To get a game like this under our belts and play hard, to challenge a high-caliber team like Prairie and give them a good run for their money definitely will help us out (today, in a loser-out game against Puyallup). And it says a lot about what we can do next year.

She's a flat-out athlete. She's one of the quickest players on the team. To get her out in transition ahead of the other post players is a huge advantage for us.

I was at the draw and I was looking around for some friendly female faces and I didn't see any.

Kristi is a young leader. She has a very good mind for the game as a sophomore. Offensively, she took the game over, took the ball and finished in the lane. She did a good job of stepping up under the pressure.

We looked at the game tapes. We saw that our spacing was off, and we didn't have good shot selection. We made the corrections that we needed to.

Dunbar had a great first half, scoring with a hand in her face. But we hoped she would wear out with Kingma on her in the second half. I think all our pressure paid off at the end of the game.

Lake Stevens came out tonight and played mistake-free basketball. We committed too many turnovers and missed a lot of shots that we have been making in the past.

She is flat out a great athlete. She is one of the quickest people on the team, so to get her out there in transition, ahead of the other post players has been a huge advantage. ... We're happy to have her here.