HoosierAuthority.com Video Coordinator Eric Eaton attended the Broncho Holiday Duals Dec. 28-29 at Lafayette Jefferson’s Crawley Center. Westfield won the 10-team, round-robin competition, but the Shamrocks’ victory wasn’t the only headline of the event.
New Castle coach Rex Peckinpaugh, the state’s all-time coaching leader in wrestling victories, recorded his 700th career win against Kankakee Valley during Day 1of the event. Peckinpaugh, who began coaching wrestling 32 years ago when current Lafayette Jeff coach Tom Miller helped get him a job as a middle school coach, has spent the last 27 years at New Castle. His ties to the New Castle wrestling program though go back even further as he wrestled for the Trojans in the early ’70s.
Andrew Howe, the state’s top-ranked wrestler at 160 pounds, also competed at the Broncho Holiday Duals. The Hanover Central senior, who won a state championship last season at 152, has signed to wrestle collegiately at the University of Wisconsin.
Click here to watch all of our video coverage from the Broncho Holiday Duals. Featured in the videos are Peckinpaugh talking about his milestone victory, Howe wrestling against Westfield’s R.V. Peter, and Westfield’s seventh-ranked heavyweight Josh Hale taking on Lafayette Jeff’s Brandon McCann.
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