Daniel and Cody (Crawford) have been big additions to our program (at 103 and 112 pounds) this year. |
He comes back and gets a pin, and that's (Matthews') first varsity match. I certainly didn't expect him to go out there and get a pin. |
I asked the ref if he (Andrew) had the leg hooked or not. He (the ref) said that he didn't so I said, OK, because if you get the leg hooked, you should get the takedown. |
It was a tournament where if you won your first match, you moved forward. If you lost your first match, you moved back and the best you could finish was fifth. |
It's been a great year. Dual meet-wise, we're 14-7, and really the only full lineup we've had was in the first meet of the year (against STC North). |
Our goal is to wrestle tough and try to earn some respect. |
The guys we have wrestled hard all year and have really given the extra effort and looked to go for pins because we've been down points. |
The nice thing is that they'll have a bye next week (in the first round) so they'll get to see who they will wrestle. They'll get to a little scouting, which is always nice. Plus, it's one less match you have to wrestle. |
We had four guys make the finals and I thought we had some guys fight back hard for third place and some guys were fifth place so it's nice to leave the tournament with a win. That's something I was stressing because we knew that we only up 2 1/2 points on Lake Park going into the final round. We needed to get some wins and we did that. |
We only had 10 guys wrestling and six of them made it to the finals. That's pretty good. |
We only had nine guys entered and we got six through. Of course, it would have been nice to have gotten everybody through, but that's not bad odds. |