It was a back and forth game. Both teams made some mistakes which allowed us to put runs on the board. It came down to whoever made the big play first would win.

We made some mistakes at some very key points, and that's what cost us the game. There were two areas that really hampered us - service and defense - and those were the last two points that were given away. When they led 13-12, to tie the game we missed serve to give them game point. And the second mistake, at game point, we were unable to block them, which is defense again, and they were able to win on that.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

We don't feel lucky. We capitalized on their mistakes.

We fought through the match. It's just that we were just making so many mental mistakes. I kept telling them, 'Play smart; do smart things.' … We had some things that just didn't go right for us.

The city had probably made some inadvertent technical mistakes in computing overtime, ... The city had paid firefighters about what the Fair Labor Standards Act would have mandated, but we paid EMT pay, Hazmat pay and longevity pay as a specific amount every pay period rather than including it as a pay component for overtime pay computation.