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KELLY JONES Our defense wasn't doing as well as in the first half. I got the team together and said we had to st...
DANA MITCHELL We were almost tasting it. Girls that went through it took it pretty hard. It wasn't easy to come ou...
MELISSA ELMER It's hard to get into a rhythm, but the guys coming off the bench have to be prepared. The game does...
BRIAN GRANT All three games have been great games. I think we finished real strong. After we cut it to one in th...
DEAN BERARDO I started a freshman, three sophomore and a junior and we just took the second-place team close to t...
LANCE BAYLIS We had people step up and some people go down, and it was hard-fought all the way to the end. It was...
AMY RYMER We're definitely short-handed, but I think it's just motivation for everyone who is healthy to step ...
JUDY VOGT We went in tied, but we knew that we had the game, because she made that crazy 3-pointer. We knew th...
KATIE MURPHY We have been struggling. We let a team get into the game. and when a team goes up on you by 18 point...
JEFF SHAW The fans got silent when she made that shot, it got quiet, it took the air out of their lungs. Every...
JAYENECA BAILEY![]()
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM The team chemistry we had was great. We just haven't had a chance to pull it together on the road, a...
LAUREN POWELL We got off to a great start but just kind of stubbed our toe when they went to that zone defense. Th...
CHARLES SMITH We knew we had a couple of tough losses and we knew we had to come out hard and get some shots on ne...
BEN FRALICK There's been a real good improvement. The biggest thing I told them is not to get down about last we...
JAMIE FREELAND In reality, with the way she plays she could start for us. But the way he have it set up, we really ...
KRISTIE CHRISTIANSEN I think it just shows that we have great players on this team. And when we all play together, differ...
JANA HARRIGAN I know that I will work hard and I will give it my all. I just hope to be a part of a good team. We ...
ANDEE WHITAKER![]()
We're a team. We've played without guys that have been hurt for six weeks. Guys are going to have to...
JASON KIDD We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard c...
CARL LEVIN The feeling on the bench is that we will win when we have the lead in the fourth quarter. It's becau...
JOSH HANSON I thought we were a step off most of the game. We have enough skill players that we took care of it,...
ART WEAVER At times in I felt like we were really out of rhythm and out of sync. Somehow we managed to prevail ...
SUE WALKER Our seniors are going to have to step it up. We have to get the bench talking and we have to get tal...
LYNN MILLER I would prefer obviously that they hadn't gotten injured, but we're a pretty deep team, and the othe...
LEO WEIL It?s a turf field and the ball would get pretty wet. We had to come in and sit on the bench (during ...
MIKE MAYBEN They've been working a long and hard season to make sure that we had that ability to be where we wer...
RON AVERILL We can look back at that and say the injury bug bit us a little, but that's why you have 15 guys on ...
KEVIN ALKIRE![]()
Everyone can train hard when they are feeling good. But it's the days when you're feeling ba...
CHAD LE CLOS The people on the bench, they should be starting, but you can't start more than five at a time. We'v...
COREY BROWN You have to pick up the pieces and pull yourself together. We wanted to make sure we took this chanc...
BECKIE SCOTT Coach stressed in preseason that if we played hard and played together we would be hard to beat. And...
ANTONIO FITZGERALD We are going to need people on the bench to step up. We've had some surprise starters recently. Thos...
JUDE TEMPLE We're never nervous at halftime. We know someone will step up, either a starter or off the bench. We...
BEN WITHERSPOON We had a numbers advantage and I knew we could go at them pretty hard because I can always sub someb...
AMY MANCO We've already talked about next year and how much we want to come back here. We lose a lot and we wi...
CALEB SIMONS I'm happy personally but we have to step it up a notch that's for sure. We need to knuckle down and ...
LEWIS RATCLIFF We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really ...
DON HELLING It creates a problem when you've got foul trouble, but when you're number is called, you've got to b...
BRAD TOMHAVE We know we will have the same mental breakdowns that every team will have, we just have to hope they...
