We definitely played hard like we always do against Dowling, but we had some mental mistakes and turnovers, dumb shots that kept us from winning.

Tom Salter

Tara King is really on her game right now. We still need to get a couple more perimeter players to knock down shots for us, but Tara did a great job of hitting some big ones.

Tony Dicecco

Every time we play it's like that. It's always just up and down, guys making shots, guys making plays. It doesn't matter what the records are when these teams play.

Larry Herrholtz

They came in and missed a lot of early shots, ... We got it going and set our offense. We kept running and attacking.

Mike Bibby

The difference in the game was as simple as rebounding. In the first half we didn't block out. We forced tough shots, but we gave them three or four opportunities. In the second half we owned the defensive glass and that made a difference because we only had to defend for three or four passes and then we forced tough shots and rebounded the ball.

Russ Bartlett

Things quickly got away from us there in that third quarter. They hit some big threes, and then we started to press and ended up taking a lot of bad shots.

Robb Berger

I think we were nervous and I think we were rushing shots, taking bad shots. It was a combination of things. Just getting that first basket was the hardest thing.

Lynn Bria

Anytime Ozark and Farmington get together it's going to be a battle and it was tonight. I thought we had some great shots early but they didn't fall and it didn't look like we were going to get anything going. But we had a nice run in the third and were able to hang on. We're lucky to get out of here with a win.

Brad Blew

We didn't hit some of the shots that we are used to hitting. It happens. We gave it our all, and that's all we could do.

Alisa Kresge

That one was like an insurance goal for the team. Once we got up 2-0, the whole game changed. We started taking shots right and left, and they started to force things.

Kyle Conrad

We made shots tonight. That's the big difference. I was very pleased with the effort. Fort Bragg is a lot like we are. It could be a 90-point game.

Tom Hoppe

I hit some good shots, ... I got a lot of lucky breaks today, which helped out a lot. Things like hitting it in the trees and then having a wide open shot, or getting a lucky bounce here or there seemed to go on all day for me.

Chris Knight

Erika has been sick and when players who are consistent go through a slump, they go through it a little harder. Erika listened to what we had to say about penetration and using her quickness to get to the rim. She didn't shoot a lot of outside shots and took advantage of being able to get to the hole. That will help her.

Tina Slinker

I thought we got some good looks at the basket. I thought we got some open shots. It turned out we're shooting 3-for-21. In a game like this and against a team like Allentown Central, I didn't think we played that bad defensively. You really have to play good defense when you shoot the ball 3-for-21.

Joe Eckley

Great season, bad night. Offensively, we struggled all night (11-of-53 shooting overall). We just weren't making shots from the outside. There were stretches where we just couldn't make a shot and at this point of the tournament you just can't do that.

Bill Strand

I thought we did a good job on him, but he got hot. We kept a hand in his face, but he just made some big shots for them.

Joel Allen

They were taking good shots. I figured after a while I would touch the ball.

Linwan Euwell

We can point to a number of things. Michael missing those two fouls shots wasn't the rea¬son we lost today.

Brian Beaury

We didn't play well enough to win. It was a situation of playing against the game a little bit. Foul shots is against the game. Open threes is against the game. LIU played well and they beat us, but we lost it, too.

Dave Bike

We lost two players to grades and two others sat out for disciplinary reasons. So we had to shift some players around to new positions. But that's no excuse for only managing three shots on goal.

Mark Herberger

We need to keep coming out and give an effort and try to get a win. You can blame our (15) turnovers, defense, and you can blame Ray also. He hit shots like I can't even explain.

Sebastian Telfair

We know teams are going to try to take away Kristen and Julie on the inside, and we've talked that someone has to step up and knock those shots down. They've done a great job with that. Everybody's been chipping in.

Jamie Ullman

We didn't shoot very well. I thought we had the shots, but didn't knock 'em down.

Dick Heller

Amy is the type of player that is going to get five or six shots a game. She does a great job with the ball, and we do a good job of using her.

Dean Duerst

He is really good on penalty shots. He sold the backhand hard, and made a great move.

Shawn Horcoff

I really normally have four kids that can score. Today, the kids' shots just weren't falling. I thought they did a great job defensively.

Alan Ayers

The kids are almost unselfish to a fault. They sometimes pass on shots they should take.

