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We had a lot of close matches over the weekend that didn't go our way. So it's nice to get back on track this week.

We had five guys in championship matches and that's the most we've ever had. You have to be happy with that.

We had to take a gamble and make a decision to use three forwards. We believed in it and it's a very important away win for us. But we gave two cheap goals away. That was a big disappointment for me because we only conceded three goals in seven matches before that.

We have a lot of matches coming up, consecutively. It kind of brings you down a little bit, but when you're winning matches, it makes you work that much harder in the room, and you want it that much more.

We have a lot of juniors and seniors back who have gained experience. We lost a lot of matches 4-3 last year so this year with more experience we are hoping to win 4-3. Our senior experience should pay off.

We've got some tough matches, but we like to turn that around and say no one really wants to wrestle a Rapids kid in the first round of the tournament. To be champion you have to beat everyone. It's just too bad that some championship caliber matches will be held on Thursday night.

We've made many great matches. In fact, one of our matches is taking a trip to England this spring. They don't all turn out that way, but you never know.

We have to make sure we take care of our matches against them here on our home court. It's as good as an EIVA weekend as we can get.

We have to keep our run going as if we win all four remaining matches I'm confident we will be playing in Europe again.

We're very proud of Kellie and excited for her. It's very deserved. She had an excellent weekend and has been playing well all year. She won some important matches and hopefully she will continue doing that for us the rest of the way.

With the talent I've been around, and I've been around a lot of talent, this team matches up very favorably with the talent that I've been around.

We could have given them more of a run for their money, but they're a very strong team and could well go on to win the cup, ... I honestly believe we are closing the gap on the top teams in Europe at club and international levels, but on this occasion the Frankfurt players' greater experience of big matches in big competitions probably gave them the edge.

We know that this weekend is going to be a tough one for us. Last year we played them twice and the difference between the two teams in two matches was one goal. Eastern Washington is a hard-working, energetic team that is coming off a great result with BYU so there spirits are going to be high. They'll attempt to pressure us and really look to counter-attack on our play,

We have won three matches on the bounce, whilst Gloucester are undefeated this season and are the form side in England at the moment. Add the England aspect with players fighting for their places, and the Mike Tindall factor and the scene is set for what promises to be a very good game.

We have won 13 out of 15 matches in the tournament in three years, we are unbeaten at home in seven matches since last November and we have beaten the tries record.

We have two matches ahead of us. You have to be honest, if you can't beat the Faeroe Islands then there is a problem.

We have to win two games to advance. We think that Erik Bedard matches up better against Japan in the second round.

We have to win our next two matches against Senegal and Zimbabwe, it's that simple.

We have the next couple of weeks to work on some things before the conference tournament. We will be able to take a few lessons from these two matches and see what we can do at the tournament.

We have tended to dominate the last session of the first day of both previous Test matches and it's important that we follow this up now with a good first session tomorrow.

Today was a real solid day for us. I thought both our guys and girls got after it really well in both matches and everyone got to play, which is always good.

Tim came out on top of the rubber match. He wrestled a smart match by being patient and not forcing the issue. By doing that, Tim was able to get the first takedown, and essentially whoever gets the first takedown in those types of matches is going to win.

Travis has had some tough, hard matches where he hasn't always come out on the better end of it, ... There, he did (win) against one of the top kids in his weight class.

Under the hood, I have red wire loom over most of the hoses and lines. I sent the valve cover, part of the air intake and the back dash off and had all of them chromed. Directly under the hood itself, I have made a red cover that matches the trunk exactly, bringing the car together as a whole.

We gifted them a goal and from 1-0 down we are left chasing the game. We have made mistakes in the last two matches now. They happen, but we have to cut them out. It's still a learning curve for us at this level.

We can beat Inter, but we must be prepared to consider that we can't win all matches through the end of the season.

We had to play more. Playing in matches during the week wasn't enough.

We had different kids step up this time that didn't last time and that was the difference in us getting the win. Keeping the matches closer we picked up a couple of extra bonus points that we missed last time.

We had close matches last year (and) I know as long as he's in the tournament he's playing better and better.

We fought every match. I told the guys that we didn't wrestle our best match. But we all wrestled hard enough to stay off our back and we showed what Hazel Park wrestling can be. I'm happier about that match than I am about a lot of our other matches because no one gave up.

We have a very experienced squad and we're ready for the season to begin. The opening weekend will be very challenging. The matches will give us a good indication of where we're at, this early in the season.

We have a tough time starting matches and whenever you set that tone, it's hard to pull out of it.

