For our seniors, it was a combination of joy and relief. They realized this was their last chance to get a district title. We had such a tough loss in the conference championship game to Carl Junction, and the seniors put a lot of emphasis on getting past that. |
He hasn't said one word about it. Honestly, none of us even realized it at the time. |
I couldn't believe it. I got a little carried away there, but when you get old like me, you wonder how many (chances you'll get to celebrate like that). I jumped around a little bit. We're just really excited about our players, especially the seniors. |
Of course we're disappointed now, but to make this trip up here with these kids, it will show that we belonged and should go a long way towards our program. |
That was just as big of a play as his final shot. |
They had a great game plan. It's a game I'm sure none of our players will ever forget. |
To get respect, you have to earn respect. Hopefully that's what we did this weekend. |
We haven't had a team actually come out and guard us since the Carl Junction game. |
We knew it was going to be a grinding game. We knew it was going to be a possession-by-possession game. We picked up the defensive intensity in the second half and that made a big difference. |
We survived the first half and their good shooting. It's a credit to our kids and how hard they worked. The second half was the best 16 minutes of our season. |
We've been through a lot with teams playing us differently. But it's all right because we have one of those situations where no one cares who gets the credit. They just work really hard to get the win. |
When you haven't won a district in 12 years, you can't look ahead to anything. And once you make it this far, you just put your best team out there and see what happens. |