Playing a team three times is hard. It wasn't our sharpest game of the year. We did enough to get over the hump. Give the kids credit, they battled.

I look back on it now and how tough it really was last year and as a team how hard we battled. All the struggles we went through were all worth it in the end.

They've been playing all year round. Every league out there, I see they have a team there.

The core of this team cares. They're playing hard.

We competed hard; we just couldn't keep them off the glass. That was the game in a nutshell.

It's hard to beat a team three times. They're improved.