As a coach, you prepare your kids for this type of battle all year long and hope they respond to the challenge.

Someone had to lose, I guess. I just think we needed to get a few more shots. The guy did a pretty job of hand fighting. We just needed a little more offense to keep the guy on his heels.

There's nothing more nasty than giving kids hope and then snatching it away as fast as you can.

They're very active, very social, very smart kids -- they're firecrackers.

Credit East Grand Forks, they didn't go away. There's no quit in those kids.

The kids just had one of those innings. We blew the lead and they had several mental breakdowns.