 Stevenson falls 57-55 in the season opener to Catholic Glen Clark with head coach Gary Stewart. Coach I know it's pretty good effort from your team today and you were playing without a couple of important guys. I also know that you probably would have liked to have come away with a victory today. How do you measure the performance as a whole from your team? Well I was really proud of our guys. Obviously they're a really talented group. They've got two Abadabas that are hard to get a tourniquet on and I thought our kids did well to battle up against all the ball screens that they saw and we had different coverages in different zones so to be able to recognize that and we got to be straight line drives in the second half and a little bit of that was fatigue a little bit of communication and a little bit of that was Catholic scheme so I don't fault our guys the effort the concentration was there and then the ball stuck in the second half and so we didn't have great ball movement we didn't move very well without the ball and we're 18 practices in so into a new system trying to integrate everybody so we knew it was gonna be a challenge and then you you throw in having KJ and and McCall out of there you know that that made things even more difficult for us. Nate Arendt in the second half you got a big body in there and he really went to work offensively and gave you guys a huge boost. Yeah he finds a way to score he's a little slippery inside and a little bit unorthodox and finish as well it came down to us in Catholic for him so he was a highly recruited kid and and at the end it was it was us too and so we're we're glad we got him. He's an impressive player coach just being here and having the crowd out here today and people into it a lot of people coming over after the football game after everything you guys have been through to be playing basketball in November in front of fans what did it mean to your entire team today? Oh it's so important you know it's it's trying to get back to normality and you know it was so good to just yell at the officials and hear the crowd and be in this environment again and play a meaningful basketball game and onward and upward you know I'm really excited about the team but I'm also excited about where our COVID numbers are trending and so the combination of those two things bodes well for for not only our basketball program but the community and then the country at large. We got a big weekend coming up next weekend too it's exciting to have these types of events back here at Stevenson University I know how much it means to your program. Yeah thanks Glenn for that we we are excited to get back to practice and obviously we've got two heading into next weekend and that'll be very important for us so we can learn some things from today and and hopefully apply those lessons and play a little bit better next weekend. Coach we'll see you then appreciate it thanks for taking the time for us as always. Thank you Glenn. Coach Gary Stewart I'm Glenn Clark go Mustang Sports.com