This is our best shot at winning a title since I've been here. We have to get better as the season goes on but the talent is there.

We'd love to be State Champions, but we would have wanted it by winning the game. If it wasn't Hales it might have been Seneca or it might have been somebody else. You don't know who else would have been in that game and maybe we wouldn't have beaten them either.

The most important thing about winning is how you win, not what you win.

We were winning, 6-4, early on, then we got blitzed. They decided to take it to another level and we're not capable of going there.

That was a big reason why I came here ? because of the success they had, winning it a year ago. Going to spring training and seeing the guys, how they prepare and how they go about their business, you can tell why they won it.

There is a better chance of a person winning the national lottery than catching bird flu in the UK today.