I told the kids at halftime that it's get after it on defense or our season is ending.

Our kids did a tremendous job in coming through down the stretch. Both teams could have won the game. It was an excellent high school basketball game.

We were coming off of a tough loss and Newman is really an improved ball club. We've got strong kids and got great play off of the bench.

Shooting is a strong point on our team, and these kids really hustle on defense. If we weren't able to do those things, we'd have to do something different. These kids do a great job of playing to their strengths.

We are super proud of our players and their efforts. We will need to have a good week of practice this week to prepare for play against an excellent team from Fort Dodge.

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.