probably seven or eight teams that can shoot well enough to win. |
She's a more mature player this year. She's able to handle adversity better this year, |
The big deal was, they did anything they wanted to in the second half offensively, and we didn't have an answer for it. |
The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw. |
The conditions at the sectional and state tournament are different. Sometimes pressure does weird things to kids, but they've handled it all year. |
The course was much tougher today because of the wind factor, |
The girls seem to have really turned it up a notch the last five years, ... I think we're getting kids who play golf because they see it as a way they can have success. They're saying, 'I can do this.' |
They still made some, but at least we knew where their shooters were. The first half, we didn't know where they were. |
We didn't have a single stop or rebound in the first quarter. We changed our defense, did a good job of staying in front of the ball and were able to stop their penetration in the second quarter. Our first substitution rotation seemed to help as well. |
We have seven kids (including junior Erica Woodall) who are really close in average, and I think that gives us something a lot of teams don't have, ... This is the first time I've felt we are capable of winning and have a chance to win, and all you want in athletics is a chance. |
We have seven kids (including junior Erica Woodall) who are really close in average, and I think that gives us something a lot of teams don't have. This is the first time I've felt we are capable of winning and have a chance to win, and all you want in athletics is a chance. |
We lost Marisa (Milligan), who set all the records at U High, but all the other eight kids were on the squad last year. |
We won because of our depth, |
When it was time for a player to go, he went. |