16 Quotes by Bart Tooley

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.

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

We only ran 15 plays offensive plays in the first half and we just didn't get in synch. We were too anxious to get on the ball. We made our adjustments at halftime and we came out we were able to move the ball.

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.

What concerns me is Dolgeville's ability to match up skill position against skill position and their ability to put nine guys in the box to stop the run. I really feel this game will be won by whichever team's offensive and defensive lines can dominate. Last year, that's why we were able to win the game.

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.

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

They run a lot of spread formation and they are quick and shifty, which is similar to how Dolgeville plays. This was a good test and a good game for us because it gave us a chance to get a look at some of the things we'll see against Dolgeville.