We have another weekend of matches against really good opponents. Arizona State is a very good Pac Ten team. They have already played a very tough schedule and are no doubt ready. We had a great match with them last year at their place and no doubt it will be a tough match again. We are ready to play so it should be exciting.

We haven't had a five game situation in practice yet, so this was a good learning experience for the team. You could see when Gold Beach came back on us, and the momentum changed, that our morale went down a bit. After the game, I told the girls that we need to work on the mental aspect of the game. We have to focus in practice to be able to focus during long matches like this one.

We haven't conceded a goal in the two matches we've played. Yes, we've only scored one but the signs are bright for us. It's unusual for a Revolution team not to score any goals and that's why, I think, people are making a point of it and quite right too.

The problem is they have played too many home matches already without collecting enough points. I also forewarned them that they may need to go into the market for a couple of players,

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.

Those matches were a big part of my results, playing the No. 1 player in the world and having him on the ropes, and also finally beating Andy got the hiccups off my game and made it a little easier when I go out there.

We were just as strong today as we were yesterday; we didn't come out flat. Not getting the doubles point hurt us, but the singles matches were very tight.

We don't have any time left for experiments. There are four matches to play and we have to win them all. It's as simple as that.

We don't have any matches down there. We're just going to play golf.

We are planning to implement a new scoring system, according to which, athletes have to compete in more matches to add their points. This will cut down the number of walkovers.

The pins killed us. When we're in those matches and go to being pinned ... that killed (us).

What we have witnessed in past matches, and specifically matches where the home team of Korea were involved, I have to say I have difficulties understanding our referee committee concerning the designation of the referees and the linesmen.

We played well, and we had to in order to get a win over a very good opponent. It was one of our more complete matches against a better team.

We played a lot of close matches with these kids and I think part of it was due to frustration.

We're lightening up on resources shares because we're not convinced that the hype about Chinese demand quite matches the reality.

There are other shooting matches open to the public.

We still have some more matches we have to win. The fourth one will be more satisfying. Each one is more satisfying. I think that we had some ups and downs, some question marks. I think we gave a lot up through the season to some teams. We had to battle up and that's what we did this weekend.

We still have a shot, if we wrestle our tails off. The kids are wrestling hard, and that's all you can ask for. We're right in matches with tough teams, but we're just not getting the job done in getting bonus points.

We still have a lot to prove. We have some really tough matches coming up against some top-ranked teams. Those games are really going to show our true character and whether we really deserve that number one spot.

We are confident to win all matches here but we will not take Bangladesh lightly.

We had some matches that could have gone either way. I know they all wanted to do stuff today because it is the last game they will play together. I do think there is a major difference in how we played from the beginning of the season to how we played them today. My girls have made really good strides. I only had three kids with experience.

Yankton matches up with us better than anybody else. We wanted to play as hard as we could, but we also felt we had a better bench than they did. Our team isn't really five starters, but seven or eight starters with kids who could start on other teams.

We played well, sweeping doubles and winning three out of four singles matches in straight sets.

We played well. It was nice to win five singles matches right away. Anytime you can take five singles matches, you feel pretty confident. It was a good team win.

Those were pivotal matches for us. Zach won in straight sets.

Timmy wasn't feeling that great coming into tonight. That 152 class is one of the best in the state and I think we'll see some great matches at the regional.

Tough matches prepare you better for contests ahead.

To (win) three first round matches and really have four extremely quality matches is excellent. Everybody contributed along the way.

We don't have to win that doubles point to win the match, but we have to play that point great. We need to go to war. I certainly want to win that doubles point. We need to at least win one of those matches or else we can kiss it goodbye.

We don't know exactly what that will mean (in terms of how many matches he will miss) - all I've heard from the doctors is he may have broken his thumb.

We won the matches that we had to.

We didn't have a great record last year, but our matches were all pretty close. We just didn't close out very well. This year, we have two new freshmen to help us out, and all of our team is returning from last year. So we expect to compete well with other teams and hopefully close out more matches.

We been together for less than two months and there are only 17 days before the next match, ... International matches are always prestigious, but this is one we can afford to lose.

We're excited to finally get out there and play. We've had three matches rained out, so tomorrow should be really good for us.

We've been working on that front headlock cradle. Johnny's won his last four league matches and he's used that move each time. It's his signature move. And, it's a Bear River move.

The experience we had last year, when the Fire played AC Milan, is something we'd like to replicate every year. We'd like to have one of those matches this season, and we're confident we can do that. But the calendar is very short, so it's extremely challenging.

We shouldn't get into wrestling matches or trash-talking. In the playoffs, it's who plays the hardest.

