Between the Capital Circuit and (CAAC-3), we’ve won seven years in a row. We had seven champions and we had eleven in the finals.

He’s still part of our program; he’ll always be a Viking. (It was) a no-win situation but they’re both winners. Eddie just happened to win today.

He stayed very composed but that’s just part of being a champion. But with that being the last match of the day, my gosh, 99.9 percent of kids couldn’t handle that.

When you have a kid of that caliber, the youth look up to him and watch him. He’s such a good kid in the classroom, on the street … wherever he goes.