What does the
lineup look like?
We just had
wrestle-offs and we are not complete yet. Still some to wrestle
tomorrow. We are also missing Jon Uhrin until toward the end of
the year as he suffered an ankle injury last week in practice. We
have a lot of good depth in the middle weights which will allow
for movement when necessary. Lineup as follows with many possible
changes.
103 Rodney Harnett 9th
112 Cody Kelly 10th
119 Sam Fuchs 10th
Luke Taylor 9th
125 Robbie Miller 12th
130 Corey
Brown 11th Curtis Reynolds 11th
135 Steve Nestor 12th Brandon Maun 11th
140 Kaine
Kulka 10th or Rex Cooper 11th or Tony D’urso 10th
145 Aaron
Nestor 12th
152 Mike
DiGregorio 11th or Ryan Dawes 11th
160 Jonathan
Uhrin 12th (when back from injury)
171 Lawrence Beckman 12th
189 Mike
Miller 11th
215 Will
Ringer 10th
285 Corey
Shields 11th
Why are you not facing greenville this year?
We are facing Greenville this year at the
Ultimate Duals in Brookville. All the teams invited this year will
be wrestling each other. We agreed that wrestling 3 times last
year was a lot and used the opportunity to wrestle someone else.
That gave us the opportunity to schedule Bald Eagle Area. We will
more than likely wrestle Greenville several times this year
anyway.
Good luck this year---beat Bald
Eagle, I don't like them here in Lewistown. Do you have any
shirts, etc. for sale this year? How about some homemade
cookies? Say hey to John T. Alan Peters in Lewistown
Thanks Alan.
It’s always good to hear from you. Yes we have some shirts and
I’ll let my wife know you’re interested. Send me your e-mail to
bhills@pymtele.net. John and I are
definitely suffering withdrawal from the Xmas cookies from our
good friends in Lewistown. Hopefully you’ve seen we have done OK
by making some changes in our schedule. Hope to see you again.
Tell all hello.
Congratulations on a great season last year. Can you top that
performance? By the looks of the pre-season rankings, it looks
like you can..
We had a great team with outstanding senior
leadership last season. Those seniors made the rest of the team
accountable and to stand up. This years group is similar and has
set their goals high. We have some guys that need to know it’s
their time and at Reynolds we always have the unexpected turn into
very good.
Coach Hills, since this match with BEA is so big and our gym
only fit 900. Why didn't we think to get the match moved somewhere
else. With the way everyone is talking, there is not going to be
any seat left by Friday. I'm glad i got my tickets pre-order!!
There was discussion of trying to move the
match to a college facility similar to the old days when we
wrestled at Edinboro and Westminster. 1974 & 1975. We figured BEA
had never been to Reynolds and we wanted to have the match in our
home gym. There were still 200 as of last night. I am sure it is
lower now. Two pre-season nationally ranked teams meeting in
Reynolds is really great and something for our community to be
very proud of. Reynolds 24 by Amatuer Wrestling News and BEA 23 by
WIN magazine.
Coach, that was a great write up on
you and Casey Taylor earning the awards. :-) Congratulations
Thanks so much! The National award came totally unexpected being
named Region 2 Coach of the year out of 8 regions nationally. My
thanks specifically to Tom Elling for the opportunity. Casey
getting nominated and selected for the PA HOF is really the
accomplishment as he is our first wrestler from RHS to be
inducted. Coach Neal Lineman is the only RHS person currently in
the PA HOF.
Less than 48 hours before your meeting with Bald Eagle Area, what
do you project your lineup to be when you face the Eagles Saturday
afternoon?
We will look for the best opportunities
against this great team. You can see somewhat our lineup from
question #1. We have and are currently doing our homework to see
where the best positions will be to give us any advantages. This
is a great team that returns 11 or 12 letterman from last years
AAA State Runner-up tournament team. They lost some great seniors
as we did but return a very nice nucleus as we do also. They have
some very impressive people in Wright, Struble and Paswall plus
numerous District 6 placers They were the NW Region AAA Champions
last year.
how does this years team matchup to last year's team.