Tom Weinkauf

I'm still not happy with our work on our feet right now, but a lot of it has had to do with our confidence. We're just not real confident with our shots from some of our younger kids, in particular, and I think that's an area which we're going to get better in in the future.

Tony Canacari

All week Rory has been demonstrating how good he is when he is backed into a corner. I knew he was going to hit some good shots on the back nine and I would have to try and outplay him. It just didn't happen.

Paul O'hanlon

Our defense is a lot better with Sam in the game, because he can block shots and rebound the ball. They're a jump-shooting team, with the exception of Harrington. We just have to get better in all areas defensively.

Maurice Cheeks

We came out really flat. Give them a lot of credit; they made a lot of shots early and they built up a lead. We're notorious for not playing well from behind, and we just couldn't put the ball in the basket.

Tim Doyle

We didn't get the ball out quickly. We were walking it up, so it slowed down. Once we get into half court and they are playing the long zone, there is really nowhere you can go to get quality shots. We were especially stunned by how they changed their defense.

Anthony Morrow

At halftime, I said let's start going around them, creating shots, go inside-out and get stops.

Dave Macedo

We broke down and they made some shots. Iowa played a great game, no question.

Beth Combs

Sometimes we have pressure in the last five minutes and today that happened again. I think everybody is thinking about that. Everybody has to play relaxed and make free throws and hit the open shots. We are professionals.

Andres Nocioni

We missed a whole lot of easy shots in the first half. We talked at halftime, and I think that's when we really turned it around.

Chris Brady

We got some awful good looks. Shots that have been falling for us.

Brent Bartlett

It was a pretty controlled game. There were not a lot of 2-on-1s. There were lots of shots, but I don't think it was wide open.

Miikka Kiprusoff

Of all working screenwriters, I'm a foul shooter, ... I would take any screenwriter on in foul shots.

Charles Koppelman

Southern played good defense, but the opportunities we missed weren't about the defense. Several times we had open shots and just missed. When you miss easy shots against a team like Southern, it comes back to haunt you.

Van Holt

We did a good job at keeping competitive. We hit a couple shots and they missed a couple free throws. Give credit to our kids for never quitting.

Scot Wenzel

Now instead of pressing him to get other guys shots, I'm letting the reins go a little bit. I'm telling him to be a little more aggressive. ... I'm pointing out when he passes up good shots.

Danny Yoshikawa

The White team started out the game slow, played good defense, but couldn't make the shots to come from behind.

Paul Evans

It was a battle back and forth, like a heavyweight fight, with each of us taking our shots. My hat's off to Toledo. Tonight we just fought for it and did the little things a little bit better.

Matt Blair

It stayed pretty much between eight and 10 points. We did have some opportunities, but we ended up turning the ball over and missing some shots down the stretch.

Dave Pettit

They were coming off a lot of screens. ... We got confused and left them with open shots. Leave anybody open, they'll hit.

Patrick Fields

Charles (final two shots) were big. It was like they had taken their best shot and came up short.

Mike Hultz

We had trouble during that first quarter. We had some decent shots that we didn't make. That has been our problem all year — we have a quarter somewhere in the game that always hurts us. But the kids didn't quit, showing a lot of character on their part, and they kept plugging away at it.

Grant Smith

We were getting shots, we just couldn't finish. It's tough to win when you shoot (22 percent). And it seemed like all the balls were going their way. That's just the way it is.

Cheryl Darpel

It's different in college. You're playing smaller guys who are a little bit harder to hit, but out here [in the NHL] it seems like some guys don't expect it sometimes, so I get those shots in when I can. It differs from team to team.

Andrew Alberts

Coming into the game we know that they like to shoot with their right hand. We did a great job making them use their left and they started to get tired and rush shots.

Terry Boe

We just couldn't buy a basket. Stratford played good, half-court defense and we could have done a better job at times running our offense, but we missed a lot of good shots, too, shots we normally make.

Roger Lehman

You can't do anything about those shots that you missed but improve and try not to make those shots again, ... You deal with the present. That past is the past. I think you learn from it; you don't live in it. You take those positive experiences and relate them to what we're trying to do now.

Bob Simmons

Akin has opened up a lot of stuff for us. We've been getting a lot of open shots and we've been knocking them down. The main thing about that zone is hitting shots. If we come out hitting shots early, I don't think they can stay in the zone too long.

