They refuse to lose. We've gone to overtime three times and had a number of other close games. We're battle-tested.

The last two years, all three games that we've won here have either been buzzer beaters or overtime games. It's getting to the point I can't take a lot more of them. But as long as we keep coming out on this end of it, I guess I'll live with it.

Derek lost to the eventual champion (Jonathan Torres of Windham) in overtime. That match could have gone either way. He's still just a sophomore and all this was a great experience for him.

We couldn't close the game. These last few games could have gone either way. It's hard. We knew that they play hard. They are young but they play hard.

We can't lose an inordinate number of people to academic and character issues.

We play difficult teams every game, all year long. We made it by sticking to our motto. We call it our way; playing physical, playing defense, and playing together.