We have some really amazing runners - girls who, once they get going, can just blow by people, and that will help us a lot against Ohio State. But we've also been working all year on defense, and we've gotten really good at it. Our goal-line defense was really good all year, better than I've seen it since I've been here.

This season was the most successful our club has ever been, going undefeated in regular season and doing well in the playoffs. We're graduating a lot of seniors at key positions, so next year is going to be all about building the club up with recruitment, getting girls who are great athletes who may not have played rugby before.

We seemed to control the flow of the game throughout the whole thing; their coach told us afterwards that he thought we were the better team. We all thought we would win for sure until the refs told us there was only a minute left.

Playing in the rain is like playing with a greased watermelon. The ball got really hard to hold on to, and it seemed like neither team could run more than two or three plays without turning it over.

We knew we weren't going to the Elite Eight or the Final Four, so Sunday was all about pride. We wanted to come out and show people that we are a better team than the score indicated Saturday.

Southern California has been the weakest region for awhile, but that could be good for us, because our opponents won't expect us to be as good as we are. We'll be able to come out and catch people by surprise.