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KELLY JONES After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it...
CARL MATTEI When we go to the basket and get in a situation where they have to foul us, we shoot pressure free t...
DALE NEIBAUER We just couldn't make a play to get over the hump. They just made enough plays to weather the storm....
JEFF MCDONALD We just couldn't make a shot. We talked about it before the game, we had to make shots. I figured th...
GREG OVERSTREET Eddie was disappointed that he missed those free throws but I told him that we wouldn't have had tha...
BRIAN ELLIS We missed (seven) throws for the game. They missed two. The game boils down to free throws, plain an...
JOE BLINE After they got past the shock part of the press, then they started breaking it pretty easily. So we ...
KEITH ANDREWS We made all those free throws, but we missed the two most important ones at the end. Then we didn't ...
CAROLYN WRIGHT He had a tremendous defensive rebound and they fouled him. He had missed his last three free throws,...
GARY PIPPEN You just never know. We knew they were going to foul us and we had to hit our free throws and we did...
CONNIE WEST He (Ryan Hawn) throws well and we were lucky to hit the ball early and score a couple of runs. We pu...
DAVID TREECE We wanted more movement with the ball. We only had fourteen free throws, so we didn't get to the fou...
NATE MCMILLAN I thought we had a chance. You hold a team to 36 percent shooting, you rebound with them, you get mo...
BUD CHILDERS We got behind and had to foul them, and they nailed their free throws. We cut a 17-point lead down.
BOB REED Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I thi...
ERNESTO ARREDONDO We have to be really consistent and do the fundamental things well, like play good defense, rebound ...
CHARLES PATTILLO We were able to overcome some first-half foul trouble. They made a lot of free throws and were able ...
BRIAN RICCI This was a big win and we now control our own destiny to win district. Free throws were the differen...
ALAN BARTON And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH That was a real killer. That broke our back. If we get that rebound and come down and score, it's a ...
AL KLUNICK My mom always says free throws win games and that's what it came down to. They made their free throw...
ANDY MANGIN It (foul trouble) may have been a key in the second half. But we didn't shoot hardly any free throws...
CURT FREDRICKSON We let them have too many free throws. How can you win a game when you give them that many opportuni...
JENI HOPKINS They did what we wanted to do. They got us in foul trouble and they got to the line and made free th...
CLAYTON RANDALL Alston is tough. I was disappointed we let them get out like that, but we fought back.
LYNN WASHOWICH They were a physical, tough team. Those were two teams getting after it and playing aggressive. We d...
JAMIE DIXON The pressure was on. He knew if he didn't make them and they come down and score, it's over, and tha...
FRANK MORETTI We played a triangle-and-two the last eight minutes of the game, and they didn't score.
STEVE MERFELD![]()
By far, this is our biggest win of the year, especially the way we played down the stretch. We won a...
LEBRON JAMES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... The difference was they didn't get to the line too much. The last time (at Bellingham), they got 30-...
JEFF HIRONAKA We work on them hard enough. We ought to be decent. That's the way the game goes. You have to shoot ...
FLOYD GRIFFIN We wanted to get them in foul trouble. We thought if we kept attacking the basket the way we did in ...
JAMES LANCASTER We were trying to go aggressively to the basket and I felt like we were doing that. But we just coul...
MATT BOWLING We fought. We battled. We stuck to our game plan and stuck together. We did all that and still came ...
TIM WELSH Our free throws really hurt us bad. We had chances to win the game at the end, but we couldn't knock...
JENNIFER LONG Those two guys, Florence and Flannery, were outstanding on both sides of the ball. We ask them to bl...
DAN BURON Two of the things that really hurt us was that slow start and our free throws. We only made 10 of 22...
ED COSTLEY At the four minute mark I figured we had the lead so let's just get the win and get out of here. Our...
CLIFF TONEY It was a scrappy game. I was really pleased with the last five minutes. I thought our execution was ...
