Norton will host its 49th Annual Wrestling Tournament, the J.R. Durham Invitational, this Saturday, January 11 in the NCHS Stull Gymnasium.

Schools participating this year are: Atwood-Rawlins County, Beloit, Cimarron, Cozad, Hays-TMP, Hoxie, Garden City, McCook, Norton, Oakley, Scott City, Smith Center, Tribune-Greeley County and Ulysses.

Wrestling is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Tournament info will be available using Trackwrestling.

Also, the participating schools are invited to bring their JV wrestlers and JV matches will be wrestled in the NJHS Gym beginning as close to 9:30 a.m. as possible.

On Friday night Norton and Ulysses will dual beginning at 6:00 p.m.

The weather looks promising, so join us for a full day of wrestling!

49th annual.....that's awesome!

We sometimes get into a debate around here whether or not the year it was snowed out (1992-93) should be counted! so, this year is the 49th year it is scheduled to be held, but the 48th year it will have been wrestled (weather looks good this weekend!).

In January and February, 1993 we had significant snow on a weekly basis. We tried to get the tournament in in '93; started moving snow on Friday evening, but as fast as we pushed it, the wind filled it back in. We called off the snow removal efforts about 9:30 p.m. and called off the tournament. By daylight on Saturday we had 12+ inches. . . and it was still snowing; it quit snowing in the early morning. . .but then the wind REALLY picked up!!! I went up to the school to put things away and got stuck going into the parking lot in my little 2WD Dodge D-50 pick-up. It was a snow storm, truly.

Norton Community High School has been video streaming BlueJay sports this year, Football, Volleyball, Basketball and Wrestling, we have been slowly getting the word out with our local supporters and now I think it is time to announce it to some of the outside supporters- we have been using highschoolcube.com you can go to the sight and see all the events we have broadcast this year they have been archived on this sight.
With that all said Saturday -Jan 11th -The J.R. Durham wrestling tournament will be streaming most of the tournament and for the entire finals. With the streaming will be audio from kqnk radio personnel.
To find us go to: http://www.highschoolcube.com then where it says WATCH or search school, put in Norton High School and hit the event being broadcasted. Hope you enjoy the streaming- Also you can go to www.kqnk.com for audio streaming.