It wasn't our best performance. We lost the other two (championship) matches to kids we had beaten before, and that's not something you like to see at this time of the year. Hopefully we can rebound from that.
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JEFF GAIER Our big goal is the NCAA championship, and if we're playing our best hockey at the end of the year, ... JEFF LIKENS It was good to see them rebound from Tomahawk. It was a good effort and hopefully we can continue (t... JOE BRENNAN It (the final result) can be attributed to fatigue. We're only two weeks into preseason. It's necess... COBI JONES Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN I knew it was going to be tough getting another victory against them. We need some matches like we h... BOB GREENLY You know, we still haven't seen our best basketball. Hopefully, we're at the time of year where the ... KYLE PENNEY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... This is probably the best offensive rebounding team we'll face all year. The mark of a good team is ... ED SWANSON It had not been the first time that we had said something like this to each other. It was not like g... JAYSON JAMES You look at four wins and that's a great way to start. Even in the two matches we lost the kids were... DOUG SHORT They had every loose ball, every rebound. We had a lot of panic. Hopefully, this is the kind of situ... CHRIS GIBSON Last year we made the playoffs, but this year thats not enough. We want to at least get to the secon... COLLEEN KENNEDY We have all the sandbags that we had before. Hopefully they're not going to divert water down our st... BILL HOWARD It was a good learning experience since we have several players who have never played before. They h... DOUG ELLIS I think the program is back. We had all but two kids back from last year's playoff team and we have ... JOE CROCCO We haven't had any steam all year. That was our best performance by far all season. All year long we... RICH ANDERSON We have the next couple of weeks to work on some things before the conference tournament. We will be... KRISSY HALL I was disappointed with our performance in several matches. We can do better. It could be we just ha... DON ROY When we play other teams that have year-round facilities, you can see the level that they are at com... LARRY MACDONALD What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Obviously it's great anytime you can win a conference championship, but we have to put it in the per... JOEY SCRIVANO It's one of those situations where it really impressed me. We had two people that nearly had lost th... CMDR. LEE VANCE I thought our kids played well. To play a team like this (Benton Central) which has lost only one ga... FLAVA SIRK We had seven seniors, including five who were four-year players, and had lost only two key skaters f... PAUL LETOURNEAU We lost to them last time and had to play Neillsville and went and beat them and hadn't lost since. ... DAVE MACARTHUR I really thought we wrestled the best we have this season as a team. We really came out and battled ... BRAD PENRITH The 1993 team was the best we've had here. That year, we lost in 11 innings in Game 7 (of the Americ... LARRY SCHMITTOU I really thought our match was like the championship because I believe we would have beaten Memphis.... JOE LEHMANN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We talked to the kids before this week started that we wanted to end the season playing good basketb... TIM TRANTHAM Hopefully we can do something like we did the last time where we tried to minimize the success the o... MIKE ADRAS We had a really good day. We beat two AAA teams and just lost to Grundy, who is ranked second in the... DON SHULER That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Hopefully we'll get a lot of community support for this. We had a great time with the state tourname... JASON PETERSON You don't play to win the division, you play to win championship rings, ... How many division titles... ALBERT PUJOLS You don't play to win the division, you play to win championship rings. How many division titles doe... ALBERT PUJOLS Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good ... JACK SCHWEERS Those two kids have a lot of respect for each other, and you can see why. They know they're not goin... DON PARSLEY There at the end when we had to foul, boy it didn't seem like a rebound could come our way. We block... JASON WALLACE Last year I had them play doubles at tournaments, (and during conference matches) I put them at one ... DEBBIE ASHENBRENNER Our kids played with 150 percent of their heart. They never gave up and their want to win was there.... HUGH ROBERTS I just told the team that if we were going to be a championship team, we had to deal with adversity.... MICHAEL CENTER We lost some tough matches in the first round. We lost a lot of close matches but we won some close ... KIRBY MOSES We had some guys score points that are new to the varsity lineup this year. When