BILL DREIKOSEN Our kids battled admirably. But we had too many unforced turnovers, and we would miss two free throw...
CHARLIE HOOD We let the game get close by missing free throws in the fourth quarter. We were lucky to pull out th...
BOB MONAHAN They hit 23 of 26 free throws and that was the difference. They just don't miss from the foul line.
JOEL RANKIN All night, we were trying to get the ball over their defenders and have (Harris) or (Engel) run it d...
JEFF MARTIN That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ...
DEREK THOMAS We get a technical foul that's very deserving. That was the end of the game. After the technical we ...
BEAU THOMPSON Larger than the free throws was the backside rebound she got.
BILL TOMSICH Hopefully we'll learn from this and get better. You've got to make free throws to close out games an...
GRANT MCCASLAND In a close game like this, you're battling and you can't afford turnovers and allow them to score. W...
AL HARRINGTON Besides free throws and taking some unnecessary shots at the end of the game, I thought they played ...
DEB BABER All of our post players fouled out in the overtime. We had to foul on the inside, and their guys hit...
JASON RUSSELL Being able to hold off Nixon's runs was the difference. They (Nixon) can shoot the ball. They'd hit ...
FRANK GONZALEZ That last game, we didn't give it to them, they earned the right to go on. We lost the last game by ...
JULIE WELLS They did what we asked them to do. We had to get off to a good start and control the tempo. And we w...
ALONZO SLEDGE We made our free throws late in the game and that was big.
JOEL SULLIVAN That ices games for us. We've got great shooters, but we knew they were going to foul us at the end....
HENRY UHEGWU I thought the difference in the game were the little things, especially the free throws on both ends...
GUY SHAVERS That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a fl...
LOUIS WHORTON We know they have a nice point guard. We have to contain him. We have to make them take tough shots ...
BRANDON ADAIR If it wasn't for free throws we would have won the game.
MARCUS GRANT We fouled a lot and they made the free throws. I think (it) was over-aggressiveness. We stressed bei...
DAVE BEEBE He knows how to get to the free throw line and he knows how to get people to foul him.
COREY BELSER We started strong in the first quarter. In that last quarter, we could not make our free throws and ...
BILL BUTHORN Their zone hurt us, especially our post players. It took them a long time to adjust. That, and we mi...
JANET ELEAZAR We got in a little foul trouble, but it was good to get other players in the game and hold the lead.
ZAC DAVIS There's no question that at time [the technical foul] put us in control of the game. We were able to...
JEFF KAMINSKY They got good looks, drive and dished under the hoop and hit some 3s and then when we had to foul th...
LARRY KLUKAS The free throws were just not falling. We knew we had to make a few to make it a two-possession game...
JACK BLAYNEY It was a close game all the way. Ryan hit two big free throws to ice it.
GUY ISABELLE It was a good game for us to get everyone into the game and play them in different positions. We hav...
TIM HASKINS She hit those two threes back-to-back. Again, we hit the panic button and we didn't have to. We hung...
BRANDON BAKKEN We suited up eight girls for the contest and those eight played their hearts out. Early foul trouble...
COREY PARISH (Making more free throws) would have changed the complexion of the game. Hopefully we can learn some...
SCOTT COLLIE I've coached 26 years, and he (Meyer) shoots the ball as well (as anyone I've seen). We do shoot the...
BOB KRIZANCIC We wanted to come out and get this first game. That was our main focus coming in to the game. Now we...
FLIP MURRAY We did what we wanted to do. We wanted to get their big guys in foul trouble and attack them to get ...
LEWIS JACKSON Those were big foul shots. We weren't up by that much and he just kept walking up there and making f...
CHAD AMBUEHL We did make our free throws. We went at them and made them foul us. We got the ball inside, we didn'...
GARY TURCOTT These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a coup...
CHAD ALLAN We try to get in their shorts on defense. Whoever we're playing, it doesn't matter who it is. We jus...
