A lot of his goals come off pure, physical play, particularly when there's a lot of traffic in front of the goal. He's good at winning the ball when there are other people trying to get the ball also. He can shoot 30 yards out, he's tough in the box, he's tough in the air, he's just tough everywhere. |
Ben has had two wonderful games this week. He always plays great defense, but he's added offense. |
Bryan has enjoyed much success on the soccer field because he is a complete player ? a terrific goal scorer, but also the team leader in assists. He has a wonderful work ethic and is a great example of how well balanced and well rounded a teen can be. |
Bryan is probably the best offensive player that I've coached. I would say he's comparable to the best that Brentwood has produced. |
He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd. |
He's been a rock for us the last three years. When you have a guy that good, you build a team around him, particularly on the offensive end of the field, and that's what we've done. |
He's made three or four goals in the last three years that I need to see that again on tape before I can believe it. He's had a couple of jaw-dropping goals from impossible angles and banana shots. He's done some pretty bizarre things that turned out to be really good. Everybody just stands there and shakes their heads. |
It was a gutsy team effort. Our Central Districts reps, Shane (Wilson) and Luke (Donovan) performed well at the top of the order and our women put in a good effort too. |
Often he will get double-teamed, triple-teamed and he's very adept at passing the ball off. He's our assist leader for the last three years also. |
The actual jackpot was $87.9 million. |
The district is on our mind. We want to have our two best practices and play our best game of the season Friday (hosting Spearfish). I want us to think of nothing else but playing Spearfish for the next three days. |
The last four or five games against them have been super games. We lost to them 1-0 in the regular season, and it was a terrific game. The season before it was a 0-0 tie, so we've had really close games. There's a lot of intensity and emotions in these games. |
The main three for Brookings, they got the ball to them. The rest of the team worked to get them open. Their rebounding was intense at times and they'd look to get the ball up court. |
The one thing we're not doing well enough is scoring goals. We'll get 25, 30 shots in a game and out of those there's probably seven or eight that you wonder how in the world they didn't go in. If you don't finish, at the end of the year you're going to be in trouble. |
This is huge for this group. This is their first GDC win on the road this season. |