WELDON NELMS It is a tremendous way to come off a loss like we did last weekend and step it up. We just talked ab...
CLINTON SOLOMON Everybody played hard and contributed, and when that happens, it makes it a lot of fun. We have real...
AARON BUSACK I've found it to be extremely hard. I haven't been in this situation in any of my career and I'm sti...
CHELSI WELCH She just continues to come up with big hits. But we got lucky and gutted it out. We had a lot of pla...
DICK MANDELLA We've had some tough losses in the last couple of weeks. We just decided to go into this tournament ...
BETH LAUNIERE We don't do a good job when we have a team down. We have to step on the gas and close them out.
JOE NIEUWENDYK We didn't have anyone step up and want to handle the ball with Allie on the bench. Even when we had ...
JUDIE MASON We've got three or four guys coming off the bench that play good defense and pressure their guards a...
ANDREW FRANK We needed to pick it up. We needed to come together as a team and find some team chemistry, not just...
AARON COOK We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just th...
AARON BOONE We are looking forward to Saturday's game as we will not only have a full, team but we will even hav...
CORY COOK It was gutsy. There's another word I could use for that, but it's gutsy to come down and have the pa...
CHRIS DRURY We just come together as a team. We try as hard as we can to score if we have the ball, and on defen...
KYLE ENDICOTT At that point, I was just baffled; I couldn't believe it. I told the guys that they needed nine runs...
BRETT MACKEY If a kid fails a drug test, he's off the team. But even after that happens - he's off the team and o...
TONY NICOLINO It comes down to wrapping up. There were some plays there we didn't wrap up. We set our stage for wh...
ANDREW CONNOR We got some girls in foul trouble and they had to sit down. We needed the whole bench tonight. It wa...
JOSH TARRELL I feel like we took another step ahead. We hustled. We don't get rewarded for it. But as a team we'v...
LUOL DENG When we come to play with enthusiasm, and we're all together, we're a pretty good team.
JAROD INGERSOLL![]()
This was a gutsy win. We went down five in overtime, and Chris Taft really took hold, he just took t...
JOHN DYER![]()
Look, they just went ahead. The math showed we have to win our final four, and they have to go 2-3 i...
CORY LIDLE We just didn't come out with any energy whatsoever. It wasn't one or two guys, it was most of the te...
PAT MCNAMARA I think we just assumed that Snow wasn't going to come out and play as hard as they did. By halftime...
DEXTER IRVIN It makes it hard, because we know we can win the games. We just have to keep our heads up and keep o...
DERON WASHINGTON The key to the game for us will be blocking their blitzes. We're going to have to step it up on defe...
DANIEL MALY When we took Kenyon and Carmelo off the court in the fourth quarter it wasn't pretty.
GEORGE KARL It was good to get home. I took a lot of pictures, but it doesn't justify any of the devastation tha...
ALLISON GIBNEY She's a leader just by how hard she plays. She has more confidence after taking her off the point. S...
ROY RAYMOND The team did not play up to our potential. Last week we took a step forward and against West Noble w...
DOUG STOFFEL Our press was effective first half; we just didn't score any points off it. We wore them down in the...
CLARK PLICHTA We just have to get our concentration back and get our focus back. We have to step it up. We catch b...
MARLON WHITE Coach really didn't have to tell us anything, we just knew it was time to step up. As a team, we sho...
ANGELICA SAILS We're young. We have one senior that starts and one that comes in off the bench. There's a lot of ju...
JAY FREESE We didn't really have it together at the beginning of the second half, ... But we stepped it up afte...
SEAN KELLY I told our players that someone needed to step up and make up the difference defensively, and our te...
BRUCE GILLIAM It was a big blow. We had to pull it together and play hard.
JUSTIN ORR![]()
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We were a little (ticked) off. We let it slip, and that is one thing you can't do when you're up aga...
RYAN GETZLAF We will have a hard time guarding him in the post. And when we sag and double-team, certainly that w...
