While trying to sum up his team's comeback from the brink of elimination in PIAA Class AA volleyball pool play to winning Pool A, thus earning a spot in Saturday's state semifinals, Northeastern coach Matt Wilson said he tried everything.
But, he added that coaching had nothing to do with the turnaround.
"It was theirs," Wilson said of his players. "They pulled it out. Coaching didn't do anything today.
"I pulled every trick and nothing worked. I tried good cop, bad cop. I tried different lineups, different players, nothing was working today and to get out of this is a relief."
Wilson smiled when he recalled taking a long stroll of the Penn State campus after the Bobcats lost a match to Holy Redeemer before rallying to knock off Deer Lakes.
"It was us. We knew that," he said. "I was frustrated and so were they. I took a nice walk around campus, touched the Rec Hall door. I talked to myself the whole way there and back."
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