It's great for the community and great for the kids. It's an opportunity to let them sleep in their own beds, and that helps in competition.

Defensively, we stepped up our intensity. We were bringing up the pressure on our traps in our full-court press.

It was expected the way both teams played in the first half, after the delay and one team sitting on a bus for an hour.

I was pleased with our defense. We made some adjustments at halftime to correct some mistakes and it really improved us defensively.

We were a little disappointed that adding artificial turf to the infield at Joe Martin didn't end up being part of the accepted bid. That's something we all wanted because we have so many rainouts.

Jackie Zender came off the bench in the second half and really sparked us.