Two High Schools Girls Wrestle Each Other In Boys Tournament!

Updated Friday, December 12 at 6:00 AM

Wrestling tourney to offer Hall County history
By Jeff Hart

FLOWERY BRANCH - History will be made Saturday at Flowery Branch High School.

For the first time ever in Hall County, two female wrestlers will square off in a high school sanctioned event when the Falcons' Rashona Colbert and Johnson's DeAnn Hudson tangle in the 103-pound weight class in the Flowery Branch Duals.

The round-robin, six-team tournament actually begins Friday but the two schools are not scheduled to wrestle until the fifth round Saturday.

The team with the best record after the five matches will be crowned champion and then the individual wrestlers will be seeded according to tournament match records in the individual weight-class tournament.

Along with the Falcons and Knights, Class AAAAA Meadowcreek, Class AAAA Cedar Shoals, West Hall and a collection of wrestlers from every team to fill a spot vacated when several teams backed out will participate.

Johnson and Flowery Branch met last week in a dual match but Hudson was still recovering from an appendectomy and having a cyst removed from her ovaries and was not able to suit up. She returned over the weekend and went 1-1 in two matches.

Both Johnson coach Garry Glenn and Falcons coach Shane Lancaster are anxious to see history. And then move on.

"It's interesting in that I don't think it's ever been done in Hall County," Glenn said. "Both the girls just want to be treated the same as the other guys on their teams so I think they're probably ready to get this out of the way, so to speak. But it should be something to watch."

"It will be the first time Rashona has wrestled another girl so I think she's interested to see how it goes," Lancaster said.

According to both coaches, the tournament itself is wide open.

The Falcons nipped Johnson in their dual match last week having to go to six tiebreakers to decide it. West Hall has a solid team and Cedar Shoals is always a top contender in Class AAAA. Meadowcreek may be a little down, Lancaster said, but is still good.

"This should be a very exciting tournament. I don't think there's clear-cut favorite. Anyone could win this," Lancaster said.