LAUREN WITHERSPOON Our game plan was to go back to the triangle-and-two that we used when we beat them last time and ob...
JON CARROLL We get to a point in games where we go into lulls. We had two today both at the start of quarters (s...
MIKE FRITCH I told them before the game, defense and foul shots were going to win the game, and they proved me r...
DEBBIE SKELLY Free throws have actually gone well the last couple of weeks. Tonight, I don't know what it was at a...
ERIC FLEMING We talk a lot about rebounding with Troyer, and he feels good about it. If he doesn't get the reboun...
DAN GUNN Luckily we stepped up and made some big free-throws. ... We've had some games where [free-throws] ha...
CONNIE WEST It was almost a mirror image of last week's game when they matched up. Last week they got the win an...
RUSS ADAMS We played a much cleaner game. We did not force as many turnovers as we should have, but we dominate...
COACH KIMBERLY EAST They sent five guys to the boards. We knew that as long as we could get the rebound, we would have a...
GAVIN GRANT For them to shoot 28 free throws was the difference in the ballgame. I think we played pretty well a...
WILLIE MARYLAND We shot free throws well at the end of the game. Kendra stepped up and that was huge for us. When no...
DENA SIEVERS We did a great job down the stretch shooting free throws. What can you say about Trey Wright. He is ...
RON WATSON It was a good game by both teams. They jumped out ahead of us early. And then we came back. But we j...
DON MOORE He throws a lot of strikes. And the pitches we did get to hit, we didn't do anything with them.
JUAN PIERRE Free throws always win games. Toward the end of the game, when it became crunch time, we hit some bi...
DANIEL DILLON Mandy has done a good job of being near the strike zone. She was throwing good enough pitches to get...
DONOVAN NELSON I hesitate to say there was a letdown, since we did have two solid practices (after the Northwest Ca...
DAVE BOSSO We knew it would be a defensive game tonight. The last time we played Nevada at our place it was a t...
JANICE RICHARD
KELLY JONES After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it...
CARL MATTEI When we go to the basket and get in a situation where they have to foul us, we shoot pressure free t...
DALE NEIBAUER We just couldn't make a play to get over the hump. They just made enough plays to weather the storm....
JEFF MCDONALD We just couldn't make a shot. We talked about it before the game, we had to make shots. I figured th...
GREG OVERSTREET Eddie was disappointed that he missed those free throws but I told him that we wouldn't have had tha...
BRIAN ELLIS We missed (seven) throws for the game. They missed two. The game boils down to free throws, plain an...
JOE BLINE After they got past the shock part of the press, then they started breaking it pretty easily. So we ...
KEITH ANDREWS We made all those free throws, but we missed the two most important ones at the end. Then we didn't ...
CAROLYN WRIGHT He had a tremendous defensive rebound and they fouled him. He had missed his last three free throws,...
GARY PIPPEN You just never know. We knew they were going to foul us and we had to hit our free throws and we did...
CONNIE WEST He (Ryan Hawn) throws well and we were lucky to hit the ball early and score a couple of runs. We pu...
DAVID TREECE We wanted more movement with the ball. We only had fourteen free throws, so we didn't get to the fou...
NATE MCMILLAN I thought we had a chance. You hold a team to 36 percent shooting, you rebound with them, you get mo...
BUD CHILDERS We got behind and had to foul them, and they nailed their free throws. We cut a 17-point lead down.
BOB REED Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I thi...
ERNESTO ARREDONDO We have to be really consistent and do the fundamental things well, like play good defense, rebound ...
CHARLES PATTILLO We were able to overcome some first-half foul trouble. They made a lot of free throws and were able ...
BRIAN RICCI This was a big win and we now control our own destiny to win district. Free throws were the differen...
ALAN BARTON And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH That was a real killer. That broke our back. If we get that rebound and come down and score, it's a ...
AL KLUNICK My mom always says free throws win games and that's what it came down to. They made their free throw...
