Joy's been an outstanding addition to our program. Joy will be an outstanding coach for Hurley basketball, and we have such an outstanding program. We're already organized down to the fourth grade again.

I think we will be a pretty good basketball team in the next couple of weeks. I think we are playing more consistently than we were.

It's shear joy. For those girls ... we've got five seniors who have dedicated their whole lives to basketball - summer open gyms, summer camps, traveling all over Western Pennsylvania to play games - and I'm happy for them. It's an achievement for them.

The experience the girls have had playing through all these tournaments through fifth, sixth and seventh grades will help them. I've been involved with these girls since third, fourth grade. If I wasn't the coach, I was taking care of the paper work. Nine of the 10 girls played on the summer team. The girls are still growing up and learning as we go.

We haven't won a regional here for 26 years. I think the girls are really ready and focused. They don't like to lose and if everything goes well, I don't think a trip to sectionals is out of the question.

We just couldn't get anything to fall. We'll need to shoot better than that in the tournament.