We have to respect Hamilton. Any team that gets this far you have to respect. We?re not going to take them lightly.

Our bench really stepped up today. The came out and not only scored, but gave us solid minutes. They came in and picked up the slack.

One of the differences between this year?s team and last year?s team is our defense. We?re a lot better defensively and we can stop teams and that get into our half court set. We don?t have to run that much.

We're a third-quarter team. We know that the first two minutes of the third quarter are going to dictate the rest of the game. A couple of guys had foul trouble and I just knew that I had to get in there and step it up.

It's surprising, but a lot of times we've had really talented running backs so once you get down to the goal line, we were able to run it in most of the time.

Hopefully we'll get a chance to make some plays around the end zone and we can get in there.