“We got off to a good start in the second half and then hit a lull. We got in some foul trouble and got out of sync with the lineup we had in there. But defensively, our kids kept plugging away. The longer it went, the better we got defensively. Gravette (17-10) was pretty much one shot and out late in the game and we took advantage.”
“We got off to a good start in the second half and then hit a lull. We got in some foul trouble and got out of sync with the lineup we had in there. But defensively, our kids kept plugging away. The longer it went, the better we got defensively. Gravette was pretty much one shot and out late in the game and we took advantage.”
“Tyler is one of those kids who deserves this more than anyone. He's a hard worker and he wanted it. Now he's a district champ and no one can take that away from him.”
“I wish I had a picture of Mike when he was in seventh grade. You wouldn't think a kid could improve as much as he has in the last five years. This all came down to one thing -- hard work.”
“When you come here and the expectations are really high then the failure hurts that much worse. You want it so much for the kids. When things don't work out the way you planned, it's frustrating and upsetting. Things didn't work out for us in the morning and then it just snowballed. We were never able to get out of it. But we had great effort and the underclassmen got a lot of experience.”
“He's shooting for 40 wins. If he gets that, he'll be on the podium. We're going there with aspirations of winning it all but realistically, our goal is to be in the top eight. We want to make sure he's on the podium Saturday night.”