It was a good team win. |
It was great for our girls' soccer team to do so well, but it did slow our team's progress a little bit early in the season. |
Last year it was a great battle and it was a close game between two solid teams. Hopefully, what we learned from that game last year, we tried to incorporate all season. |
Maybe that was my fault, in making the girls think too much about what we were going to do. Instead of trying to play the way we played all year, maybe I put too many ideas in their minds, and we weren't able to stop them. |
No matter how far you go in anything, you have to take that first step and, sometimes, that first step can be a big one. They hadn't played for two weeks, but there's no monkey on their back ... and they came in really relaxed. |
Our girls came out defensively and hustled. We played with a lot of energy on defense and made things difficult for Ford City. |
Out of those eight looks, I don't think many of them were forced shots. The biggest thing was that they weren't falling and, to be honest, I was looking up at the scoreboard and thinking we could be down a lot more. |
People always ask me what the difference is between last year's club and this year's and this year's we have other people that can step up. We are a little more patient on offense and we can get other people the ball a little bit better. |
She stepped up big. In the second quarter, she got into a flow. She felt confident and hit some big shots. |
That has to be credit to our girls. |
The layoff is always hard and we felt as if we were rusty in the first half as well, and it took us a while to get through that. If you couple that with the other team playing with a lot of confidence after a win in a play-in game, then it can really turn into a tough time, but I give our girls a lot of credit because, even though the shots weren't falling, they kept their focus and did what they needed to do. |
The states is a different tournament, and we have to enjoy this (through the weekend and) maybe Monday, but we'll get back to our focus on the next step. This is great, and this is fantastic for these girls, and it's a memory they'll have their whole lives, and then you look at the states, and you look at that as a whole other tournament where you're going against the best teams from across the state of Pennsylvania. |
They were doing a good job on her so that she couldn't get a good look or a good driving lane. They knew, as soon as she got the ball, I saw there were three or four people around her looking to cut off the driving lanes. |
They were looking to pressure us and they were looking to attack us offensively. The thing that they did really well in the first half was hit their shots, so I was really pleased (near) the end of the first quarter to be tied. |
They're one and we're two, but we're never worried about papers and rankings and that kind of stuff. The more important thing is that those are just people's opinions, noted people, but we just want to go out there and play. |