We are really in a race against the clock. He is doing really well right now, but we know that the muscles are dying a little bit every day.

It's kind of narrowed the gap between what he can do and what his siblings and peers can do.

War needs to be waged on this disease. Twenty years ago if a child was diagnosed with cancer it was a death sentence; now there's an 80 percent cure rate. I just think if there's enough awareness raised and we move research ahead, something can be done.

Of course it was absolutely, positively the most shocking thing in the entire world, because he had no symptoms to begin with. We were really in disbelief this could be his diagnosis.

They got some hits right down the line that kept some of those innings going. We could have gotten out of those innings. And then it's a different game. But give Douglas credit. They hit the ball real hard.

I thought we were very lucky with the wind conditions. Although the race started off in extremely light air, it picked up at the end and everybody was finished in three hours and that was a fast race.