We shouldn't be overly pessimistic. I would have composed the team differently if this had been a qualification match. It is in such (friendly) matches that I have the chance to give youngsters an opportunity to gain experience. If we always focus on the result the youngsters wouldn't get a chance, and that would be all wrong.

We came a couple of matches away from sending three guys to state. It would have been nice to get a group of guys down there for the first time to share the experience, but they will be rooting for him.

We only won four matches but we got bonus points from three of those four. Cleveland State is a decent team that beat Ohio State earlier this month. There's kind of a rivalry between us so we were fired up and ready to wrestle.

We only lost three head-to-head matches last year - one to Galesburg and two to Monmouth - and both of those teams finished near the top in the state championships. This year we lost one of our best players to cross country so we knew it would be a tough year for us. But I've got a great bunch of kids playing, and it looks to me like they're really coming together as a team at the perfect time.

We pinned when we had close matches tonight. It seemed like when we got them to their back, we were aggressive.

Winning Test matches in India is a difficult business at the best of times. For England to share the series with only half a full strength side was a terrific performance.

We were not ready to play. The matches we won, everybody contributed and the most we lost everybody contributed. I believe by the end of the season we'll be a pretty good team. To finish in the top half at this tournament is a good sign.

We (West Indies) are due to visit England for Tests and One-Day matches immediately after the World Cup , so it was impossible to fit in the Australia tour. We are hoping to play four Tests in England that summer.

We were very pleased about his goal. For him it was fundamental to start scoring again. The last two weeks of training without matches in between have done him a lot of good. Adri is improving, he can be an important weapon for the team. Let's hope he doesn't stop scoring now.

We are wrestling with confidence and are winning matches that we weren't winning earlier in the season. We need to keep getting better and eliminate some mistakes, but these are good results.

We concentrated a little bit more on set pieces this week. The last few matches we've led at half-time, but today it was just a matter of controlling the game and finishing off.

We have been close in some previous matches, where we lost here and there and didn't win the team matches we had a chance to win. From that standpoint, (Tuesday) worked out pretty nice for us.

We would not have been able to achieve these matches without the new palms tool, as we did not have the associated finger(print) marks to go on in each case.

We knew it was important for us to win in the doubles matches. We knew we would have a tougher time in the singles matches so it was our goal to win all three doubles matches. That gave us confidence in the singles matches.

We knew it was going to go down to the wire. A couple of swing matches didn't go our way. They were ready to wrestle. They were the better team tonight.

We knew it was going to be a tough match coming in, because Elizabeth-Forward matches up well with us. We were able to pull out a couple of matches that could have gone either way. We stayed off our backs; that was real important and we were able to bump a couple of kids around that secured a win for us.

We kind of gave the meet away. We had an opportunity to win the meet. We lost some matches we should not have.

We kept preaching to the team that it was a new season. We just told them that we had four matches left to get where we wanted to go and they all jumped on board. This is really what it's all about.

We're not lying to the kids. We know we're not going to win the dual. What we're looking to do is to win as many matches as we can and wrestle well. We want to use it as a barometer going into the sectional.

We're relatively close. We got some matches that maybe we wouldn't have won last year, and we lost a couple of close ones. We're coming along. It's just going to take some time.

This year we want to have both matches at home and avoid long journeys. It is good that we have got the Finland game sorted out and now we have to decide who will be the opponent for the other match.

This tournament will also give some of the reserve guys some time on the mat which is always nice. The exposure in the amount of matches we get Saturday will give us an idea of what we need to work on from here on out, and that experience will allow me to coach better, and will also help the wrestlers improve.

(This tournament) could serve as (a momentum builder). We certainly would like it to. We've got a lot of tough matches ahead but we have to be able to capitalize on our opportunities.

We also played a few matches to be in good nick.

We had a chance to beat (Minnesota) and the matches like at 141, 149, 157 were all pretty tough matches and we lost them all. We just weren't good enough that day to beat them.

We had a 60-point lead going into the finals, so it didn't matter that West Allegheny won two of the three head-to-head matches we had with them.

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We have to comeback (today), and we've got to be refocused. We've got four tough matches to go.

This was an excellent way for us to finish our season. Marquette is tougher than their record might indicate, so to be able to close out tight matches against a team like that is a strong way to conclude the regular season.

This was a great match between two great teams. When two good teams like these meet, you have good, tough matches that make it great to be a part of.

The players need to become competitive again and, to do that, they will need to take stock of the season so far. I want them to finish matches completely shattered but with a great deal of pride,