Branda is steady. She is very competitive and most of her match losses have been close ones against No. 1 seeds.

These (close losses) are getting too commonplace.

It essentially would shut the county down. We would no longer be competitive.

We were pulling out the close ones.

We believe there are no serious competitive concerns that need to be addressed that we have not already evaluated.

We're a lot alike in that we've let a lot of close ones get away.