Grader Quotes

We've been doing the program for the past couple of years. We've had wonderful success. What fourth-grader isn't excited to get up and walk around? - Erin Olson

We're trying to rebuild, but so far I've been really happy with the work ethic and dedication from the players. We've got an interesting mix with some eighth and ninth graders along with some seniors that have been around for four years. - Beth McNamara

We're talking about sixth-graders, who are very impressionable. There are so many positives to every world religion. Sixth grade is not the right arena to pull out all the garbage. - Suhag Shukla

We're still battling with numbers. We have the same numbers scenario as last year. We're at 23. They will get better next year. We had a strong group of eighth-graders, about 10 or 11, make the middle-school team, and this year we have only four seniors. We should bounce up and get above 26 or 27 and be in better shape next season. - Paul Melvin

We're small so the fuel issue isn't as big, because we don't have dump trucks we run... we hire that out. It affects our grader but it's not terrible, and the police car uses a combination of township gas and Dandy gas. - Jeff Cole

We're satisfied. We played two of our better ball games out here. We're young, with all juniors and a ninth-grader playing most of the time. Our two big girls probably didn't play more than 30 minutes all night, so we're happy. - Don Shields

We're not going to have too much of a strategy. One side of our back field will be made for really little ones, and the other sides will be open to first- to fifth-graders. - Wes Wilson

We'll see larger differences the older kids get. The new tests put more emphasis on probability and statistics with 11th graders. Previously most of the emphasis was on algebra and geometry. What changes is more of the emphasis. - Joe Stangler

We weren't surprised by what we got when he was a ninth-grader. We knew he was a talented young man. We just focused on getting him polished, getting him stronger. - George Dyche

We were just trying to get some respect for our young kids. These are the same kids who were ninth- and 10th-graders last year and now they're 10th- and 11th-graders. - Jim Reynolds