Ed’s Word: Number: 5 November 27, 2009
Ed’s Word: Number: 5 November 27, 2009
1. Some sad news to report: Donna Turner, wife of Hall of Famer James Turner has passed away. Her funeral will be on Saturday the 28th in Marion. Jim’s address is: 11956 Norman Rd - Marion, Il 62959 Our sypathies to Jim and his family.
2. I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving with your families yesterday, I know I did. Prayers go out to those in the Military who could not be with loved ones and are in harms way. It is not easy to be away from family at this time of the year. In this area, many organizations and private citizens opened their facilities to veteran’s and to men and women at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Loads of thanks to them.
3. Hall of Famer Matt Lackey - all state from Moline - All American at Illinois has joined the Staff at Lock Haven University as an Assistant Coach. Come home when you can Matt.
4. Sunday, a committee of 20 to 25 will select the 2010 Hall of Fame inductees, based on your nominations and those that have been carried over. So remember your nominations are looked at and acted upon, of course nominations now would not be considered until next year. Also at this meeting the Grand Marshals will be selected and the Lifetime Achievement awards named. All of the rewardees will be named at a later date and actual inductions will be held in April.
5. Results of the Nebraska open - 157 - Brett Robbins - 4th for Northern Iowa.
6. Finnish Open in GR Jacob Curby - did not place; Peter Kowalczuk - Did not place; Chad Vandiver placed 5th and Joe Betterman won the Bronze. The United States was 2nd.
7. Results of the Concordia Open: 133 - 3rd - Jake Denhoff - Elmhurst; 4th - Nathan Fitzenreider - North Central; 5th - Jake Oster - Elmhurst; 6th - John Starzyk - North Central. 141 - 2nd - Austin Bautista - UW-Whitewater; 5th - Andrew Zobac - North Central; 157 - Champion - Charles Curran - Elmhurst; 5th - Dan Hamilton - Elmhurst; 6th - Jesse Milks - UW-Platteville. 165 - 2nd - Vinny Alber - UW-Platteville. 197 - lst - Troy Carlson - U. of Chicago. HWT - lst - Mark Corsello - Elmhurst.
8. Some college scores: SIUEdwardsville lost to Coe 3-44, Cornell College 9 - 3l, Iowa Lakes 9 - 33 and the U. of Iowa 0-51. North Central beat the U. of Chicago 20-15; Northwestern tied Eastern Michigan 18-18; Illinois beat Davidson 47-0, West Virginia 23-15 and lost to Pittsburgh 15-18.
9. In the Super 32 Challenge in October - Ben Whitford of Marmion was 4th at 119; Keith Surber of O”Fallon was 4th at 130 and Ben Brooks of Oak Park was 6th at 189.
10. Best Weekly has ranked the wrestlers and the teams - I repeat the top 10 teams: Class AAA l. Minooka, 2. Plainfield Central, 3. Providence, 4. Lockport, 5. Edwardsville, 6. Mt. Carmel, 7. Oak Park, 8. Neuqua Valley, 9. Grant, 10. Glenbard North. Class AA: 1. Montini, 2. Crystal Lake Central, 3. Marmion 4. Yorkville 5. Troy-Triad 6. Champaign Central, 7. Springfield 8. Lemont 9. Burlington Central 10. Mahomet-Seymour. Class A: 1. Wilmington 2. Petersburg-Porta 3. Sterling Newman 4. Camp Point Central 5. Reed-Custer 6. Stillman Valley 7. Harvard 8. Gibson City 9. Prairie Central 10. Benton. Some of these schools are in the State Finals in football, so their results will be difficult to assess for a couple of weeks.
11. Don’t forget the Midlands on the 29th and 30th - Goning to be better than ever.
12. Tournaments this weekend will include Conant, Barrington and Wheaton South in the North.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
An act of justice closes sthe book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are the portals of discovery.
True power is knowing that you can, but yoiu don’t.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. Ed
