AAU Elementary School Duals

Photos from this past weekend's Elementary School Duals.

The AAU Elementary school duals are a great experience and I recommend them to anyone that has the opportunity to participate. Our team - Inferno - was made up of kids (mostly 5th graders) from the following clubs:

St Charles North
Force
Lincoln Way W.C.
Martinez Elite
Bolingbrook
Wolves W.C.
Lyons W.C.
Villa Park W.C.
Arlington Cardinals
Falcon W.C.
Lincoln W.C.
Hinsdale W.C.
Mahomet W.C.
Downers Cougars
O.F.A
Truly an "all star" team.

We left Plainfield at about 6:00 PM and after a tourturous drive through the mountains, arrived at Kingsport at about 6AM. Weigh ins and lunch, followed by a little sleep, then came the wrestling!

Our first series of matches was in the "pool competition". We were in Pool 'A' along with the following teams:

Georgia Black
Indy Gold
Iowa Gold
Michigan Myway
Pennsylvania Blue
Tennessee

We wrestled Iowa Gold at 7:15 and Michigan Myway at 8:30 on Friday night to get a good start on the pool. We won them both.

Next, on Saturday morning, we lost to PA Blue at 10:15, beat Tennessee at 11:45, beat Georgia Black at 2:15, and lost a squeaker to Indy Gold at 4:00. This was good enough to get us into the GOLD bracket where we wrestled Iowa Black at 8:45. These guys were tremendously good, and beat us 61-12.

That put us in the consolation bracket of the Gold bracket where we wrestled Indy Gold again on Sunday morning. Unfortunately, they beat us in a squeaker AGAIN.

We were able to pound on the Indiana Brawlers in the 7th place match.