Gianna will have to carry us next year. |
I stressed to my team that they had to play 32 minutes. Against a good team like [St. Pete Catholic], you can't have breakdowns. Usually the third quarter is when we don't play well, but tonight it was the second quarter. That was the difference in the game. |
I thought our defense played well in the first half. In the second half, St. Pete Catholic just executed better than us. That's why they won the game. |
I told the girls that Tampa Catholic always comes to play in the postseason no matter what we did against them in the regular season. I wanted to remind them of what happened two years ago. It was the same situation. |
It says a lot about our district that we have two teams playing in the region final. |
She's easy to find because she's always in the gym. She doesn't take any time off. I called her the other day, and she was in the weight room. I told her it's okay to take a week off and rest, but she doesn't want to. |
That really is a tough place to play. The gym is dark and the student body packs the stands. It's like a madhouse in there. We need our fans to come out and offset some of that. |
They're so much bigger than we are and they can just shoot over us. We tried to double them when they caught it to try to take them out of the game. |
This is a classic David and Goliath match up. We've played three good quarters each time and then we'll have a breakdown in a quarter. We'll play poorly for a two or three-minute spurt, and we can't recover. |
We couldn't overcome their size advantage. We couldn't control the boards on either side. We only got one shot on our end and they had several second-chance points on their end. |
We have a small lineup and we live and die by the 3. We weren't able to hit enough of them tonight. |
We just want to keep winning and move on. I'm not at all interested in being the last team standing in the county; I want to be the last one standing in the state. |
We like getting away. There's no pressure for us on the road. |