ANDY MANGIN It (foul trouble) may have been a key in the second half. But we didn't shoot hardly any free throws...
CURT FREDRICKSON We let them have too many free throws. How can you win a game when you give them that many opportuni...
JENI HOPKINS They did what we wanted to do. They got us in foul trouble and they got to the line and made free th...
CLAYTON RANDALL Alston is tough. I was disappointed we let them get out like that, but we fought back.
LYNN WASHOWICH They were a physical, tough team. Those were two teams getting after it and playing aggressive. We d...
JAMIE DIXON The pressure was on. He knew if he didn't make them and they come down and score, it's over, and tha...
FRANK MORETTI We played a triangle-and-two the last eight minutes of the game, and they didn't score.
STEVE MERFELD
By far, this is our biggest win of the year, especially the way we played down the stretch. We won a... LEBRON JAMES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... The difference was they didn't get to the line too much. The last time (at Bellingham), they got 30-...
JEFF HIRONAKA We work on them hard enough. We ought to be decent. That's the way the game goes. You have to shoot ...
FLOYD GRIFFIN We wanted to get them in foul trouble. We thought if we kept attacking the basket the way we did in ...
JAMES LANCASTER We were trying to go aggressively to the basket and I felt like we were doing that. But we just coul...
MATT BOWLING We fought. We battled. We stuck to our game plan and stuck together. We did all that and still came ...
TIM WELSH Our free throws really hurt us bad. We had chances to win the game at the end, but we couldn't knock...
JENNIFER LONG Those two guys, Florence and Flannery, were outstanding on both sides of the ball. We ask them to bl...
DAN BURON Two of the things that really hurt us was that slow start and our free throws. We only made 10 of 22...
ED COSTLEY At the four minute mark I figured we had the lead so let's just get the win and get out of here. Our...
CLIFF TONEY It was a scrappy game. I was really pleased with the last five minutes. I thought our execution was ...
BILL DREIKOSEN Our kids battled admirably. But we had too many unforced turnovers, and we would miss two free throw...
CHARLIE HOOD We let the game get close by missing free throws in the fourth quarter. We were lucky to pull out th...
BOB MONAHAN They hit 23 of 26 free throws and that was the difference. They just don't miss from the foul line.
JOEL RANKIN All night, we were trying to get the ball over their defenders and have (Harris) or (Engel) run it d...
JEFF MARTIN That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ...
DEREK THOMAS We get a technical foul that's very deserving. That was the end of the game. After the technical we ...
BEAU THOMPSON Larger than the free throws was the backside rebound she got.
BILL TOMSICH Hopefully we'll learn from this and get better. You've got to make free throws to close out games an...
GRANT MCCASLAND In a close game like this, you're battling and you can't afford turnovers and allow them to score. W...
AL HARRINGTON Besides free throws and taking some unnecessary shots at the end of the game, I thought they played ...
DEB BABER All of our post players fouled out in the overtime. We had to foul on the inside, and their guys hit...
JASON RUSSELL Being able to hold off Nixon's runs was the difference. They (Nixon) can shoot the ball. They'd hit ...
FRANK GONZALEZ That last game, we didn't give it to them, they earned the right to go on. We lost the last game by ...
JULIE WELLS They did what we asked them to do. We had to get off to a good start and control the tempo. And we w...
ALONZO SLEDGE We made our free throws late in the game and that was big.
JOEL SULLIVAN That ices games for us. We've got great shooters, but we knew they were going to foul us at the end....
HENRY UHEGWU I thought the difference in the game were the little things, especially the free throws on both ends...
GUY SHAVERS That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a fl...
LOUIS WHORTON We know they have a nice point guard. We have to contain him. We have to make them take tough shots ...
BRANDON ADAIR If it wasn't for free throws we would have won the game.
MARCUS GRANT We fouled a lot and they made the free throws. I think (it) was over-aggressiveness. We stressed bei...
