Our kids decided in the second half that they wanted to play Saturday. Third is the best we can finish, and we're going to try to do that.

You can definitely tell we have a lot more experience. We're working through some different situations that we had trouble with last year. And we're trying to get better maturity wise. When things flustered our team last year, the guys started to fall apart. This year, that's not happening.

Gardiner's defensive pressure was unmatched. It was something we hadn't seen all year.

We've played all year with a bull's-eye on our backs, and it shouldn't be any different this week.

There were some tough battles, but our kids did what they needed to do. Overall, it was a very good day. We had a lot of individual guys get some tough matches in, and we came away with a tournament win.

Nick and John are very good with the kids. They teach them well. There not just getting in there and swinging the swords around. Fencing instills a lot of discipline in them.