Our motivation was way up. This was a confidence boost for us. We had a long talk in the locker room before this match. I'm happy.

We knew they didn't have a 171-pounder and Daniels didn't get to wrestle last week because Carthage bumped their wrestlers.

We had a really good couple of weeks of practice. We hammered a lot of areas they were struggling at before Christmas.

Our motivation was way up. We felt like we needed to come out and prove ourselves.

We're going to have to have our heads in the game to compete with them.

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

We knew we had to pin from 152 up and we couldn't lose another match.