I thought Morris had a heck of a tournament. He beat some good kids to win this thing and looked really good.
He was a non-seeded regional kid and makes it all the way to the third-place match. He's a perfect example of how these kids have battled this year.
Daryl had a real tough road today. But he beat a tough kid from Mascoutah and came back and wrestled real well in the next match.
It was a good effort. I thought we got banged around a little bit at some classes in the early rounds, but kids rebounded well and had good tournaments.
We had a really good day today. The 10 kids that we had advance came in and really banged. It was a team effort. We feel real good about it. The kids are sore and banged up, but they competed real hard.
The kids all wrestled hard all day long. We had some tough matches that we won, some we lost and some bad breaks along the way. But I'm proud of what we did up here today and tomorrow we still have a shot at some medals.
It's real nice to see Morris get through. He's had some ups and downs this season. He's a determined kid and it showed with that last win.
A.J. wrestled really well against a kid who placed in the state. It was a good win for him.
We're banged up after the individual state tournament.. But these kids have been resilient all year long and we've battled through a lot this season.
The kids really competed their tail ends off. Our goal was to bring home some hardware, and that's what we did. We came up a little short of winning it, but that doesn't take anything away from what these kids have accomplished this season.
The kid Sean wrestled, I think is ranked third or fourth in Missouri, so he's a quality wrestler. Sometimes you have to win the close ones, and Sean did that tonight.
I had the head referee come over after the match and say the wrong call was made, but it didn't do Matt any good. Our kid has his hand raised as the winner and it's taken away from him. That's wrong. It's tough to win a match in overtime when that happens.
We knew we would have tough some matches in the finals. But I thought that the kids wrestled hard. Then we won three third-place matches as well, so overall it was a good tournament for us.
We knew we were going to have a tough time in the championships. Not to say we were underdogs, but we knew we were up against some kids who had beaten us before. I thought all our guys wrestled well in those matches.
Morris is the same way. He got a kid that finished very high in the state and had a great season and he stepped up .