It hurts us in the fact her sister ( Lauren Hille ) was real comfortable playing with her. She had to get used to playing without her.

I look at her and talk to her as an assistant coach at times. She doesn't say a lot to the other players on the team. She talks to her sister and tries to keep her head straight in the game.

It took some time. We've shown signs of doing what were supposed to do, but we're still inexperienced.

That shot at the end of the half really helped lift us and took us into the locker room on a positive note. I don't know a better way to lift a team.

That really helped lift us. I don't know a better way to lift a team. It gave our guys a lot of confidence. It really made a difference in the start of the half.

We did a little bit better on wages that [were] offered to us, but we were not successful in getting the pension proposal that we were hoping for.