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We've had to learn to compensate a little bit without her. We've had some sophomores and juniors step up and fill that role, Crystal Taylor especially. They've just made the game a team game.

Curtis Barney

We're delighted to be in this (the regional). We're really a year ahead of schedule, with seven sophomores on our team. If somebody back in December would have told me that we would be in the playoffs, I would have checked their forehead to see if they had a temperature.

Werner Christen

We've definitely had kids waiting in the wings. The seniors, juniors, and even the sophomores, are really ready to go into those roles. We've been preparing them to do so for a while now and know they are ready.

Martha Whiting

I think it will be fun. We've known all those guys since we were sophomores.

Casey Riddle

They're physical. That's a big thing. When you can put those 18-year-olds up against my sophomores, you can have a lot of success.

Andy Hubbard

I think we have the potential but it is not going to be an easy season by any means. We have a lot of depth in our seniors. Most of them have started since they were sophomores, so they are a strong unit.

Lori Rubino

We were mainly freshmen and sophomores this year and they stuck with it. They knew we were going to get beat in a lot of meets because we couldn't fill a full lineup, but they kept working hard.

Troy Houge

Defense let us down again. They've been like that all year. We've been averaging five errors a game, and the five errors hurt us. A lot of my players were sophomores. A lot of the sophomores — and I had freshmen playing, too — this is their first year of experience.

Gary Paul Parnham

We'll rotate eight or nine guys that can start for us. We have tier one pitchers, but then we have a whole slew of sophomores and freshman we can use.

Bryan Kramer

I told the kids in our meeting Friday night that we can't have any more freshmen. We have to grow up and become sophomores and juniors. It's easier to say than do. But you can't explain how important experience is. We just don't have a lot of it. These games are learning experiences for us.

K.c. Keeler

South Elgin is a first-year program with mostly sophomores and they struggled. It was all right to have an off night, but I am disappointed we didn't shoot better. Everyone has to pick it up a little.

John Cordes

When you play five or six sophomores offensively, they just have to grow up. That's the only way they can do it without making mistakes. Thankfully our defense played well enough tonight that we could come out on top.

Porter Casey

I've said it several times; we had nothing to lose. I'm playing all freshmen and sophomores and with Russell (a senior high school lacrosse All American) there, they had to be favored. We're going to be strong from at least the next couple of years.

Tom West

Our sophomores understand where there are. We're in good shape physically. Mentally, I think we're fine. We just have to go out and play and see where the chips may fall.

Jeremy Cox

The needs of ninth graders are different from those of sophomores, juniors and seniors that is exclusive to their population. The other students already have their feet wet and are familiar with high school life.

Karen Berry

Our field events did great. We got a first in the throwing. ... We used some freshmen and sophomores in the (400 relay) and got second. That is nice.

Darl Keller

We are definitely building this year. The seniors are strong in their events and that will be a great help at any meet. The juniors, although a small crew, have good experience. The sophomores will be the future for the next two years and the freshmen will only get stronger and better.

Jeff Hanson

We always have pretty high expectations. We are very young and still have a lot of work to do as far as skills development, but we are expecting to play like they are sophomores that have been in the program, even though they haven't.

Ivan Moore

We've got pitching; that's a good start. Even a couple of sophomores will get some innings.

Dan Sparrow

With the girls we showed that we can compete in a number of events. We are exceedingly young, three-fourths of the team is freshman and sophomores. With the boys we only have a dozen guys and it is just difficult to fill events and I thought they did a nice job to fill what they could.

Shawn Woods

He had an excellent game for his very first varsity game. The neat thing is, he — as well as the other sophomores — gained a lot of experience and he can build on that.

Ray Baranczyk

Just because the title says freshmen, they don't play like freshmen. Sophomores don't play like sophomores. I expect them to produce the way I would expect seniors to produce. If I put you on the floor, I have confidence in you and I expect you to get it done.

Pat Lamb

We have sophomores that started all 10 games last year that are being pushed all around for playing time.

Bob Casey

I thought we were ready to quit there when we got down, but Nicole really got us fired up and was a good leader out there. We had five sophomores out there playing most of the night and I think they were really nervous at the beginning.

Larry Peterson

Not just that they've had good nights, but they let me focus team-wise. There's some consistency and it's nice you know count on them. I focus on my sophomores because I know I don't need to worry about them.

Pat Cassidy

We've got some kids playing, some freshmen playing a lot of hockey for us right now. Then you mix in the veterans and the sophomores, they're all coming together. They're seeing what high school hockey is all about, it's a long season.

Mike Boyajian

We're excited about it and now we're going to try our best to win a championship. But you've got to remember, 10 of our 14 kids are either freshmen or sophomores.

Buzz Peterson

I plan on having a double major and so it's going to allow me to come in with more credits than some who are coming in as sophomores next year. The other aspect is I'm fairly competitive. We have a running contest to see who can take the most and do well on the most.

David Potts

There's not a team in the conference that has 15 sophomores and juniors who have 10 games of varsity experience.

Mark Watson

I think we can finish higher than that. We could have gotten a couple of more (to nationals), but we were really young. We started seven freshmen and sophomores and only three seniors.

