Perspective on the 2018 Season #1

It's interesting to look back at our season in many different ways. A lot of times we judge ourselves harshly when we don't need to, or we don't realize our great wins or good losses. In order to put that in perspective, I will be making a series of posts with a bunch of weirdish facts from our season.

HOW GOOD WAS OUR SCHEDULE?
Sectional Winners Faced on the Year
In Regular Season
- Fairfield
- Concord
- Westview

In Tourneys
- Merrillville (we tied them 2-2, finished higher at #1D)
- Chesterton (we lost 0-2, finished lower at every other position)
- St. Joseph (we lost 0-3, finished lower at other positions)
- DeKalb (JV)

We actually faced less teams that won their Sectional this year than last year. Last year, Angola and Wabash ended up winning their Sectionals - and so that was two more teams we faced with titles. This year, during the regular season we played the teams all the teams that advanced to our Regional except DeKalb. However, our JV did play DeKalb in a tournament.

At the Merrillville tourney, we finished 4th behind Chesterton, St. Joseph, and Portage. Portage didn't win their Sectional, but Merrillville who we actually won 2 matches against and lost 2 matches against did. So, in all, we played in some form 7 of the 64 teams who ended up being Sectional champions.

Teams with a Winning Record
- Angola
- Jimtown (14-7)
- Northridge (9-7)
- Goshen (17-4)
- Marian
- Concord (18-2)
- Fremont (9-7)
- Westview (15-4)
- NorthWood (13-5)
- Fairfield (16-4)
- Wabash (13-9)
- Goshen (17-4)

These are opponents that we faced in dual matches. It does not include opponents that we played against in the Portage tournament (because then we could add St. Joseph, Chesterton, Portage, Merrillville, Centerville and Highland to this list!)

All this list goes to show is that we've played some really good competition as a team this season. 11 of the teams we played in dual matches had a winning record. And we had 11 losses on the season. You can see that we couldn't quite get over the hump with teams that were really good this year.

It is really interesting to look at some of the matches that we had. For example, Westview ended at 15-4 on the season - and they felt like a team we really could have beaten if we'd have been on top of our game that day. They also won their Sectional. Fairfield advanced to the Regional final, and I remember thinking that we were going to beat them as #1D, #2D and Caleb all held 2nd set leads in their matches. So, it's really interesting to think about how close we were to teams that really had fantastic seasons.

So that speaks a little about how good the teams were that we played. How well did we do at each position? That will come in our next post.