Our defense has kept us in games all season. Tonight we did a good job on Aaron Smith. We did not let him get too many quality shots and we frustrated him a little.

Our 1-3-1 defense has won a lot of games for us, so we just keep reminding ourselves of that every time a team makes a run on us.

We had won six games in this league in large part because we played really good defense. We didn't have the same type of presence or assertiveness on Sunday.

Defensively, I'm very happy with the way Jess stopped Lucas. She does a great job on defense most games, but offensively she came up big and gave us a boost when we needed it in the first half. She hit some big shots and had some key buckets.

If our pitching and defense can keep us in ball games and we use our team speed and timely hitting, we could get some wins early which will help our confidence.

Our defense got them again tonight. That's what got us through all our games and that's what won us our championship.