EWING — The Chiefs fight never left. That's just not Cherokee's way. The secret to the success this team had all season was never in doubt. Or even a secret, to be fair. "Just the grit that we have, I mean, you even saw it today," Cherokee junior Abby Ball said. "We were down big in that third quarter. We said great and kept working with each other. These are the girls we've been playing with since second grade when I first started. To be able to end it with this group, it was great.