We started out slow but put it away in the second half. Burlington is a well-coached team and took away a lot of the things we did the first game. To our kids' credit they adjusted and are starting to understand the need to improvise.

This has been a fun bunch to coach. Other coaches have complemented the kids on the way they play and that's a great reflection on the type of kids these players are.

We started slow but steadily pulled away. It was a total team effort.

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.

When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.'

My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.