This season's schedule came together over the last few weeks, and we hope that our fans are as excited as we are about the events offered for the upcoming season.

We give up a couple of weight classes so we struggle in dual meets. But as individuals, our guys are starting to peak toward the end of the season. I like the position we're right now as far as what we have to get done between now and regional postseason time.

He did a great job in, by far, one of the toughest weight classes here. There were four returning state qualifiers. ... He gave up the first takedown early in each of his matches, which is very unusual, but in all the matches he stayed poised. He's very poised on the mat. It speaks to his experience.

It's nice to host a meet like this because you're comfortable competing at home. We wanted to place in the top three (and we did that), but this felt like any other weekend for me.

Nick is 22-2 and he's having a great season. All of those guys are juniors except for Alex Saunders, who's also doing well as a freshman, so that bodes well for the future if they can have that much success as underclassmen.

We're still relatively small. But I think that's going to start to change because they're opening a new middle school next year in Geneva so we'll have two middle school programs. (Numbers) have always been an uphill battle for us, and then someone gets hurt and that makes it tough with a hole in the lineup.

We've been hitting our shooting, passing and dribbling since Christmas break and it's coming around. It was an all around good team effort. I knew we matched up well against them and we knew we'd have a chance if we shot the ball.

The girls went out with a little bit of heart and got the job done.

It just makes him hungrier for next week. He just didn't take enough shots. Escamilla was prepared, took more shots and he won.