I thought he would be out at least a week. (Him being in the lineup) made a big difference.

All the kids ran exceptionally well.

We tapered a little bit going into the meet. To me there's too much emphasis placed on this meet. It goes back to when (the CCL) wasn't in the IHSA and this was all we had. I told the kids this is No. 2 for us. The big meet for us is the sectional (Oct. 29).

Our first four ran pretty well. After that we had a pretty big gap.