We scrambled around to find a date. The next five days will be equally tough on us. I haven't seen Moeller (since last season).

There were a couple things that we tried. They played good defense and took a few things away from us.

The kids are handling the rankings well. We just tell them to remember where they came from, what got us here. It's hard work and unselfishness. Maybe we're not the No. 1 team in the state, but if it's based on attitude, then we might be.

It was a physical game, kind of what we're use to playing in Cincinnati.

We thought Clanton could play one on one against any of our guys and win that battle. We wanted to make him always play against one guy with another guy ready to come at him if we needed to.

We've had some very close games at Purcell (Marian) and Alter. I think in a good way they are not worrying about the (state) poll. They are worrying about how many games we have in a row, as well as our league.