Chad Hitchen Quotations

We started off by losing a tough one at 103 and we rebounded well with Javier and Mariano (Portillo) having big wins.

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.

He's a senior and he has to prove to himself that he can handle it.

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.

Fatigue and the flip were both factors because we had a tough match against Mahnomen.

Things started off nicely tonight with Anthony getting that pin.

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.

The night started with a pin and ended with a pin and we took care of things in the middle.

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.

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.

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.

He's proved to me and proved to other kids in the region that he should be a one or two seed.