The WPIAL runner-up actually has an easier road to the PIAA title match. |
They wrestled well. Donnie and Lee have been here so many times, and I think that has a lot of bearing on it. |
This time we'll have Lee and Joe in the lineup. That's four WPIAL titles that weren't in the lineup last time. I think we're as good as any team in Pennsylvania. |
To be honest with you, we were hoping to have nine to the semifinals. I thought they all wrestled good. Some of the guys just didn't finish. |
We don't care who we wrestle. This is a together squad and I told them to relax and have fun. They've worked hard to put themselves in this position. |
We had 12 kids advance to the section finals last year. Our hope this year is to have at least 11 or 12 make it to the finals. |
We started off a little slow, but I thought the guys wrestled well. Outside of Allen (Park, at 119), everyone's still in it. We've got nine guys still wrestling, and five in the semis. |
We went at it with a business-type attitude. We had a great week of practice and the wrestlers knew what they had to do. We want to be state champions and the kids know the road ahead of us. |
We're healthier now than we've been all season. So, we're looking forward to the matches. |
We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season. |
We're looking forward to the competition. We're coming off two good weekend tournaments and this will be a good test. The team is looking forward to the tournament. Reynolds, Greenville and Northern Lehigh have excellent squads. |
We're really happy right now. We all geared toward peaking this weekend, and we did. We were a little slow (Friday), but today, everybody was firing on all cylinders. |
We're very deep and we have a winner at every weight, so we just have to patiently let the match evolve and we're eventually going to find our points. |
Winning the WPIAL title gives us a break until Friday. We have kids limping around and others who have shoulders and ankles taped. We need the five-day break to heal and drill. |
With those two out of the lineup, and mentally the team was deflated and knew it would be tough to win. But we learned a little more about Reynolds. We didn't duck anybody. We put our good wrestlers against theirs to see what happened. |