We always looked to him. He's been with us for five years and was a starter for three. He understands the game and always competed hard.

The biggest thing with us is we got two seniors on the team and that's it. They're the only two back from our state championship team last year. It's pretty hard to win when you don't have a bunch of seniors.

We had three attempts to tie the game late with all having good looks. They just didn't fall for us.

We did what we had to do, we kept the ball out of the paint a lot today. You know, they beat us three times earlier (this season) and they pounded it inside when we went man-to-man, so we played a lot of zone today. But I liked our effort on the (offensive) end, too.

You can give Coach Miller and Coach Timmer credit there. He came in and wasn't scared at all.

We are a good defensive team, especially for our size. We had a good district and region tournament, I don't care what the scores were. It was a good effort from our kids.