Robin Ersland

We have a good mix of seniors, juniors and sophomores. Blending them together was the key, but early on, we made a lot of mental and physical mistakes.

Larry Wayman

I feel positive about this team. These kids won titles as freshmen (frosh championship), sophomores (JV) and juniors (NCL I) so they are used to hanging up a pennant.

Jeff Donaldson

In the end I got to use a lot of my young girls. We wanted to come out and fight to the end and we got to do that with our juniors, sophomores and freshmen. Classical is a real good team, and they are the best team we have played all year.

Fred Hogan

She just woke up. We've been working hard on hitting and the young girls are taking control. That's nice to see from freshmen and sophomores.

Sarah Kennedy

The Detroit Pistons had to go through it. The Lakers got beat by Boston several times. The Bulls had to get beat before they learned how to win. It was real good that our guys went as sophomores (in 2004). It really helped and you could see it.

Rick Lebato

The finish of this season was great and most of our team is young. With the sophomores we have coming up, we should be right in the same spot next year.

Bruce Durham

We started four sophomores and a freshman. So that will definitely help us as far as having players back. We'll come back and hopefully we will have matured, because that was our biggest thing. There should be more parity next year, and that will have different teams in the mix.

Michael Gardner

We were undefeated as freshmen and sophomores. We went 8-1-1 as juniors. It was a shame to go out the way we did our senior year.

Barry Hackett

We have a couple of kids coming up as sophomores in Alyssa and Stephanie who are new this year but have shown a lot so far.

Bob Murray

Our sophomores found out what it's like to play tonight. And they didn't handle it well.

Chuck Woelfel

We saw some good hitters. They really hit the ball hard, but a lot of them were older. We started four freshmen and three sophomores. We're young, but we have a lot of potential. It just remains to be seen how far these girls can come along.

Jim Kivisto

The thing with these guys is that they've all been there before. They were all freshmen and sophomores when we were down at state two years ago. That's what's been the most important thing for them. They all know what needs to be done to get to that point.

Steve Hill

I really expect some sophomores to give some seniors a real battle for starting jobs.

John Wyss

We're getting good minutes from the sophomores. They're starting to develop and get stronger.

Chris Gallerani

We get along great despite our age differences, considering that the team has about five freshmen and four sophomores.

Amber Howser

At this point in the season, nobody thinks about starting with two sophomores, everyone is just a player on the team. We just try to win with what group we put out there.

Juliann Van Liew

Those two sophomores have stepped up since last year. By the time these two are seniors, you'll be hearing about them.

Keith Jennings

We have a really young team with plenty of freshmen and sophomores. This team has been really fun because they play a high level of enthusiasm and focus. They seem to want to play at their highest level every game.

Louise Johnson

She has (come through for us) all season. She's probably one of the best sophomores in South Jersey.

Terry Mancini

This is a good group of sophomores. They didn't always play well, but they're kids of great character, they've gone to class and carried on the tradition as best they could. I'd like to tell them thanks for being here the two years they've been here. It's been pretty good.

Louis Whorton

We put pressure on the ball. They have a lot of sophomores and juniors and so do I so I know how they'll react. They make mistakes.

Larry Mckissack

When they were sophomores they were pushing the seniors.

Pat Fitterer

Boy, I've got a lot of young guys this year. I have seven new starters on the field this year. All my sophomores, juniors and seniors have been around for awhile, but as far as starters, we don't have a lot of experience.

Nathan Henderson

We're excited. We've got 13 girls and eight are freshmen and sophomores. This is a good experience for them. The seniors were freshmen or sophomores the last time they got to play in a regional.

Jeff Jones

We're going to have to take care of business. We've gone through the up and downs when these kids were freshman and sophomores, and improved on what we did last year. I couldn't have asked for a more enjoyable group, and this is where they can make their mark.

Kraig Terpstra

We have 40 girls out this year and 29 are freshman and sophomores. Hopefully, there will be an improvement as the year moves along. But there is definitely some talent there.

Chris Whelan

I picked (Jamestown)No. 1 at the beginning of the year. ... When this group was sophomores they beat our sophomores 55-6, so I'm not surprised they're doing well.

Mark Gibson

We don't have enough hours to train and devote to conditioning and workouts in general. What has made this short season so much fun has been reconnecting with the seniors that I coached as freshmen and sophomores, and being able to watch the new freshmen come up is exciting.

Gretchen Devroy

We've got a pretty young team with a lot of sophomores and some new freshmen, but they've played together a lot.

John Stockton

I don't see how this year's sophomores can beat the prom that we are putting on this year.

Jaime Ellsworth

We've got several seniors that have been together since the ninth grade and they've worked hard for this season. We had to count on several of these guys as sophomores. They had to grow up fast (as sophomores) and they've continued to improve during the past two seasons. Our success will hinge on them.

Bart Britton

Our defense is playing with more confidence. Our sophomores are leading the way for the freshmen.

Brett Shufelt

I'm not afraid to tell anyone I'm very demanding. I'll accept physical errors, but mental errors are what I'm trying to eliminate. When you're dealing with freshmen and sophomores, there's a big step.