STEVE FISHER I thought our defense and our bench really stepped up tonight. We had guys step up and play big and ...
DOUG WAGEMESTER We made it hard on ourselves again. We let them come back... but we battled back and got the win. We...
JANNE NIINIMAA We played really good as a team. We always pull together when we need to, and rely on each other wel...
AMANDA ALLEN I'm very disappointed that we will have to play without Ashley. But at this point in the season, we ...
CINDY PIPER [The new linebackers will have their hands full in September whether Brown and Warren are on their g...
GERARD WARREN We know that we can play with any team. We have great pitching, fielding and hitting. It just needs ...
JACKIE DEMPSEY If it comes down to that, it'll be left up to a coin toss. We just hope it doesn't come to that.
DARREN HOTELLING We know our roles. Our roles are to go out there and turn it up. We look forward to it. I mean, we c...
JUSTIN BERRY When it happened on the other relay, we were all pretty upset. But we just talked about it and we re...
ROBERT BALDWIN It means a lot. We have been struggling lately. People tell us that wins will come, that we are a yo...
JOSH DOLLARD We kind of took a chance, but we knew they were coming up real hard when we kind of ran our short ro...
ADRIAN REESE It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges ...
PAULA WHITE It took a little longer then we would have liked for the team to come together. But they are startin...
BRIAN PHELAN We are at our best when we have that balance. We always talk about the importance of being a team. I...
DENA SIEVERS We have guys that we think can step up, and will step up, and will have to step up with the loss of ...
DARCY REGIER I hope so, ... It isn't as if we're looking for things to have extended debate on. We need to work t...
HARRY REID It was really nice working with her, ... She's a very sweet little girl. We had a lot of rehearsal t...
JENNIFER CONNELLY We wanted to go up and down the court real fast, but it didn't end up happening. We just had to make...
MARTIN CLEVELAND She's really been wonderful for us, and she's made such a big difference coming off the bench. It's ...
BOB HALLBERG We definitely have come together as a team. We just want to prove to people that we can win this reg...
JAKE ORCHARD
KELLY JONES Our defense wasn't doing as well as in the first half. I got the team together and said we had to st...
DANA MITCHELL We were almost tasting it. Girls that went through it took it pretty hard. It wasn't easy to come ou...
MELISSA ELMER It's hard to get into a rhythm, but the guys coming off the bench have to be prepared. The game does...
BRIAN GRANT All three games have been great games. I think we finished real strong. After we cut it to one in th...
DEAN BERARDO I started a freshman, three sophomore and a junior and we just took the second-place team close to t...
LANCE BAYLIS We had people step up and some people go down, and it was hard-fought all the way to the end. It was...
AMY RYMER We're definitely short-handed, but I think it's just motivation for everyone who is healthy to step ...
JUDY VOGT We went in tied, but we knew that we had the game, because she made that crazy 3-pointer. We knew th...
KATIE MURPHY We have been struggling. We let a team get into the game. and when a team goes up on you by 18 point...
JEFF SHAW The fans got silent when she made that shot, it got quiet, it took the air out of their lungs. Every...
JAYENECA BAILEY
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM The team chemistry we had was great. We just haven't had a chance to pull it together on the road, a...
LAUREN POWELL We got off to a great start but just kind of stubbed our toe when they went to that zone defense. Th...
CHARLES SMITH We knew we had a couple of tough losses and we knew we had to come out hard and get some shots on ne...
BEN FRALICK There's been a real good improvement. The biggest thing I told them is not to get down about last we...
JAMIE FREELAND In reality, with the way she plays she could start for us. But the way he have it set up, we really ...
KRISTIE CHRISTIANSEN I think it just shows that we have great players on this team. And when we all play together, differ...
JANA HARRIGAN I know that I will work hard and I will give it my all. I just hope to be a part of a good team. We ...
ANDEE WHITAKER
We're a team. We've played without guys that have been hurt for six weeks. Guys are going to have to... JASON KIDD We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard c...
