 Stevenson falls short 72-68 to Messiah Glen Clark with head coach Gary Stewart. Coach your team certainly didn't quit tonight they fell behind there was a hot shooter on the other side of the floor they battled they just came up a little bit short in the end. Yeah a game like this the miss layups magnified and you know we kept telling our guys to get there and they did we kept getting to the basket seemed like there was a lid on it when we got there but we had a great effort on the backboard tried to mix up some defense defenses to stay in the game and and our guys did a lot of good things tonight unfortunately a couple timely layups that we didn't convert. One of the things that really jumped out at me was their assertiveness their aggressiveness offensively in the first half and I don't know that we have seen that throughout the course of the season but this seemed like a determined group of guys are out on the floor tonight. Well I think that's a combination of things obviously we're getting more acclimated to each other as the season goes and then we're executing a little bit better the ball still sticking but but not as much and and when we can get the ball sided and get the ball down on the baseline and play through the tunnel we can be effective it's when we start standing around and watching and say here Cliff go and go and make a play was when we get in trouble. Johnny Rhodes 16 second-half points he came off the bench he had a personal 7-0 run at one point you know how much of a lift has he been coming off the bench this season. He's been great he's explosive and and obviously anybody that can get 16 points and a half a basketball has an ability to to score and he's a multi-level score you know he can score mid-range he can step out and make a three like he did tonight and he can get to the rim. We're excited about his future. You have a largely very young team coach how much progress do you feel as though they've made even if it hasn't always translated in the wins and losses department. Well it's interesting you know when you're when you're in it and in the battle you just you just keep kind of put your head down keep swinging so that's something we'll evaluate as we get out of the season but right now we're we turn our attention to Weidner and and we have gotten better there's no question about that and there's some areas that we certainly need to continue to shore up. Back home Saturday afternoon coach thanks for taking the time for us tonight. Thank you. He is coach Gary Stewart I'm Glenn Clark this is GoMustangSports.com