It was every bit of those 40 mile-per-hour winds and it was hot. The heat had begun to take its toll against Roosevelt.

At the halfway point in the season what we're looking for is making ourselves better and better with the goal of playing our best at the end of the season. And we met that part of the goal, today. The girls are progressing. I thought we played well.

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Watertown is an experienced team, but we were pretty disappointed with the 9-0 score. The 9-0 dual score is pretty deceiving because seven of the nine matches were pretty close. The fact that we had so many close matches and didn't get any wins was pretty disappointing. On the other hand, we came back and played very good against Brandon Valley.

Ashley had two really big wins to close out the tournament strong. Her play was definitely the highlight of the state tournament for us. In her first match, she was actually behind 2-5 and she came back to win. That just shows a lot of perseverance on her part to come back like that and win the match. Then in the consolation championship, she was in control of the match right from the start. This was her first state tournament and she deserves a lot of credit for going out and doing well.

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