Chad Hitchen
Chad Hitchen
against both factors fatigue flip match tough
Fatigue and the flip were both factors because we had a tough match against Mahnomen.
nicely tonight
Things started off nicely tonight with Anthony getting that pin.
ended four key lost matches winning
We ended up winning all four of those key matches and it would have been a different story if we lost those but we steam-rolled them.
care ended night pin took
The night started with a pin and ended with a pin and we took care of things in the middle.
bad experience force happy kid mistakes senior smart
That kid was a smart wrestler. He's a senior with experience but all in all we're happy with the way Javier wrestled. He didn't make any mistakes or force any bad moves.
lead watch
It's kind of disappointing when you get a lead like that and watch it disintegrate, but that's kind of been the story of our whole year.
losing tough
We started off by losing a tough one at 103 and we rebounded well with Javier and Mariano (Portillo) having big wins.
handle himself prove senior
He's a senior and he has to prove to himself that he can handle it.
balance coach hard momentum quickness stop tough wrestling
He was wrestling really tough on the day and you can't coach balance and quickness and Javier has both. And once they get the momentum going it's hard to stop that youth.
coaches cringe eighth senior time
Any time you see an eighth grader take it to a senior like that it always makes the other coaches cringe and it makes me smile.
forward hard lose nice players replace seniors side time top
Every time you lose seniors it's always hard to replace them but the nice side of this is that we had many players in the top four... now we have to look forward to our underclassmen.
kids proved region
He's proved to me and proved to other kids in the region that he should be a one or two seed.