Ricky Shook
Ricky Shook
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If you have a three or four guys go deep, you can win the State Open. You've got to get everybody to wrestle well and get your team points. That's what we're going to try to do.
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Franklin High is here and Amity added some tough kids. Look at New Milford. They were second last year and they're fourth this year. Fourth with a good team that is top 10 in the state. We added some tough teams to the tournament this year.
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It was a little harder this year. This is 18 out of 19, but we had some tough competition.
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They knew that part of our goal was to have 11-12. After this week it is seven to nine for New England's. If we have only four or five it won't help too much. The last two weeks we have talked a lot as a team about goals. This tournament was one of them.
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The State Open, the way it's bracketed, you just never know where you're going to end up. If you have three good guys that go to the finals you're going to score a lot of points. Some teams this year have that available to them, teams like Windham or Ledyard or even a team like Griswold probably.
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We had a really good tournament and we had guys wrestle hard. New Milford also had a great tournament. This says a lot for wrestling in our two little towns.
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We're just striving to get guys through this week. I'm hoping to get between four and eight guys through. If we get eight, that would be great. If we get four, it's going to be a struggle. We usually end up right in the middle of what I think, so we'll probably get five or six.