The Southwestern Conference was extremely good this year, and I think we proved just how good it was this weekend. |
They shot a great. I hope this proves to our guys that every shot counts. You have to grind it out on every shot. |
This was not an easy test. I played out there today and the course was wet and playing long. If you got off the fairway you had some tough times. |
We are very, very fortunate. Belleville East and O'Fallon are good teams. We lucked out and are SWC champions. |
We bowled the way I knew we could in the final round. They came out firing and had some fun. |
We can do it. We've done it before. I wish the kids would quit writing this script for me. I'm not as young as these guys, this pressure is not good for me. But if we can come back again, I'll take it. |
We did what we wanted to do -- we qualified. It was ugly, but we got it done and go on to another day. |
We got off to a great start and really gave ourselves a good chance. Then we just kept shooting 1,000 every game. Our low game was 1,001 and we shot 1,005 in the last game of the day. That's what we have to do, we have to be consistent and when we do that, we're pretty good. |
We had a great final day last year, and just about won it again. So losing by 14 pins kind of left a bad taste in our mouths, coming so close and not getting there. |
We had two really good scores. Brant's 71 and Carson's 72, that's really what won it for us. It was kind of shaky there on getting our third and fourth scores. When it comes to tournaments, I like four scores in the 70s. So that's something we have to address. |
We just wanted to qualify for state, winning the sectional was just a bonus. We had a real good team effort and came away with a tight win. |
What I like is the consistency. At the Southwestern Conference Tournament, we only had two scores in the 70s. Today we had five. |
You can't win a state title on Friday. We are taking it one step at a time and just trying to get into the top 12 teams and come back Saturday and have a shot. One step at a time. |