Cliff Hammonds

Our goal is to average 80 shots a game and our record is 116. We think that takes a lot of pressure off the shooting percentage. We obviously don't want to miss, but it takes a lot of pressure off our shooters when we take that many shots.

Paul Rozak

I never though that would be a big enough lead. They turned up the intensity there, we missed some shots and they made some.

Ashley Phillips

It was a good game. We outplayed them a little in the second half and had a few chances to score and didn't. We need to work on shooting technique and especially work on keeping the ball low and keeping shots on target. When the ball goes over the cross bar nothing can happen.

Gerry Enigk

We really played well, but I think we can play better. We shot well, hitting 58 percent of our shots, and our defense held them to 27 percent shooting.

Garry Grewe

They made the key baskets when it counted. We had good shots but they just weren't dropping.

Darius Burton

It feels like a loss. We needed a win; a tie didn't help us. We had shots that were there, but we didn't execute well. We couldn't punch it in.

Nathan Almond

That's how college basketball is, ... It's how you perform at the end of the year and how you perform in big-time situations. I like to pride myself on making the big shots when I have to.

Kevin Pittsnogle

We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from those two losses as a team, and I think we showed we can play team basketball.

Dynelle Tadlock

(The difference) was their shooting early. They were really hot and (Goetz) is a real good player. He controlled the game, the tempo and made his foul shots. We knew he was an excellent foul shooter and he proved it.

Ron Palcic

She gets caught on 1-on-1 shots and she shuts them right down. She covers the 18 so well she's the best goalie I've ever coached.

Tyler Renaud

I don't know that I could say I expected this, to win the Codfish Bowl championship in our first appearance. Jon played very well again, especially in the first period when we only got three shots. He's played very well for us all year long. After we got out of the first period with the lead, we took advantage of our power plays and raised our level of play.

John Rolli

They did a really good job on defense. We missed some open shots and I made a key turnover late in the game. It's a situation where we didn't make key plays down the stretch.

Jared Jeffries

We just can't seem to get enough quality shots on goal. It's been our nemesis all season.

Dave Lamarre

We have good guards who are active and can move. That creates easy shots and more shots. You can always play hard, and we've been playing extremely hard lately.

Butch Wade

He does a great job of moving off the ball, and when the shots go up he finds that seam and seems to be there (for the rebound).

Chad Cluver

It was a good comeback win after losing the first match. The girls played really hard, we were aggressive, we passed well and I was so pleased that we came out and did exactly what we had to do. We communicated and we concentrated on getting shots on goal to give us scoring opportunities.

Janie Mccarthy

I have all the confidence in the world of Jami. She can hit key shots at key moment. She's going to bring you back in the game if you're down, so I haven't lost any confidence in her or her shots.

Wendy Price

We might have started a little slow, but our defense played really well. We weren't hitting our shots right away, but when you have good defense you stay in the game.

Samantha Hubbard

This is the most complete team, the most balanced team I've had in my 10 years at Marshall. We have three lines that can score and we don't give up many shots. We're right on a par with last year's team.

Brendan Flaherty

Our offense was stagnant again in the second half. We didn't have the movement that we talked about, the passing that we talked about or the shots that we were looking to get. Grove City's defense in the second half knocked us out. We had trouble getting our shots.

Todd Minney

We knew we needed to get some stops and make a couple of shots down the stretch. We didn't make the stops, but we made the shots.

Robert Hite

It was really frustrating for the first five minutes of the game. I just felt we couldn't get into a flow. We were getting shots, but we couldn't get into an offensive rhythm.

Debbie Merrill

When you don't have a lot of low-post scoring, you've got to hit some shots (elsewhere), particularly our strength (the trey).

Doug Foote

I heard four shots go off.

Howard Williams

I know some people don't like that, but they have some tremendous athletes. There were some times when we'd drive and they knocked (the ball) into the stands. You have to be selective with your shots.

Dave Kohnen

The third quarter summed it up for us. We got to rushing. When we do that we don't take good shots. When you don't take good shots it hurts at the other end in transition going the other way.

Dan Bollinger

Sixty-one shots later, here we are. Our effort was definitely good. But we're going to have play well on Saturday, because they're good. They're well-coached, they're disciplined, and we're going to have to move the ball. It's going to be a battle.