CARL LEVIN The feeling on the bench is that we will win when we have the lead in the fourth quarter. It's becau...
JOSH HANSON I thought we were a step off most of the game. We have enough skill players that we took care of it,...
ART WEAVER At times in I felt like we were really out of rhythm and out of sync. Somehow we managed to prevail ...
SUE WALKER Our seniors are going to have to step it up. We have to get the bench talking and we have to get tal...
LYNN MILLER I would prefer obviously that they hadn't gotten injured, but we're a pretty deep team, and the othe...
LEO WEIL It?s a turf field and the ball would get pretty wet. We had to come in and sit on the bench (during ...
MIKE MAYBEN They've been working a long and hard season to make sure that we had that ability to be where we wer...
RON AVERILL We can look back at that and say the injury bug bit us a little, but that's why you have 15 guys on ...
KEVIN ALKIRE
Everyone can train hard when they are feeling good. But it's the days when you're feeling ba... CHAD LE CLOS The people on the bench, they should be starting, but you can't start more than five at a time. We'v...
COREY BROWN You have to pick up the pieces and pull yourself together. We wanted to make sure we took this chanc...
BECKIE SCOTT Coach stressed in preseason that if we played hard and played together we would be hard to beat. And...
ANTONIO FITZGERALD We are going to need people on the bench to step up. We've had some surprise starters recently. Thos...
JUDE TEMPLE We're never nervous at halftime. We know someone will step up, either a starter or off the bench. We...
BEN WITHERSPOON We had a numbers advantage and I knew we could go at them pretty hard because I can always sub someb...
AMY MANCO We've already talked about next year and how much we want to come back here. We lose a lot and we wi...
CALEB SIMONS I'm happy personally but we have to step it up a notch that's for sure. We need to knuckle down and ...
LEWIS RATCLIFF We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really ...
DON HELLING It creates a problem when you've got foul trouble, but when you're number is called, you've got to b...
BRAD TOMHAVE We know we will have the same mental breakdowns that every team will have, we just have to hope they...
WELDON NELMS It is a tremendous way to come off a loss like we did last weekend and step it up. We just talked ab...
CLINTON SOLOMON Everybody played hard and contributed, and when that happens, it makes it a lot of fun. We have real...
AARON BUSACK I've found it to be extremely hard. I haven't been in this situation in any of my career and I'm sti...
CHELSI WELCH She just continues to come up with big hits. But we got lucky and gutted it out. We had a lot of pla...
DICK MANDELLA We've had some tough losses in the last couple of weeks. We just decided to go into this tournament ...
BETH LAUNIERE We don't do a good job when we have a team down. We have to step on the gas and close them out.
JOE NIEUWENDYK We didn't have anyone step up and want to handle the ball with Allie on the bench. Even when we had ...
JUDIE MASON We've got three or four guys coming off the bench that play good defense and pressure their guards a...
ANDREW FRANK We needed to pick it up. We needed to come together as a team and find some team chemistry, not just...
AARON COOK We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just th...
AARON BOONE We are looking forward to Saturday's game as we will not only have a full, team but we will even hav...
CORY COOK It was gutsy. There's another word I could use for that, but it's gutsy to come down and have the pa...
CHRIS DRURY We just come together as a team. We try as hard as we can to score if we have the ball, and on defen...
KYLE ENDICOTT At that point, I was just baffled; I couldn't believe it. I told the guys that they needed nine runs...
BRETT MACKEY If a kid fails a drug test, he's off the team. But even after that happens - he's off the team and o...
TONY NICOLINO It comes down to wrapping up. There were some plays there we didn't wrap up. We set our stage for wh...
ANDREW CONNOR We got some girls in foul trouble and they had to sit down. We needed the whole bench tonight. It wa...
JOSH TARRELL I feel like we took another step ahead. We hustled. We don't get rewarded for it. But as a team we'v...
LUOL DENG When we come to play with enthusiasm, and we're all together, we're a pretty good team.
