Bart Tooley Quotations

We will definitely know where we stand after Saturday. This will be the test. We're coming off a good game against West Canada. (The Indians) gave us some different looks and made us make some adjustments and the kids responded real well. I expect the same thing will happen this week.

We knew our defense would be a strong point but I don't know if we thought they would play that well. We have so many kids back who have been through so much. They have the experience to recognize what's going on and anticipate the play.

I think this win says last year wasn't a fluke.

That got Paul into a rhythm. We went back to the backfield they're comfortable with and that helped settle them down.

Defensively we're right where we want to be. We've been stopping people right along and we stopped them again tonight.

The turning point was not letting them score again before halftime. It could have been 21-14. Instead, we knew we were getting the ball back (to start the second half) with a 21-7 lead. That was a key.

This is one you circle on the calendar. And when you know that you're going to be playing them early in the year, you're going to know right away how good you are. Dolgeville's the litmus test. When Dolgeville's on your schedule, people always want to know how you did against Dolgeville.

I give West Canada Valley a lot of credit. They did some things on defense that took us out of what we wanted to do offensively. They came out and played with intensity and by the end of the first quarter we knew we were in a game.

They gave us a lot of different looks and spread us out. The no-huddle offense that they opened the game up with did not bother us all that much because we run a little no-huddle offense ourselves, I think it was just more of a case that they were ready to go at the start of the game. They had a good game plan and took advantage of some early mistakes.

Brandon Dunn is a tremendous athlete and their entire team should be proud of the way they played. They played us tough and I give them a lot of credit because we were not able to do some of the things that we wanted to do.