Very similar although I would say we are
inexperienced at the Book-ends. 103 and 285. We will start Rod
Harnett a freshman at 103 and Corey Shields at 285. Corey is a
junior that has been in the background of Mike Edwards the past 2
seasons and has looked better than expected. We are pretty solid
from 112 thru 215 with almost a letterman at every weight class.
We also have tremendous depth in the middle allowing for numerous
strategic moves.
are you only
wrestling one day at the ultimate duals? how many matches will you
wrestle?
Yes one day this year with 5 matches on
Saturday.
any injuries this year so far?
We have already been hit with the injury bug
before any competitions. I guess the intensity in our practice
room backfires on us sometimes. Jonathan Uhrin had surgery on his
ankle yesterday and will be out until mid January. We have had
several minor injuries that are just enough to mess things up
also. Injuries to key personnel you can never expect.
do you think this years team will do at ironman and the beast?
We hope to finish in the top 15 at both
tournaments again. Not having Jonathan will hurt our chances. The
Ironman has expanded and added more good teams so it will be
harder to finish as high as we have the past 3 years but our goal
is to do so. Either way it is having the opportunity to wrestle in
those environments and not where your team places that means the
most. For those of you that have never attended I would encourage
you to do so as these elite tournaments are the real deal. Pa
States is minor compared to them.
what weights do you see your line up at the end of the year? I
thought Cody would be at 103lbs, he would have a good run at the
championship as would the Nestors a weight down. GO RAIDERS on a
great season.
Possible end of the year 103 Harnett 112
Kelly 119 Fuchs 125 Robbie Miller 130 Corey Brown 135 S Nestor 140
A Nestor possibly. Kaine Kulka, Rex Cooper 145 A. Nestor possibly.
Mike DiGregorio 152 Ryan Dawes 160 Jon Uhrin 171 Lawrence Beckman
189 Mike Miller 215 Will Ringer 275 Cory Shields My guess and
purely speculative as injuries and a lot of things will happen
before then. We also have Reynolds, Maun, D’Urso and others available.
who will be the top teams in district 10... in the state?
Within D-10 I believe we have excellent competition. Ft Lebouef
will be stronger than some expect, Greenville, Harborcreek and
Saegertown I expect to be strong. Grove City has a strong nucleus
back and I felt they were a very good team last year. Mercer is
always competitive. Statewide- Northwestern Lehigh has most of
their team back. Additionally Burrell, Mt Pleasant, Northern
Lehigh and Line Mountain are expected to be good. I also see
Berwick as additional competition as they have dropped from AAA
this season.
Coach Hills where do you think your stiffest competition will come
from in D-10 any surprise teams that maybe lurkin
Please see the last answer. Also we may now have a point available
as West Middlesex has once again screwed our schedule up. If
anyone is interested in a dual match please let me know and maybe
we can get something scheduled. I just know it is very hard to
schedule something once the season has started. We also need some
Junior High matches. Casey is attempting to get several teams
together at RHS on 12/30/06. Let us know if you are interested.
Thanks.
are there any other new wrestlers this year besides robbie miller?
Not that I am aware of.
Coach, how close are we to the return of the epic Rey-Gnv
battles of the late 60's early 70's?
I think the staff at Greenville is doing a nice job of building their
program. It appears they have been gearing toward next year as the
year they attempt to overtake us. Needless to say those are the
years I like most. We would love an underdog role and I guess we
haven’t had a rebuilding year for awhile. I do caution that we
will only lose 5 starters this season (counting Jon Uhrin
currently injured) and do have some special 8th graders coming up.
The other thing to remember is longevity and to remain good over a
long long period of time.
Will there be any exhibition matches vs BEA this saturday? And if
so possible who?
We expect to have 6-8 JV matches on Saturday. The match starts at
2:00 pm with the JV bouts.
I would like to thank all of you for the questions you
have submitted and hope you enjoy the upcoming season.