It showed us some of the things we need to work on. And I think it's motivation.

On paper it looked like it was going to be a pretty tight dual. Merrill beat us up through the middle and that was the key.

There's nothing more gratifying to our seniors who have been workhorses for us the last four years. For some of our younger guys, it's showing them the way and hopefully giving them experience for what could be a lot of successful years to come - at least that's the goal.

They are strong up the middle. They had a good run of guys there.

We pitched the idea to IDOT and they told us to give it try because they wanted the work done.

He's a work horse and he basically beat us single-handedly. But we're not the first team he's done that to.