They're a nice team. They've got a few good big guys and a great point guard (Ostrowski), and they have good balance and variety to their game. We just started with too many turnovers and couldn't handle the ball. We're not very experienced.

I was disappointed. I didn't think we played as well as we could. Their quickness hurt and they were more aggressive than us.

It's been a challenge, there's no question about that. We just haven't been able to come up with a formula to get this team to play Mercer Island basketball.

We have not finished games and that has been our biggest issue.

There are a lot of teams that are pretty even, and we feel like we're one of them. We've kind of been in the mode where we haven't finished, and that's been one of our strengths over the years.

They've been resilient all year. We were written off, and (we) always come back.

We came out flat against Newport. The other thing is we poked (David) Kelley in the eye and that spurred him on.

Trevor gave us a nice spark in the second quarter.

They talk about it every single year. They talked about it last year, and the year before that and the year before that. I don't pay any attention to that.