We decided to step it up a notch. We're pretty confident, and after we struggled in the first game, we decided that we needed to step up and run the offense. The girls do so well when we get passes.

We've worked really hard,

During preseason we looked up at the banner in the gym and realized that we needed to start putting numbers back on it, ... It was pretty pathetic.

[That quest started when they tried to leave New Orleans Sunday afternoon. Hurricane refugee Angela Edwards says,] By the time night came, the storm was pretty much slapping us on the back of the head, the rain was coming, the wind. ... We tried from Lake Charles to Beaumont and we couldn't find a thing. We slept in a park with our children and my 75-year-old dad and all our animals.

There are just some people who don't believe women can do this until they watch us play a game, ... It's not a watered-down version. It's real football.

They used to get their medications. Now they can't.