We knew that sooner or later our shots would start falling. Sometimes kids get frustrated. It was good to see them bounce back after the first quarter.

After the coin toss, third was the best we could expect. I'm happy with that. (But) these coin tosses are ridiculous. You don't need a tie-breaker. You send intelligent coaches in there, and they should decide who the best team is.

It's so hard to make these kind of runs. I told the girls, 'Don't take this for granted.' It's hard to sustain a run this long. I had expectations, but when you get a win like this, you can't help but be so excited.

Those type of things always seem to be big. There's no doubt that eventually played a big role at the end of the game.

You look at every one of those games we've played against them and you can just see the level of play getting bigger and bigger. You see girls diving into the front row. You see teams coming back on one another. That just shows you what these games mean to these girls.

We couldn't get a shot off, then (Gold) hit that 3-pointer right in front of me. We were struggling for points. And Erin stepped out and hit that shot from two feet beyond the (3-point) line.