Mark Mears
Mark Mears
against duck good knew learned mentally scholars-and-scholarship team theirs tough wrestlers
With those two out of the lineup, and mentally the team was deflated and knew it would be tough to win. But we learned a little more about Reynolds. We didn't duck anybody. We put our good wrestlers against theirs to see what happened.
charming goal hoping state third time title winning
We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.
care fun hard relax squad themselves together worked
We don't care who we wrestle. This is a together squad and I told them to relax and have fun. They've worked hard to put themselves in this position.
everybody firing geared happy slow toward
We're really happy right now. We all geared toward peaking this weekend, and we did. We were a little slow (Friday), but today, everybody was firing on all cylinders.
battle came dominant escapes four gave impressed kids night points rested
I was most impressed with how dominant we were. My kids gave up only four points all night and two came on escapes where we let them up. We're battle tested, rested and healthy.
ankles break gives heal kids others shoulders title until winning
Winning the WPIAL title gives us a break until Friday. We have kids limping around and others who have shoulders and ankles taped. We need the five-day break to heal and drill.
dynasty england four jokes team three won
The team jokes that we're a dynasty because they say if the New England Patriots won three out of four and they're a dynasty, then so are we.
believe bounce guys jeff
I really thought Jeff should've won. You've got to believe you're going to win. But I think all of our guys will bounce back.
competition great pounds proud wrestlers
I'm satisfied. This is great competition, and we had a lot of wrestlers do well. I'm really proud of Stefan. He's 182 pounds and he did a great job.
easier road title
The WPIAL runner-up actually has an easier road to the PIAA title match.
bearing lee
They wrestled well. Donnie and Lee have been here so many times, and I think that has a lot of bearing on it.
extra gave job panicked phenomenal shame
It's a shame it happened. It was out of frustration more than anything. Fortunately, no one panicked after we gave up those extra points. And Donnie did a phenomenal job to get it back.
feet hurting
You can see it's hurting him on his feet a little bit.