Moorpark College men's basketball guard Mike Meza on the first-place Raiders' visit from Santa Barbara City Saturday night:

"It was a good week. It was just a good week of practice for us, getting ready for the season half of the season. It's going to be a battle."

(On Moorpark's 88-82 win at Santa Barbara earlier this month)

"That was a shootout. We know now that we need to buckle down on our defense. We scored a lot but we let them score a lot.

"We're going to carry over our defense effort from Cuesta."