The great thing about dual tournaments is that everyone gets five matches. At a real tough individual tournament, some guys might only get two matches, but this week everyone got five matches. It's good for conditioning and it's also great for team camaraderie.

We have to win the tough ones to win the dual. Our guys did a good job. You have to get on a roll to get the crowd out of it and get some momentum.

Ellsworth comes down here and they're awfully tough. West Salem, we lost a dual match to in a team tournament, and it came down to the last match. We're pretty even with them. Our main push, team-wise, will be with Ellsworth. Whether us and West Salem knock each other and don't do the job against Ellsworth, will determine who wins it.

Those guys carried me through. I had a lot of tough three-set matches this week, and they were my legs in those third sets.

The tournaments take place in a round-robin format; whoever wins the best of five matches between participants advances.

We like playing those guys. When the singles field is so tough they're usually playing so many matches, then they have to come out and play doubles, it's tough for them. Sometimes they end up just pulling out of the doubles.