Another strong pitching performance for us. Our pitching and defense has been good, we just have to come up with some runs and clutch hits.

It wasn't a great performance from us against Birmingham but seven points is still a big gap over Manchester United and we are confident of securing the title again.

They played us great on defense. Melissa is our big gun and they took her out of the game with their defense. We also had overcome their height advantage, but we're young and young teams make mistakes. Now we have to mature.

There were a couple things that we tried. They played good defense and took a few things away from us.

We stepped up the defense in the second and third quarters. That kind of got us to where we wanted to be.

Defense is what carries us. It got us the momentum and it got us some easy baskets. That's how we got that run.