Jim Berkman

(Parkview) is a very scrappy team and they get out and guard you. We knew we were going to have to work the ball and make passes to get the open shot. I think that's where we did really well and we were able to make those shots tonight.

Jeni Hopkins

We can't seem to get a break on our shots. We're giving great effort and not quitting. We're getting some easy shots. We're just missing them.

Holly Treat

I think we just had to be patient and not panic, there was plenty of time. We just had to stay in our offense and make shots out of our offense. We also made some great defensive stops.

Todd Lee

It's never good when you miss chances like that. I make those shots in practice. One was a very good chance, but what can you do? When you miss, you have to come right back and try again.

Youri Djorkaeff

Our defense needs to really improve more. If we had a little more fire we'd challenge a little more of their shots.

Chris Hayes

Pasco was not feeling well, and he wasn't himself. But we got some good looks with our other guards and we didn't make them, especially early on in the game. We took some shots and we missed them. Our confidence went down and we decided that we were just going to play catch instead of stepping in and taking an open shot.

Pete Long

I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

Kobe Bryant

We did pretty much what we wanted to on offense. Their goalie did a real nice job though, we must have had about 50 shots against them.

Rod Schwarz

We knew we needed to come out and play harder defense than we did in the first half. They were hitting their shots in the first half.

Toussaint Tyler

My coach said we all had to step it up after halftime. In the first half, I was kind of taking some bad shots. In the second half, I just went harder towards the basket.

Liz Thompson

We kind of ran out of gas there. You have to hand it them, they took advantage of that. Their shots were falling down at the end.

Ted Strom

I don't like being on talk or game shows and I wasn't interested in guest shots.

Ted Knight

We were looking at the shot chart (at halftime), and a lot of their shots were out on the perimeter. Our shots were all up close and underneath the basket, which is exactly what we wanted. I told the guys that we've just got to put the ball in the basket.

Cliff Thompson

That doesn't happen very often. She had a couple of shots where there were a couple of bounces, but they were still good from the moment they left her hand.

Dave Stricklin

After he hit a couple shots, he's feeling great. You see him taking it to the hole more. He's becoming more of a complete point guard like I know he is.

Tim Jarmusz

I was a little nervous. The first couple holes I hit my driver everywhere, but fortunately I hit some good recovery shots and made some birdies off of them.

Michael Putnam

We didn't knock down shots and their skill guys did what they needed to do.

Ken Crump

I just took my time. I was getting my shots to drop and getting good passes from my teammates.

Marty Mccoy

I've been feeling good with my putter and I haven't missed many shots.

Kj Choi

They hit the big shots. They got some easy shots and hit two or three 3-pointers.

Nick Bosnic

If we keep it under 25, obviously we're going to give him the opportunity to give us a chance to win games. We've really tried to limit our shots against and tried to have a lot of shots for, which means you're playing in the offensive zone a lot more than you're in the defensive zone.

Don Hay

We had some really bad offensive possessions in the second half. We took some quick shots and some bad shots. We just didn't make enough baskets.

Brent Brede

My kids played extremely hard and they have nothing to be ashamed of. They executed the game plan perfectly, but King's picked up their defense and made it hard for us to get good shots at the end.

Scott Parrish

We made our foul shots - 9-for-13 - down the stretch when we needed to.

Layne Higgs

We played a lot better this time against Myrtle Point than last time. We could not get any second chance shots. We are getting better but we don't have any shooters yet.

Maranda Brownson

They made some tough shots at the end. They used dribble penetration and we collapsed on them. They kept throwing the ball up and it happened to go in.

Steve Porter

Sometimes you don't start out with the energy you should and they start hitting shots. But to our credit, we stuck our noses in there and didn't get discouraged. We just kept playing our game and didn't get away from what we do best.

Dan Grunfeld

They did a good job of sagging in on (Humphrey) in the first half, and that made it difficult to pass it in to her. Then we hit some shots and that really opened it up for her.

Alexis Kendrick

When I get out of the paint, it opens things up for my teammates. If they collapse on me and we hit other people, we get really great shots.

Kristen Kovesdy

I like to battle. I like the close play, the play around the net. I'm pretty fast sideways. Back in Sweden, of course, you have a lot of shots, but not in the same way. It's more intense here. And I like it.

