Stark County's defense had a lot to do with how we ran our offense. We had no open looks on the perimeter and when we tried to get the ball down low they did a great job on Andy (Frank). That is the best defensive team I have seen in a long while.

Jeff Parsons

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We're really focusing on defense. It really hurt us early on. We've been pressing, trying to get stops. Now, we're locking up and playing better helper-to-helper defense.

— Dale Parsons

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We set a precedent that we can play a good team, we can play defense and we're one of the better teams in the league. I saw [Borders] was ahead of me in scoring, and I wanted to let him know I want to be the top scorer in this league.

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We kicked the ball, we played defense, we covered kicks.

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Our plan was to try to attack the weaknesses of the defense. We knew coming into the game that they had some injuries at corner and we had to test those guys.

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We shot the ball extremely well. But I'm even happier that we played better defense, moved the ball well and played unselfishly.