Mark Mears
Mark Mears
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.
believe capable far fighting good matches team winning
That's what I told the team after the team tournament. We're far from finished. We have enough good individuals that are capable of getting back to Hershey, winning matches and placing. I believe it's going to be us and Reynolds fighting it out again.
goal titles win winning
Our goal is to win section, WPIAL, and PIAA titles this year. Winning a PIAA title is the only goal we haven't attained.
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.
advance finals hope kids last section year
We had 12 kids advance to the section finals last year. Our hope this year is to have at least 11 or 12 make it to the finals.
allen five guys nine outside
We started off a little slow, but I thought the guys wrestled well. Outside of Allen (Park, at 119), everyone's still in it. We've got nine guys still wrestling, and five in the semis.
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.
coming excellent forward good looking northern team weekend
We're looking forward to the competition. We're coming off two good weekend tournaments and this will be a good test. The team is looking forward to the tournament. Reynolds, Greenville and Northern Lehigh have excellent squads.
forward healthier looking
We're healthier now than we've been all season. So, we're looking forward to the matches.
encourage ready stay
I tell them to be ready for anything. I encourage them to stay focused.
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.
goal guess means meet might win
Our goal is to win the WPIAL and PIAA titles. I guess that means if we want to win a title, we might have to meet Reynolds at 10 a.m. on Feb. 11.
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.