Henrik Lundqvist

Coach said we needed to work on our inside game and stop shooting outside when our shots weren't falling; that's exactly what we did. We just needed to slow things down and let things come to us.

Amanda Zimmerman

I have been around league bowling for over 30 years and I've never seen anybody hit the pocket the same 36 shots like he did.

Mike Ransom

Brooke is a force inside and we didn't feel like single-coverage was going to do the job. In the first half, I felt like we were making her work hard for her shots.

Kathy Olivier

They possessed the ball nicely. We had a lot of possession and we had a lot of through balls. We just couldn't capitalize and finish the shots.

Jeff Lenherr

They're so quick and athletic. They make shots that our guys can't make. They make the runners and the floaters, and it's tough to make those kinds of shots.

Paul Brogan

You've got to give that kid credit. He wanted the basketball and hit two big shots.

Steve Weemer

I think I was rushing my shots. I was too happy -- too excited -- to be here in this atmosphere.

Kalin Lucas

He?s a difference maker. Whenever things got tight, he either got to the foul line or he made some tough shots in the paint.

Mark Fowler

Most of the game we played with them. But they blocked a lot of shots, and they killed us on the boards.

Bill Swan

For 16 shots, to score six goals is a lot of goals. But most of the scoring was on errors.

Mike Voss

We're getting our first shots and the goalie was making the save and the second shot was sitting right there for us. I thought we played well. It just didn't go in for us tonight.

Jason Blake

They out-rebounded us badly. They got a lot of offensive rebounds for easy shots. We have been struggling and we can't seem to get over the hump.

Lynn Ribolini

I thought we played well for three quarters and even in the fourth quarter we didn't play that poorly. We had open looks at the basket. The shots wouldn't fall for us and they did for them.

Stan Eagleson

I was open at the right time. Coach always tells me to take those shots.

Kyle Meuli

I figured we'd be a little tight early. We were getting the shots, they just weren't falling. We came out better in the second half.

Willie Goolsby

I think we came up and played well. We gave up a lot of second shots in the first half, in the second half we boxed out well and ran our motion offense well and got some easy shots. It was a good game, I think its going to be good for us down the line. Any time you can play a good public school, it helps you out.

Tony Jones

I had some good chances, but some shots hit the post. Of course it's a little frustrating. But you have to keep working and hopefully it turns sooner or later.

Mikael Samuelsson

I'm pretty happy where we are at this point of the season. We just need to keep playing our game and not force shots when they're not there.

Kelly Lafountain

I'm just doing the things that I need to do to win. Sometimes it might call for me to make more shots.

Jerel Allen

That start was critical for us. We were struggling defensively. They're so quick. Offensively, we were fortunate to knock down the shots.

Tal Wold

She's a good shooter. She needs to shoot the ball more. Her shooting percentage is over 50 percent from the field. If she's going to hit one out of two, I'd like for her to take a lot of shots.

Larry Greene

The shots we normally hit, we just miss today.

Andre Williams

We picked up our aggressiveness and started taking it to the hole. We knew they were calling the fouls and that if our shots weren't falling we needed to do something else.

Ivan Chambers

That is one of the highest shot totals we have had ever. We were shooting all our shots high early in the game. We needed to be shooting low on the goal. Once we started doing that, things turned around a little. Their goalie did a real good job.

Brian Adkins

You can lose a three shots very quickly around here.

Retief Goosen

He's definitely a great player and great players make great shots.

David Schnell

In the second half I kind of got it going a little bit. Coach put the ball in my hands and ran some plays for me, and I was able to hit some shots.

Ben Jacobson

We have been playing well. We just haven't been winning. We are starting to knock down shots. I don't think we shot the ball extremely well at the first part of the season, but we are starting to shoot a better.

Wendy Hedberg

I couldn't ask for anything more for a defensive effort. We held a decent Hendrix team to 37 percent. We struggled with hitting shots, we shot 35 percent. But our mental toughness and defense pulled us through.

Greg Mason

Rod did an outstanding job given the fact that his legs were cramping up. Roddy played very, very tough the entire game. He took some good shots.

Bill Murphy

I felt we took some bad shots and their pressure really bothered us.

