I was just trying to find five players who could play defense. We played a very porous defense.

I've heard their kids are still playing hard. When you're struggling it's easy in late January for kids to kind of quit.

It's very important, because (Prow) needs to be able to score like this.

Some of the best coaching jobs are coaches who go .500 without a lot of talent. It doesn't get noticed by the media or fans, but (coaches) see it. That's the great thing about high school sports. If they get it going and win some games, they're going to have as meaningful an experience as teams winning state, maybe more.

She's a pretty experienced varsity athlete. She's had almost all of her varsity career playing in big games for teams, and we knew she was capable of producing.

I think Merrillville is the clear favorite. They've beaten everybody in our sectional and I think everyone would prefer not to have drawn them. ... We get a break with the bye, but we have to beat Merrillville at some point, so why not start out with a chance to beat them.

We just did a lot better tonight. We created some offense with our defensive pressure.