(Holmes) was supposed to be the best in the state last year, and Josh got the best of him. He is going to be gunning for Josh this year. |
Cutting weight for him was pretty big, because there is not a lot of weight on him. It wasn't something that happened overnight. It was a gradual thing. |
I can't say enough about this group. They're a special group, and most of them will be back next season. |
I didn't get much of a look, because I was so frustrated at what was going on over here. |
I told them to get it in gear. Even in the end they looked sluggish. |
I was a little worried at how we started. That is usually always ours, but Chris Johnson did a great job of getting an early takedown. |
I'd say Dublin is maybe the favorite. They're pretty good. They were state runners-up last year and won the year before. |
If you don't wrestle a weight class, those are points you're giving away. This year, they'll start at 130 (class), and wrap around. They used to start at 103, but they changed the rule a couple of years ago to add excitement. |
In all three of them, the style is pretty much the same. But Josh is more laid-back, and you have to motivate him. Blaine, you really have to coax, but that's just maturity with him. But take those two out of the lineup, and it puts a big dent in us. |
It's always been a one-point match (between those two). We've always won, but it's been close. |
One match could swing one way or another, you just never know until you get out there. |
We came out sluggish. I don't know why. It might have been because we had a long time between weigh-in and when we were supposed to wrestle. |
We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final. |
West Laurens has never been back-to-back in anything. State titles have been hard to come by. There were three in wrestling, two in basketball and one in softball. |