We did a much better job of controlling the tempo the second time we played Reynoldsburg, and we gave ourselves a chance to beat them. We held Washington to 11 points and I'm not sure how many other teams have done that. Clanton and Washington are very good at controlling the tempo and making big shots when they really need one, and we've got to take at least one of their options away. You can survive one of them having a big game, but not both of them.
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This is a proud time for the Reynoldsburg band program. Rarely does a small community like ours have the opportunity to be recognized by another country.
This is the time of year you'd like to be gearing up for the postseason, and we're not really wrestling very well right now. We went up to Toledo Waite (Jan. 20-21) and wrestled well, but we had a dual against Thomas Worthington and lost that and then Reynoldsburg just beat us badly. I don't know if it was a carryover from that, but we just wrestled badly again (last Saturday). Hopefully we can do better (against North).
The bottom line is that when it was a close game, we could zone them and we were doing a good job of containing their dribble-penetration. It was (a six-point Reynoldsburg lead) at the half and then they immediately jumped out to a double-digit lead and we had to go man. When we had to go man, that's when Washington and Clanton showed their experience. We just didn't have an answer for them. Most teams don't.
We've talked a lot about the fact that the kids would like to defend the league title they got last year. If we keep winning in the OCC-Buckeye and pick off Reynoldsburg, we'll need them to lose one more game. Reynoldsburg's a good team and we're going to try and pick them off.
I really feel like our sectional was one of the toughest with great teams like Marysville, Reynoldsburg and Westerville Central. We definitely are peaking at the right time. We saw some great wrestling from our team from top to bottom.
We beat a variety of teams, so to me nothing should surprise us. They've got a lot of tradition and they always have a lot of great athletes. We just have to go out and have fun and enjoy being there because we deserve to be there. We're not a big team and we're going to be working a lot on boxing out. But we're undersized and we went out and beat a team like Reynoldsburg that's got some big guys.
Reynoldsburg proved to me they are the best team in central Ohio. They were physical and fought the whole time.
This speaks volumes about these kids. I think the boys believe ... well, what was (Brian Brakeman's) quote 'It is time to see whether (Reynoldsburg) can wrestle with the big boys.' I think we've shown that we can.