Joe Humasti Quotations

We have a really strong men's team. We've got a lot of talent and depth on this team and our main goal this year is to make it to state championships.

We need at least two scores in the mid-70s to be competitive. All five of our starters are capable of shooting lower scores.

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

If we would have had one more player and he shot the average of the rest of the guys, we would have finished around fifth place or better. Our goal now is if we can't get qualified as a team, that we get as many of our players to the regions as possible and the way they're improving, we could just exceed our expectations.

If we shave a few strokes here and there in our short game, we should be right there. It's that close and that competitive in this league. Anyone can win.

Overall we skied really well. But (the race) shows anything can happen and it can be anyone on the team who scores.

I was very pleased with Matt Smith's race, he put in extra effort and we might not have made it (to state) without him.

We do have to shave strokes off our game. We'll have to shoot consistently in the 70s if we want to do well this season and I think we can.

We had a lot of great competitors and since most are underclassmen, there's no reason we shouldn't do better for the next few years.

We had only eight competitors, while the other teams had at least eight. And these guys really stepped it up when they had to.

We practice three times a week over in Carson City and are working hard on the short game. After all, 70 percent of golf is played at 100 yards or less.

We only had six skiers, which put extra pressure on the team to be as flawless as they could be. But I have to say that I was really impressed with how the kids stepped up and compensated for the lack of depth.

What happened to Eli could have happened to us just as easily. Our place at state isn't a sure thing until the final gun sounds. All it takes is for your top two guys to go down and then it's up to the bottom four to make up the points.

(The short game) does tame time and patience. The team is willing to dedicate the necessary time to improve. The results don't come overnight - it's a game where a lot of practice eventually pays off.

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

This is the first time ever that we competed at this level and I'd say we've served notice on the other schools. I couldn't be happier.

This could be our first chance in years to compete at state. Truckee and North Tahoe will be the teams to beat, but the kids are really excited and everybody is pushing one another to do well this season.

This league's got an unprecedented level of competition. It's been a battle all year.

It was Clay's best race of the year. He picked a really good line through the course and finished strong.

It meant that the rest of the team had to be almost perfect to keep us in the race. And while we weren't perfect, we did well enough to end up in fourth place after the first day, only 13 points out of the lead.

It's another GS race and the course should be longer. If we want to beat the North Tahoe and Truckee men we'll have be more aggressive and make sure everyone is there to race.

It's going to come to the bitter end. This year's league is very competitive and the two teams that finish consistent from here on out will go to state.

That kid really shot lights out. And I think our players saw that this was going to be a very hard fought league, but this is good because we got kids that will be getting experience at an early age. It'll just make them better.

Talk about parody, it was only a matter of two points that kept us from a third place finish behind Reno. And we were less than 50 points behind the first place finisher (Galena).

It's been great and I can see that they are starting to improve their games. It's just a shame we can't get enough players to qualify in team standings. I think we'd place pretty high.

It's hard to be on a golf team because of the burden it places on a kid trying to get his schoolwork in. We miss entire days of classes to go to matches and I understand how hard that can be. But we've got a very competitive group and we'll be all right.

If you look at the scores, there's only 24 strokes separating first and sixth place. That's not a lot of strokes.

The lower kids in the line-up really came through to get us through to the final.