You couldn’t ask for a better teammate. And I think all of the other guys would say the same thing.

The kids came out and attacked and had fun as a group. I was proud of the way they played and cheered for each other.

That start was critical for us. We were struggling defensively. They’re so quick. Offensively, we were fortunate to knock down the shots.

Our seniors are going to have to guide us the rest of the way.

Their defense never allowed us to get in a rhythm. We were playing a little fast, a little nervous.

We control our destiny still, and that’s all you can ask for.

We kept cutting the lead to four, then we got it to two, but we just couldn’t get over the hump. Centralia is a good team. They’re tough to play.

We got a good spark from Dillon Clark off the bench. Jeff Sego’s leadership was awesome.

We knew we had played a good 16 minutes. We also knew the next 16 was even bigger. Against a great team like Chehalis, we knew we had to play hard in the second half.

It is the Pac-9 and on any night anything can happen.

It was a great game for Nick Martin. We wanted to reward him for his hard work.

You just knew Thurston was going to come back. Even at 18-2, I knew it was going to be something like this. That’s what playoff basketball is.

Our defense got us rhythm and it got us confidence. You look at Chehalis and they can really fill it up. We fed off our defense.

Defensively we were pretty tough. We held them to 37 percent shooting, but offensively we never could get going. That’s a credit to them.