Any time you go to Central Oregon, you aren't terribly unhappy with a split. What we are disappointed with is that we worked hard all year to win a league championship, and we may have lost that (with the loss to Redmond).

Down time is not the name of the game.

It is uncertain at this time how soon the export crisis will be resolved, ... With current world conditions, the import problem is far broader than hot-rolled products from three countries, and we continue to evaluate new trade cases against these and other nations covering a number of products.

I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

Our guys worked extremely hard, we thought well enough to win the game. We just made mental mistakes sometimes. Our effort was 100 percent and our mental game was probably 90 percent, but that's okay. Most teams will play 70 to 80 percent of both those.

We want to continue to play well coming into the playoffs.