We knew if we wanted to be the state champion, we had to beat Bellevue West. If you're going to get the title, you want to beat the title-holder.

We are taking this very seriously. The process is cumbersome, but it does provide for due process.

It took everything we had, and our kids knew that coming in. We respected them, and we're just glad to get by them.

This was a colossal effort, and we are very anxious to share it with everyone, but we can't go live without an iron-clad site. We need it to work perfectly, but we know what the problem is, and we are looking forward to an internal launch any day now, and a public launch sometime next week.

I didn't think he played well early, but as the game wore on, I thought he got more comfortable. He had a couple of deflections and hit a couple of shots. His energy level came up and he was really efficient with the ball.

It's going to take our best effort to come out and compete. We'll toss it up zero-zero and see what we can do.