They were losing hope,

We have to take whatever positives there are away from this series. We have to keep battling. After losing that first game we kept fighting in game two. We kept coming back. We put ourselves in a situation to win it. We just have to go out and get it done. We have to do the same things we were doing that got us to the point before we started to struggle.

You have to get over (losing). When I lost I had to come back.

It's real frustrating, I'm not going to lie. We keep practicing so hard, then keep losing. We just have to find a way, we can't start pointing fingers.

It feels great to finally break the curse of our (playoff) losing streak. I've been on this team six years and every year we've made the playoffs and lost in the first round. This is an amazing feeling.

Any rancher or landowner out there is still losing a lot of sleep worrying about looking out the window and seeing his or his neighbor's place on fire.