JAROD INGERSOLL
This was a gutsy win. We went down five in overtime, and Chris Taft really took hold, he just took t... JOHN DYER
Look, they just went ahead. The math showed we have to win our final four, and they have to go 2-3 i... CORY LIDLE We just didn't come out with any energy whatsoever. It wasn't one or two guys, it was most of the te...
PAT MCNAMARA I think we just assumed that Snow wasn't going to come out and play as hard as they did. By halftime...
DEXTER IRVIN It makes it hard, because we know we can win the games. We just have to keep our heads up and keep o...
DERON WASHINGTON The key to the game for us will be blocking their blitzes. We're going to have to step it up on defe...
DANIEL MALY When we took Kenyon and Carmelo off the court in the fourth quarter it wasn't pretty.
GEORGE KARL It was good to get home. I took a lot of pictures, but it doesn't justify any of the devastation tha...
ALLISON GIBNEY She's a leader just by how hard she plays. She has more confidence after taking her off the point. S...
ROY RAYMOND The team did not play up to our potential. Last week we took a step forward and against West Noble w...
DOUG STOFFEL Our press was effective first half; we just didn't score any points off it. We wore them down in the...
CLARK PLICHTA We just have to get our concentration back and get our focus back. We have to step it up. We catch b...
MARLON WHITE Coach really didn't have to tell us anything, we just knew it was time to step up. As a team, we sho...
ANGELICA SAILS We're young. We have one senior that starts and one that comes in off the bench. There's a lot of ju...
JAY FREESE We didn't really have it together at the beginning of the second half, ... But we stepped it up afte...
SEAN KELLY I told our players that someone needed to step up and make up the difference defensively, and our te...
BRUCE GILLIAM It was a big blow. We had to pull it together and play hard.
JUSTIN ORR
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We were a little (ticked) off. We let it slip, and that is one thing you can't do when you're up aga...
RYAN GETZLAF We will have a hard time guarding him in the post. And when we sag and double-team, certainly that w...
STEVE FISHER I thought our defense and our bench really stepped up tonight. We had guys step up and play big and ...
DOUG WAGEMESTER We made it hard on ourselves again. We let them come back... but we battled back and got the win. We...
JANNE NIINIMAA We played really good as a team. We always pull together when we need to, and rely on each other wel...
AMANDA ALLEN I'm very disappointed that we will have to play without Ashley. But at this point in the season, we ...
CINDY PIPER [The new linebackers will have their hands full in September whether Brown and Warren are on their g...
GERARD WARREN We know that we can play with any team. We have great pitching, fielding and hitting. It just needs ...
JACKIE DEMPSEY If it comes down to that, it'll be left up to a coin toss. We just hope it doesn't come to that.
DARREN HOTELLING We know our roles. Our roles are to go out there and turn it up. We look forward to it. I mean, we c...
JUSTIN BERRY When it happened on the other relay, we were all pretty upset. But we just talked about it and we re...
ROBERT BALDWIN It means a lot. We have been struggling lately. People tell us that wins will come, that we are a yo...
JOSH DOLLARD We kind of took a chance, but we knew they were coming up real hard when we kind of ran our short ro...
ADRIAN REESE It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges ...
PAULA WHITE It took a little longer then we would have liked for the team to come together. But they are startin...
BRIAN PHELAN We are at our best when we have that balance. We always talk about the importance of being a team. I...
DENA SIEVERS We have guys that we think can step up, and will step up, and will have to step up with the loss of ...
DARCY REGIER I hope so, ... It isn't as if we're looking for things to have extended debate on. We need to work t...
HARRY REID It was really nice working with her, ... She's a very sweet little girl. We had a lot of rehearsal t...
JENNIFER CONNELLY We wanted to go up and down the court real fast, but it didn't end up happening. We just had to make...
MARTIN CLEVELAND She's really been wonderful for us, and she's made such a big difference coming off the bench. It's ...
BOB HALLBERG We definitely have come together as a team. We just want to prove to people that we can win this reg...
JAKE ORCHARD
