We needed to get over this slump, and we needed to do it against a good team too. Everyone's competitive in our league, but this was definitely a challenge for us. It was nice to stop our losing streak.

In our conference game we killed them and then came to the tournament and lost to them, and we wanted the roles to be reversed, and we did it.

During that one stretch the middle opened up quite a bit more. It was difficult (to create shots), but it was possible, not impossible.

This is a very good team. Everyone has done what they needed to do to get here.

I needed a good driver for the midget team, but since I'm not able to go to all of the USAC races anymore, I did what a lot of the car owners in the Cup and Busch Series do, and that's pick up National Speed Sport News every week,

Sterling has a good, deep team. Their doubles were definitely competitive. We have a predominantly senior team. They just came back the day before from their senior trip. That's not an excuse. They're still a little out of synch. We're still trying to find our rhythm.