Basically it is used to supply scholarships for kids from the Gresham area. From the first year (we've held this), we've been able to give a scholarship to every kid that applies. We don't set our qualifications too high.

Once we have those expenses taken care of and the board feels we have an excess of money, we push the rest of the money into an endowment fund. This is our fifth year, and right now we're at $100,000 that we've raised so far, and that's pretty amazing for a little community like this to pull together and do something like that.

It was excellent. It was a great time and I know we did well (raising money) for the number of people that were there.

The kids know we're a little bit of an underdog. But I think there's only two teams capable of beating Franklin in the state, and I think we're one of them. We have to wrestle our best, and try and make some breaks, but we've got a shot.

When you see four, five or six kids packed in one automobile, then it becomes a major problem,

The thing I liked at halftime was that we had about 15 or 20 assists. Our kids are very unselfish right now.