This was a potent offense, but our defense made some nice plays and kept hitting hard. I was really happy to see that we kept playing them tough in the second half. Stagg has been known in the past for tough defenses, and I think it will be the same this year.

Don Norton

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Our philosophy is to have an offense for every defense thrown at you. We try to respond to whatever we see. We just like to keep it simple. (Kennedy) is getting better, and he's having better decisions to make.

— Clay Norton

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We took some risks on defense and that may have been why we rushed some things on offense. We got out of our offensive flow, but we won and that's what counts.

The defense had a lot to do with it. We didn't let Geibel do what they wanted to do.

— Don Williams

Our defense was good overall and the seven hits we had are the most we've had in a while.

— Don Wernecke

We got a lot of those points out of our defense. We put a little pressure on them. We scored 22 points but we gave up 19. So both teams were running the ball pretty well.