Life & Times of 5 Busy Nortons

Sunday, January 12, 2025

A Week of Matches! Boys v. Edway, Senior Night, and A Scramble

Okay.  I can't get pics in order these days.  And I'm not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good because yeah.  I'm maxed.  Last weekend was Gut Check and Libby's injury.  This week was a match on Tuesday, a match on Wednesday, and a scramble on Thursday.  And oh yeah, we hosted all 3 of them.  

The Ed-Way boys handed it to us on Tuesday.  But we wanted to give everyone a match, so we basically wrestled 3 back to back duals.  So we were there LATE.  

Wednesday was Senior Night for our girls, and the only official dual we were wrestling.  It didn't look good for us.  They have some talented wrestlers, and we had no Libby or Finley in our lineup.  Also, without our freshman heavyweight (broken collarbone) and another senior who's out for injury, our lineup is not full.  Not even close.  But we managed a big win (they kept out two of their best wretlers thinking they wouldn't need them to beat us.)  But we did it! It was so exciting.  Two of our new wrestlers pulled out pins and that started us off right.  It was awesome.  Perfect Senior Night--well it would have been even more perfect if Libby could have wrestled, but it was actually more miraculous without Libby wrestling.  Sarah took a forfeit, so no Nortons wrestled and still it was amazing.  (Libby sang the National Anthem and it was beautiful.  Not perfect.  But awesome.) 

Then Thursday we hosted a scramble.  It was our first time hosting a scramble, and we wanted to use trackwrestling.  It was a bit of an adventure figuring out how to make it all work (we ended up having to get tech support on the phone) but we did it!  The ref showed up super late (and only one showed up--so we recruited Derek Norton for Mat 2.)  It was great for our girls to get in some more matches. 


Sarah won both her matches! 


I did some coaching




Derek didn't have official ref stuff, so ribbons and a mint tin for the toss.  Haha. 


The Seniors! 


So cute, right? 
The arm...it's healing.  




Our Senior!  Can't believe it. 


And then on Friday we left for Kelso!  I'm waiting to get Jeremy's pictures from Kelso before I post about it.  But spoiler--Sarah wrestled tough! 

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