I'm ecstatic for him. He's a great kid and a hard worker. He's deserves it. He's going to be tough to replace. He was my coach on the floor.

It was uncharacteristic of our guards to turn it over like we did. But you have to credit them (Lake Region). They have some great athletes.

It will be a very tough game for us.

Our district is crazy. I've never seen anything like this year in my 18 years. All eight teams are capable of getting the number one seed. This victory will certainly help us get closer to that.

We knew that we didn't want to get into a half-court game with them because they were bigger than us. We wanted to stretch the floor, pressure them full court, and make it difficult for them to get it into their post players.

We talked a lot about it. Wharton ended our streak of 62 games against Hillsborough teams, but they were not ending this streak.

We shot well and stepped up defensively quite a bit. I just hope we have some energy left for tomorrow night.