We knew they'd been a hot team this whole tournament. We had to play good defense if we wanted to win a championship, and I think we did a good job.

At halftime, we just talked about getting after it on defense, so that we could widen the margin.

I don't think there's anybody not wanting to [play defense], but maybe, subconsciously , we haven't been completely focused. Tonight we kind of got caught up with the officials a little bit; we weren't completely focused in the second half.

We knew we had to play defense, get three and out, and play big.

Our kids will take the same attitude they've taken all year and that's to compete and rebound and play defense and execute on offense.

But second place (in the javelin), I was happy with that. But the high jump? That was just bad.