DAVE BEEBE He knows how to get to the free throw line and he knows how to get people to foul him.
COREY BELSER We started strong in the first quarter. In that last quarter, we could not make our free throws and ...
BILL BUTHORN Their zone hurt us, especially our post players. It took them a long time to adjust. That, and we mi...
JANET ELEAZAR We got in a little foul trouble, but it was good to get other players in the game and hold the lead.
ZAC DAVIS There's no question that at time [the technical foul] put us in control of the game. We were able to...
JEFF KAMINSKY They got good looks, drive and dished under the hoop and hit some 3s and then when we had to foul th...
LARRY KLUKAS The free throws were just not falling. We knew we had to make a few to make it a two-possession game...
JACK BLAYNEY It was a close game all the way. Ryan hit two big free throws to ice it.
GUY ISABELLE It was a good game for us to get everyone into the game and play them in different positions. We hav...
TIM HASKINS She hit those two threes back-to-back. Again, we hit the panic button and we didn't have to. We hung...
BRANDON BAKKEN We suited up eight girls for the contest and those eight played their hearts out. Early foul trouble...
COREY PARISH (Making more free throws) would have changed the complexion of the game. Hopefully we can learn some...
SCOTT COLLIE I've coached 26 years, and he (Meyer) shoots the ball as well (as anyone I've seen). We do shoot the...
BOB KRIZANCIC We wanted to come out and get this first game. That was our main focus coming in to the game. Now we...
FLIP MURRAY We did what we wanted to do. We wanted to get their big guys in foul trouble and attack them to get ...
LEWIS JACKSON Those were big foul shots. We weren't up by that much and he just kept walking up there and making f...
CHAD AMBUEHL We did make our free throws. We went at them and made them foul us. We got the ball inside, we didn'...
GARY TURCOTT These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a coup...
CHAD ALLAN We try to get in their shorts on defense. Whoever we're playing, it doesn't matter who it is. We jus...
LAUREN WITHERSPOON Our game plan was to go back to the triangle-and-two that we used when we beat them last time and ob...
JON CARROLL We get to a point in games where we go into lulls. We had two today both at the start of quarters (s...
MIKE FRITCH I told them before the game, defense and foul shots were going to win the game, and they proved me r...
DEBBIE SKELLY Free throws have actually gone well the last couple of weeks. Tonight, I don't know what it was at a...
ERIC FLEMING We talk a lot about rebounding with Troyer, and he feels good about it. If he doesn't get the reboun...
DAN GUNN Luckily we stepped up and made some big free-throws. ... We've had some games where [free-throws] ha...
CONNIE WEST It was almost a mirror image of last week's game when they matched up. Last week they got the win an...
RUSS ADAMS We played a much cleaner game. We did not force as many turnovers as we should have, but we dominate...
COACH KIMBERLY EAST They sent five guys to the boards. We knew that as long as we could get the rebound, we would have a...
GAVIN GRANT For them to shoot 28 free throws was the difference in the ballgame. I think we played pretty well a...
WILLIE MARYLAND We shot free throws well at the end of the game. Kendra stepped up and that was huge for us. When no...
DENA SIEVERS We did a great job down the stretch shooting free throws. What can you say about Trey Wright. He is ...
RON WATSON It was a good game by both teams. They jumped out ahead of us early. And then we came back. But we j...
DON MOORE He throws a lot of strikes. And the pitches we did get to hit, we didn't do anything with them.
JUAN PIERRE Free throws always win games. Toward the end of the game, when it became crunch time, we hit some bi...
DANIEL DILLON Mandy has done a good job of being near the strike zone. She was throwing good enough pitches to get...
DONOVAN NELSON I hesitate to say there was a letdown, since we did have two solid practices (after the Northwest Ca...
DAVE BOSSO We knew it would be a defensive game tonight. The last time we played Nevada at our place it was a t...
JANICE RICHARD
