The kids are kind of excited about playing in their old home. The Civic Arena is strictly a basketball facility as opposed to the new multi-purpose facilities. These kids understand about Aberdeen basketball and its history. Some of their parents played in the arena.

They just didn't give up. We're a good basketball team at the right part of the year. We're playing as hard as we have all season. We're playing as well as we have all season. I'm very happy with the effort of our kids.

We have to win a game so we're the home seed all the way through the district tournament.

We've been off to such slow starts, and we tried to make that a point of emphasis to our kids: we have to get off to quicker starts.

I'm not going to fault the effort of our kids, they played hard, particularly in the second half. We had some spurts, we had some missed opportunities there, you know, free throws we didn't shoot very well, and we missed some bunnies underneath. Those are things we're going to have to have to be in the win column.

Kids who are too small for basketball or not big enough for football find a home in fencing.