1998. Last year's national tournament had 622 participants and was the largest girl's wrestling event in the world. Two years ago, women's wrestling was, for the first time, part of the Summer Olympics.
Currently, Bailo said, Texas and Hawaii are the only state high school athletic associations with sanctioned girls wrestling, but Washington state and California are expected to follow suit next year.
The sport's profile is increasing, and the interest is there. Bailo is now making sure girls have the same opportunities to compete on their own teams as boys would.
"I'm kind of a big believer that interest follows opportunity, not the other way around," Bailo said.
Wrestling is a sport that requires and teaches strategy, self-discipline and self-defense. Very helpful lessons, Bailo said, so if they're important for high school boys to learn, shouldn't they be important and available for high school girls, as well?
I couldn't agree more. His efforts to spread the opportunity for girls to have the same chance in the sport is a cause worth applauding.
Saturday in Darien is your chance to see some very good athletes compete in a challenging and rewarding sport.