Pat Dennis

I can't fault these kids' effort. They're playing their guts out and one of these nights they're going to get some (shots) to drop.

Charlie Cooper

We struggled in the first half. We woke up a little [in the fourth quarter] and started to put the ball in the net. We had a lot of shots early but were just shooting, not aiming.

Fred Graham

Scoring-wise that's a little high for [Paradis], but the shots were there and she was making them. That's wonderful. Her assist numbers have come up a lot in the second half of the season just because kids are understanding their roles more and are stepping in and getting ready to shoot.

Heath Cowan

We had a lot of success with me coming off the ball screens up there. Usually I come off the screen, and I'm open. Doubling the ball screens was a great strategy. I got some open shots, I just missed them.

Todd Abernethy

The two shots Liz Fischer hit were big, cutting into their lead.

Mike Gosz

We knew we were going to have to run the offense more and move the ball quickly around the perimeter to create shots. We were patient and took good shots.

Al Gooden

I might as well know it's coming. Every game, we hit a two-three-four minute stretch where the shots won't fall.

Steve Arnold

It was a lot of good competition. We couldn't knock down any shots. We hung tough and (the players) showed they have pride.

Mike Gossett

We wanted to go up and down, but we needed to control the ball better and we had to run our offense instead of going wild like we did. In a big game against a good team, you just can't miss that many shots and opportunities. We just missed them ... we got out of our game plan, and that's my fault.

Mike Day

Lamar has always made a lot of big shots in his career. He is a great shooter and he knows how to make those type of shots. It was great to see that ball go through the net. As soon as he released it, I knew it was going in.

Michael Teller

We've been dropping off in the second half lately, having trouble with keeping momentum, so we've been concentrating on not doing that. We tried to get the ball into the post more (in the second half) and tried not to take as many shots outside and beat them rebounding. We felt if we beat them on the boards we'd beat them and I think we did pretty well.

Wes Morales

I told them to keep working hard keep working hard. Eventually your shots will fall.

Jeremy Lavoie

We got a little bit away from ourselves, taking perimeter shots when we should have been attacking the basket. That's when Roosevelt got the lead.

Doug Pesicka

We knew he could shoot the 3. We were late sometimes getting out to contest the shot. He knocked it down, so I give him credit for making good shots.

Josh Duncan

We miss two or three shots and start to stress out.

Mike Garland

We didn't make early shots and got rattled. It really didn't get much better.

Jeff Tank

Our offense has been clicking, but we didn't make shots or make stops when we needed to against them. They're an experienced team. They deserved to win.

Sean Foster

I think that we made some bad decisions early on and took some shots we shouldn't have taken. Loyola is certainly very patient offensively and they took us out of what we wanted to do and we didn't handle their pressure well early on.

Jim Stagnitta

We couldn't hit any open shots. And they had one guy who could shoot and we left him open.

Robbie Kennedy

We weren't game-planning it that way. (Vestaburg) was sagging inside and taking that away, so it opened up our outside shots and luckily for us they were falling.

Scott Pischea

(Julius) was real smooth. She did a great job of focusing and knocking down some big shots for us.

Preston Early

I'd say about the mid-point of the third quarter, they got on a run and hit some big shots. There were stretches of that quarter where we didn't guard very well. We've got to make those corrections and get better (defensively).

Vance Downs

I misjudged distances with approach shots and was unable to hit the fairway with my drives several times, making it hard for us to produce a good score.

Ai Miyazato

There were times we cut the lead to single digits and then I'd look up and they'd be up by 16 again. We missed a lot of shots, but we also didn't play good defense. To give up 70 points twice in a row is ridiculous.

Lawrence Thompson Jr

We can't get any offense going. I thought we did a decent job of getting some good shots, but you have to be able to finish.

Dan Andria

We were here a couple of days early, so I went over to a gym with him and we took shots and he didn't miss many. If you leave him open, you're in trouble. So the best bet is not to leave him open.

Chris Paul

He did his job, and we didn't have anyone else to step up and hit shots.

Brian Meehan

Three-point shots, that's why they're so dangerous. They get those three-point shots going, they can be tough to beat.

Dereck Whittenburg

In the second half they came out and hit a few shots that made us kind of step back a little bit, but luckily, we were able to regain our focus, but it was too late.

