8 Quotes by Eric Snyder

Turkey Day was only a little over a month ago, and the football loss is still fresh in the memory of a lot of these kids. It was sort of a 'You got one in football, we'll get one in basketball' kind of thing. It's just a great rivalry.

We've had a tendency to come out sluggish on Saturday. However, this weekend was completely different. We came out strong and played like we know how to play.

This weekend is really important. It's one of the weekends we've been working from the very first practice for, and this is where all the training and work we've done all season will pay off. We're one of the top teams heading down there, so we'll just hope we do enough to move on.

The winner will likely wind up with the No. 1 seed in our league tournament, and really, we haven't clinched anything yet, so it has playoff ramifications. Our kids have been looking forward to it for a long time. I was concerned about us looking past other teams to this one.

Offensively we just couldn't get anything going. Jackson's the type of team where they run a pretty controlled offense. The tempo is where we like it. We'd like the score to be lower. We just need to general some offense.

They're not all fresh faces over there. They have kids who have played in big games before.

It's going to be a packed gym. They'll probably have their band playing on the stage, all of their students will be there and it will be a hostile crowd, but our kids enjoy that. It's going to be a lot of fun.

No matter what we did, it didn't matter. Northern Lehigh had some success with a 3-2 zone against them, but against us they seem to make shots they miss against other teams.