Gary L. Baumgartner
3811 Fisher Avenue
Middletown, Ohio 45042-2821

Phone: 513-424-6201 or Fax: 513-424-6768

E-mail: baumg@erinet.com

 

December 6, 2000

 

Coach:

Welcome to the 2001 Catholic Invitational Tournament hosted by Newark Catholic High School. With its rich tradition, the 40th Annual CIT will be another outstanding one. The 30 teams in the tournament this year sent 59 wrestlers to the State Tournament last year, and had 25 state place winners.

Thirty one of the qualifiers return, led by three State Champions:

• Jason Barnett-Col. DeSales, 12, (00:II-130-1st, 99:II-125-2nd & 98:II-119-5th), C.P. Schlatter-Col. DeSales, 10, (00:II-119-1st), and Nick Lukens-Moeller, 12, (00:I-171-1st)

Other top returnees include three second place:

• Joe Zinkin-Cincinnati Moeller,12, (00:I-140-2nd, 99:I-130-4th), Jeff Clemens-Dayton Carroll ,12, (00:I-171-2nd , 99:I-160-5th), and Ryan Hurley-Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary, 10, (00:II-135-2nd)

One third place:

• Ricky Randazzo-Padua Franciscan, 12, (00:II-103-3rd)

Three fourth place:

• Mike Baria-Moeller, 10, (00:I-135-4th), Grant Savelli-Lake Catholic, 12, (00:II-160-4th), and Justin Scholes-Lake Catholic, 12, (00:II-171-4th)

Five fifth place:

• Ryan Derr-Cardinal Stritch, 12, (00:III-103-5th, 99:III-103-6th), Brian Zinkin-Moeller, 12, (00:I-130-5th), David Blanks-Moeller, 12, (00:I-152-5th), Nick Terbay-Dayton Carroll, 11, (00:I-140-5th), Jason Lackmeyer-Purcel Marian, 12, (00:II-215-5th)

Two sixth pace:

• Anthony Constantino-Lake Catholic, 10, (00:II-112-6th) and Roger Miller-CJ, 12, (00:II-75-6th)

The tournament committee at Newark Catholic has been looking forward to hosting the CIT. Rick Carpenter, the Tournament Director and I are working together to coordinate all facets of this tournament. Hopefully, your team and fans already have reservations set. The Ramada Inn and the Place off the Square are the official CIT hotels and will be weigh-in sites.

Note: There are a couple of corrections to the materials you received in November: The phone number for The Place off the Square is 740-322-6516 and the enclosed pages have been updated and are now current. Please replace the earlier copies with those included in this mailing.

Contact Rick at 740-344-2839, if there are any questions about logistics, facilities, etc. in Newark. Contact me if there are any questions about rosters or seeding.

 

 

 

Enclosed are the Roster and Seed Nomination Form, a tournament schedule, a list of teams and other information, a sheet explaining seeding and re-draw procedure, and an Authorization to Participate form for communicable disease. You may either mail, fax, or if you prefer e-mail your Roster and Seed information to me. The enclosed Authorization to Participate form is for your convenience; feel free to copy it and bring it with you to the weigh-in if you have a wrestler who may be questionable.

We will seed up to 8 wrestlers per weight class using a Seeding Criteria which includes only State, District, and CIT places along with the wrestler's current 2000-2001 record. Please remember that the district place must be a State Qualifier. The criteria will be used to determine all seeds, with voting necessary only to break ties. Brackets will be drawn during the seed meeting and printed for distribution after the dinner, however none will be official until after weigh-ins are completed on Saturday. Adjustments will be made in accordance with the outlined procedure, if necessary.

Please type or print your complete roster and list the Head Coach and phone number. Fill in the criteria number and complete the appropriate seeding information only for the wrestlers that you are nominating for a seed. You may make changes and corrections to your roster on Friday evening, but will not be permitted to make additions to the seed nomination list. The criteria for seeding are listed on both the seeding sheet and the information sheet. Please read it carefully!

Mail or fax the Roster and Seed Nomination Form or e-mail the data by 6:00 PM on Tuesday, January 9, 2001. There will be no additional seed nominations after this deadline!

Please be prompt in returning your seeding information to me and in arriving Friday evening. If you will be late to the seed meeting, please call Newark Catholic High School at 740-344-3102 with any last minute changes.

Please call me at 513-424-6201 or send e-mail to me at baumg@erinet.com, if there are any other questions. Good luck this season! See you on January 12th!

Yours in wrestling,

 

 

Gary Baumgartner