Shalee Lehning

We focused on penetration. It really opened up a lot of shots. We're not a (perimeter) shooting team, so we can't rely on that.

Sarah Russell

The last time we played them they were just so good. It?s probably the best anybody?s played against us in a long time. They executed and hit shots. It was on our court, too, so it?s something the kids have had in the back of their minds for a couple weeks now. They prepared very well for it. It was key to get off to a good start and get their confidence back.

John Mirabello

I took some good shots. It's definitely disappointing. There's a lot of talent on this football team.

Daunte Culpepper

I wasn't hitting my shots. I was trying to rush them too much. Since I saw my shot was off, I just let Reggie and the rest of the team do the work.

Devron Bostick

We were under 10 late in the third quarter and down just 10 after three. Then came that spread. We just didn't match up. When we did get shots, they didn't drop and then we got down a little and began to hang our heads.

Mike Angel

Brittany, she's just a sophomore, and she hit the two big foul shots. That was pretty remarkable.

Bill Hager

I was able to sustain his best shots, which broke his spirits.

O'neil Bell

Back in the real world one must recognize that the French government will be calling many of the shots.

Jeremy Nicholson

We were able to score in transition in the second half. We weren't hitting shots in the first half. Mars struggled with our traps in the second half and we never let up.

Kelly Mathews

When they come out at the start of the game shooting the ball the way they did, that's not the order of things. They banged shots early, we fell behind and we couldn't control tempo.

Luke Reilly

Our staff has seen them play and come away impressed. We'll try to take something away defensively from them with zone, man and different pressures and just try to do what we do best and finish our shots.

Jack Purtell

We had a lot of open shots and a lot of good looks at the baskets. After the trade, we changed a lot of big pieces.

Raef Lafrentz

We just didn't hit the timely shots. If we did might have been a different game.

Joel Pardalis

Our guys worked hard, but we had too many missed shots, missed free throws. Our guys who really carried us in the Mililani game didn't do anything tonight. That's been our season.

Chico Furtado

We will not play like that [tonight]. I think we played good, but shots weren't falling and people were getting down on themselves like myself. We got down on ourselves and we didn't have much confidence.

Shandra Brooks

Their ability to contest shots made it difficult to get the kind of 3-pointers we'd been getting.

Jim Larranaga

We've gotten tons better. We shot 36 percent from the field the first time and 35 percent the second time. They play real good defense, but at the same time, we were getting the ball inside like we wanted and just missing those shots.

Shawn Baumgartner

Oh, if we just could have made some of those shots inside. I don't even want to count the amount of shots we missed.

Darren Jackson

Derek did his job. He hit some big shots. He had a pretty good night.

Chris Valdez

We need a more productive inside game and to get more shots out of our post players. We have to find a happy medium. We're taking the path of least resistance. We have to have an inside game when our outside shots aren't falling. We're not attacking on offense like we should be.

Stan Joplin

He was a little bit down in shoot-around. We just chatted a little bit and continued to reiterate how much confidence we have in him handling these situations. I think he showed some resiliency today, and certainly when guys make shots your assists go up.

Frank Sullivan

Nora dominated that game. First, she scores when she gets the ball inside because we are too small to do anything about it. Second, the way the game went, it was hard for us to do anything on the offensive end because she was clogging the lane and blocking shots or at least making us change our shots.

Mike Rader

We have somehow found a way to win most close games. I think that's what we've got to continue to do — play smart basketball, play fundamental basketball, don't foul needlessly and make open shots.

Harry Masch

I saw them play (Friday night) and he caught fire just where he left off. I don't know if there was much we could have done differently. He was just making shots. That's a nice zone to be in during a very important part of the season. Kudos to Cody, he shot the ball very well.

Keith Jennings

Every time we come up here they shoot lights out. Our statistics guy said we missed 17 shots from inside 3 feet in the first half. We just missed too many easy shots.

Rich Demuzio

I feel pretty crappy right now, but we had a good shot at it. I was getting past my guy and drawing help every time. The shots just weren't falling.

Reed Baker

We weren't making shots; that was the biggest thing. I had a few shots I should have made.

Bryan Hopkins

They're beatable. We have to make shots and play defense.

Lauris Mikalauskas

We did exactly what we wanted in the first half, but they hit their first three shots of the second half, and that seemed to give them confidence.

Mike Boles