They boys were fired up from the start. We were very happy to get that goal.

We were on top of them for the first five minutes, and I think our guys thought it was going to be like last game, that we were going to score at will. But it's not like that. They're the number three team in the state, and they're there for a reason.

We were brilliant on defense, and that's what won us the game.

We have some big kids and a kid that can throw the ball, so every time we get a throw from 40 yards out, we try to put it in the box and let our trees go after it.

We always try to come out of the gates hard. We want to put away teams in the first 20 minutes, and we may not have done it with goals, but with the way we played, we wanted to let them know we were there from the first whistle.

Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.