We won the conference championship, made it to the Upper State semifinals and won two playoff games at home. Our players deserve the credit because they worked hard and played as a team.

Just a lot of head games with myself. It took me a little longer, but it definitely paid off. ... I think it really helped my defensive game, especially trying to contain some of those forwards.

We're tied to a 10-game schedule and the dome date (the Show-Me Bowl games in St. Louis on Thanksgiving weekend),

The only thing we could want more is to have these two games at home. Since we didn't take care of it at home earlier in the year, we have to find the fortitude to do it on the road now.

It's not a good situation that we are in. Everybody knows how important these next four games are at home. It might be our season. That's the way I look at it. I thought we started playing better in the last two games. It's just that the results are not there.

We've dictated the game with all our home games recently, barring the D.C. one. I think against this team it's going to present a good opportunity to show some good offensive soccer and put them under a lot of pressure and kind of redeem ourselves for losing to them earlier in the season.