A SUNDAY EDITION?

     I, the Kornerman, don't know. I guess I'm perplexed. This world of ours seems to be changing so rapidly. Everything seems so different.

     I was thinking back. Twenty-five years ago this very Sunday, I and co-workers at the Iowa High School Athletic Association would be so busy. Wrapping up yesterday's State Swim Meet and in the midst of preparation for this weeks State Wrestling Tournament.

     Instead, here I am, for the first time in 11 years of its blog existence, working a SUNDAY Korner and a Valentine's Day edition at that.WHY?

     Yesterday (Saturday) there were two big events that some of our BHS student athletes were involved in. Swimmers were completing a long, pandemic-plagued campaign and the wrestlers were continuing work in an effort to earn a berth in the state meet. 

      Don't know about you but I was very interested. How did our swimmers do and did any of our wrestlers qualify for the state meet?

      None of my questions were answered in the Sunday morning Register and couldn't find anything on the radio. Maybe in the Monday paper. Oh, that's right. We don't have one. Maybe on Thursday but that's a long ways off. 

      O.K. Details may be short and the Korner audience could always be better but as I've said to myself, "If not me, who?" So, here we go.

      In the State Swim Meet at Linn-Mar, Marion High School, a Toreador relay team and two individuals performed well.

      In the 200 medley relay, it was Aidan Kraft, Ben Patterson, D.J. Thompson and Ike Seeman with a time of 1:43.36 and 20th place.

      Patterson was 20th in the 200 individual medley in 2:03.48 and Thompson was 29th in the 100-butterfly in 54.68.

      State competition is always tough but they competed and did their best as shown by the fact they performed better than their seed time. CONGRATULATIONS.

      It appears there will be three Toreador wrestlers in the state meet starting Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

      In the District meet at Marshalltown, Taner Harvey won the 195 pound title; Ty Solverson was runnerup at 120 and Jayden Angle was second at 182. Ty and Jayden both won wrestlebacks after losing championship bouts. CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM AND GOOD LUCK THIS WEEK.

     In other District meet action, non-state qualifiers Kyle Sharp was fifth at 138; McGuire Bryant sixth at 220 and Hector Garcia fourth at 285. 

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