Sunnyside has been the team to beat over the past five years, and we wanted to make sure we got this game on the schedule. This will be a good test for us.

We have done a pretty good job of getting out the kids who are not doing anything in the spring.

It really doesn't help us out. We don't get any playoff points, and neither do they. I have the utmost respect for them and the program. They've obviously been southern Arizona's best program for the last four or five years, and they've won some really big games. We look at them as a marquee team in Arizona, and we'll take our best shot.

We want to find out where we're at in the regular season, instead of waiting for the playoffs.

This is very timely. It's way past needed. ... (Some parts of the city) are absolutely a bad sight to look at.

Without the hurricanes, it could have been 14 consecutive months of below-normal rainfall. This past March was one of the driest - if not the driest - Marches on record for a large portion of South Louisiana, and this extremely dry spring weather has persisted through the first half of April, as well.