you can lose what w... DAVE LIPE Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif... REBECCA GOLDSTEIN We had hoped to win it, but we rebounded from some tough matches and had three kids on the podium. BILL ROYER I hope we can exceed what we did last year. Before the season our goal was to win the national champ... CHRIS EDWARDS Hopefully, we come to play and we can defend our championship. Our team doesn't want it to end here. ESHAUNTE JONES We had what, four interceptions? We lost two fumbles. That's six turnovers against a team that had j... GERALD TEMPLES Anytime you can make the playoffs in this district, you have to count it as a good year. It really h... DAVID PLUNK We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO We had that game won after the first half. I told these kids that if we can hold them to a 0-0 tie a... DUANE DESPAIN We've lost seven of our last eight matches. The only team that we have beaten is Western Samoa. It's... GARETH DAVIES Personally, it hurt when you tell a player his dream has been stopped for a while, but we had to do ... LOVIE SMITH Though we lost the meet, I could not be more pleased with the performance of these kids. They were a... JENNY BORKOWSKI We've always had it in our minds that in five years we had to be champions, ... Of course, we would ... ANTONIO CUE We had about 14 new players come out this year. We were looking to see what holes we could fill and ... GREG TUCKER A kid who really came through big-time for us was Phil Metz. It took until the first of January for ... FRANK MUCHA I think that was our best match yet this season. Other than game two, we played a complete match. Th... BETH LAUNIERE We had our best two days of practice of the year on Saturday and Monday. We knew the key to this gam... DREW YOUNG I'm so proud of my kids. We had a lot of ups and downs but we ended up playing our best basketball a... KYLE CERFOGLIO We had our worst game of the year. I don't know if it was rust from not playing since last Friday or... JEFF THORNE I'm thankful God has given us the technology where we can see each other through Skype on the co... ALBERT PUJOLS We havent broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), thats not what she wanted. We opted not to... BETH PAYNE I really hate that word, 'competition.' I don't see it that way. Me and Ryan, we can push each other... HUMBERTO COTA If we can win our last five matches we'll win the championship. DAVID JAROLIM It means nothing unless we get deep into the playoffs and hopefully go all the way. We've had good y... JAKE PLUMMER Our girls all had a fantastic meet. We stuck everything. It was our best performance this year. Ever... KARI RIENDEAU We will re-evaluate this on Sunday and see where this dispute has got to and hopefully at that time ... JIM SINCLAIR We had seen them before and knew we were going to have our hands full. I'm disappointed in not winni... BILLY BAKER Hopefully everyone has the same mindset. Hopefully we can get this thing turned around. We're in the... GARY WALKER The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN We do have other kids that can play. Katie Snead had a huge rebound and basket in overtime late in t... JEFF BRENNING We are looking to keep our errors to a minimum this year. We lost to Lone Peak by one run because we... LESLIE JONES I thought we had a lackluster performance. I kind of thought we might be flat tonight after playing ... GUY GREENING Hopefully this is something you can learn from. We made some mistakes defensively today that we have... BILL KEEFER You always want to get in a tournament to see where your kids are at. Most of our kids haven?t playe... LANCE FISHER Mark your calendar. Like every year at this time, we all get together and come down and we have a go... KATHY MORGAN We didn't represent ourselves very well at all. We didn't wrestle badly, we just didn't do as well a... JOE GORDILLO We did fairly well. Everybody won two matches except for one guy. That's usually one of our goals. I... MARK PETERSON The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON After our slow start this year, we had a meeting with the kids and told them that we had to get bett... GENE BARBER It came down to the third place match at number three doubles, and the championship matches at numbe... DAVE LIPE Naturally we are concerned about the suggestion we lost more kids than we thought. We are going to w... LEKAN OGUNTOYINBO It's not a bad season. We surprised a lot of people. We had some kids step up. Any time you can do t... DANA BRUTON Like all companies, we are closely monitoring the economy, but what we see at this time indicates we... IVAN SEIDENBERG Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS When we get to the district, our kids tend to crank it up a notch and get the job done. Our goal is ... ROGER BRANHAM We missed a lot of easy shots but we played tough on defense and got the ball back. And this was pro... CONNIE WEST
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