Passionate crowd

I was at Loganville tonight. It was Senior night so I guess they needed a senior age referee. There were two other experienced officials there, so I took the JV mat. Loganville, Winder-Barrow, Salem, and Tucker were in attendance. After about 22 matches I was done. There were two Varsity duals left, and the other officials left them for me. The first dual had two of the visiting teams competing against each other, and yet there was some exuberant crowd noise. It made the dual much more interesting. In the second dual it was the home team against one of the visiting teams. The crowd was even better. It was a very competitive dual with plenty of passion from both the crowd, and the wrestlers. There were a couple of times when I should have possibly called unsportsmanlike on a couple of wrestlers, but I warned them on this occasion. There were several potentially dangerous situations that became illegal due to the wrestlers not stopping on my whistle, or when I was pulling them apart to protect the wrestler in danger. Even though some of the wrestlers had some hard feelings after their matches, at the end good sportsmanship was expressed by all.


It was fun to have a passionate crowd with no need to have any ejections, and not feeling the need to be escorted out of the building.

This Saturday I will be between some very demonstrative coaches as the head official. I am looking forward to the challenge. I will be at Oconee County High School.