They just made one more play than us. Maynard made a great move to get to the bucket and then made the foul shot. From my angle, it looked like our shot was going to drop, but they just made the extra play.

They picked up the intensity tonight. We were ready to play. We just didn't execute the little things well enough to get the game closer.

Yes, we made some mistakes playing hard, but that will happen sometimes with a team like us. We're still learning, but the effort was there tonight, and I can't argue about that.

Because of our name a lot of teams don't want to play us. But we feel like this team can get a lot better by playing against top-quality teams and hitting against top-quality pitching. I think it's going to help us, and we don't want to shy away from anyone.

We came out on fire, which is something I was worried about because of the 13-day layoff. We played great in the first quarter, right with them the whole time.

They're real young, but our kids came out and executed and took care of business tonight.