{"id":2014,"date":"2006-02-19T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w2014\/"},"modified":"2006-02-19T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T16:33:09","slug":"1-man-wrestling-team-earns-medal-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w2014\/1-man-wrestling-team-earns-medal-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"1-Man Wrestling Team Earns Medal in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"dateline\">LAKELAND, Fla.<\/span><span class=\"dateline-separator\">  &#8211; <\/span><\/strong>Trey Toms, Moore Haven High School&#8217;s one-man wrestling team,  finished sixth at 135 pounds to earn a medal in Class 1A at the state wrestling  tournament Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Toms won his first two matches, then lost the next three.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s real hard to get here, let alone place, so he did well, &#8220;said his coach  and mother, Kim Toms.<\/p>\n<p>The Toms family started a wrestling team at Moore Haven because Trey wanted  to pursue the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Because he&#8217;s the Terriers&#8217; first wrestler, Trey is also the first to place at  state. But the senior said he was disappointed with his showing &#8211; especially a  defeat in the semifinals against Osvaldo Friger of Archbishop Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>Trey lost twice more after that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to say it, but I was so disappointed losing the semifinal match, I  didn&#8217;t even care anymore, &#8220;Trey said. &#8220;I almost had him pinned in the first few  seconds. I tried the hardest I&#8217;ve ever tried. I just wasn&#8217;t good enough to beat  him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toms hopes to continue his wrestling career in college, perhaps as a walk-on  at Penn State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully I&#8217;ll get to go collegiate and show people what I&#8217;m made of, &#8220;he  said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKELAND, Fla. &#8211; Trey Toms, Moore Haven High School&#8217;s one-man wrestling team, finished sixth at 135 pounds to earn a medal in Class 1A at the state wrestling tournament Saturday. Toms won his first two matches, then lost the next three. &#8220;It&#8217;s real hard to get here, let alone place, so he did well, &#8220;said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-wu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}