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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Update: Evergreen's Megan Beckow is Patch's MVP This Week

She scored 17 points, had five steals and four rebounds in a 67-23 girls basketball victory over Nobles Street-Muchin in the Class 3A DeLaSalle Regional.

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Monday, September 12, 2011

IHSA Announces New Individual Wrestling State Final Format

Plan allows for six medal winners in all three classes of competition beginning in 2012.

The Illinois High School Association Board of Directors approved a recommendation for a format change to the IHSA individual wrestling state finals at its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday. The new format will feature 16 qualifiers per each of the 14 weight classes in each of the three classes. The format also will feature consolation wrestlebacks beginning after the quarterfinal rounds and the top six individuals in each weight class will medal. In order to complete the expanded tournament, the state tournament will now begin on Thursday, which had previously been reserved for warm-up mat time and meetings. “Essentially, what we have done is taken the Class 3A tournament format and copied it for Class 1A and Class 2A,” said IHSA …

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Nolan

10:36 am on Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Maybe you didn't read or understand the entire article. It says that the classes are now fairly and equally represented. All the kids are not getting a championship medal, they are getting a medal that represents their placement in that tournament. This helps to place them in different classes and against equal opponents in future competitions (see most students tend to graduate high school at …   more ›

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