Dave Mcdowell

We're a young, inexperienced team, and we have to learn how to win games. We have six freshmen and five sophomores and a junior without a lot of experience. That's the tale of the tape right now.

Jay Smith

We have a lot of seniors, but those two sophomores have really played well for us. Everyone really pulls for each other and helps each other out. We're really into making this a special season.

George V. Higgins

Our biggest problem will be finding pitching. We have eight or nine pitchers, but four are sophomores.

Bobby Davis

It's huge what these kids have accomplished. God gets the glory and they get every bit of the credit. They have done a great job of buying into the system and wanting to win. Our five seniors are extremely mature. Even when they came in as sophomores, they were mature.

Clay Norton

Most of my freshmen and sophomores play JV. Only one (freshman T.T. Jones) gets some playing time on varsity.

Raymond Burk

Our youth showed up tonight. We had two freshmen and two sophomores starting, and tonight, we never got into any kind of offensive groove.

Dwight Roper

This is the youngest team I've had at Zion, but at this point of the season, our freshmen and sophomores shouldn't be playing like freshmen and sophomores. We can't use that as an excuse.

Don Kloth

All we can do is take it one game at a time. We are playing good basketball right now. Our sophomores are giving us a life and our seniors are giving us leadership. We'll be ready for next week.

Bill Cahill

It was a painful season. We are young with freshman and sophomores. They have the talent, but fundamentally they are still learning.

Vincent Jackson

A lot of this comes from the fact that a lot of the guys have grown over the years. A lot of the guys playing now started as sophomores with me. They took their share of lumps all the way through. The coaching staff have been great role models of not to give up at any moment.

Matt Heiser

We have a lot of things to learn. We've taped practices this year to get the guys to learn even faster. Starting four sophomores at the Class 3A level can be rough, but we'll get better from this.

Lee Sandy

It feels really good to win a game like this, because we have so many young guys. We had three sophomores starting on offense and two on the defensive line. They came out and got the job done.

Bill Scott

This was big. To lose seven kids from last year, and have a bunch of sophomores step in and play. That's outstanding. I can't say enough about the effort.

Jay Harper

We had some sophomores on the field a couple years ago when Bath hung 50 on us. Those kids are seniors now and they remembered that, and I think that served as motivation. No way did they want Bath scoring 50 again on this field.

Robert Casto

Our sophomores who are going to play are going to develop. I don't feel good about starting a sophomore unless he has already shown he can do the job for us. All they lack is that Friday night experience.

Gary Moody

We're young. We have one senior that starts and one that comes in off the bench. There's a lot of juniors and sophomores that pretty much are our nucleus. The biggest thing for us to remember is they are young and will make mistakes, but we have come a lot way.

Jay Freese

That's what we're trying to tell them (that they're are playing very hard). They're freshmen and sophomores playing against juniors and seniors. I do think the effort is there and they are coming along. They are doing a lot of good things now that they weren't doing at the beginning of the year.

Jennifer Wilson

We're young. We only had one senior who made it to state. The rest are juniors and sophomores. We'll be back.

Larry Swim

Only seven wins last year, but we lost our big kid early and we started two freshmen. This year we started two sophomores and a freshman. We played a little better basketball.

Tom Caudill

It's been kind of hard because we've had to use three sophomores to replace one senior. They're doing a pretty good job, but they still make sophomore mistakes.

Thomas Boykin

They are just a better, stronger, faster and bigger team. They were beating us to every ball. We have five freshmen and sophomores starting and that made a huge difference.

Andres Olmedo

We rebuild every four years and this is the year. But I still feel good because of our base, which includes 17 sophomores.

Kevin Gieg

Those two freshmen are great defenders. They're playing like sophomores and juniors.

Jim Delmar

We've got some sophomores that are anxious to take their turn. They were certainly successful as first year players against other first year players.

Dave Hohenthal

We have a lot of younger kids. I am pleased with some of the freshmen and sophomores. They should make some good contributions.

Jon Faitsch

We have 12 seniors, 15 juniors and 20 sophomores, so we're very balanced. We also have good leadership. Now we have to get all 65 girls on the same page, which will be a lot of work for the captains.

Chuck Olson

We've come a long way since the beginning of the season. We are starting five freshmen and five sophomores. We're going to make some young mistakes, but we've been cleaning up those mistakes and using some high-level moves.

Mark Savoia

Defensively, we played well and we had some younger players come through. Five or six of these kids started as sophomores ... we expected them to be good defensively.

Jim Aldrich

For a kid who just got her driver's license, she's tough as nails. She's one of the toughest sophomores I've ever seen. She doesn't get rattled by anything; she loves to pitch and she works hard at it.

Pete Hoffman

We're going for a smash-mouth type of play but at the same time, we're building with a lot of sophomores and juniors. Once we get into the season, (fans) should see a more improved team which is fundamentally sound.

Johnny Poynter

They can all hit the 3, they can all penetrate and they can all play defense. It just took awhile because we start four sophomores and (Coleman) who is a junior. It just took them some time to realize how good they are. They are playing great right now.

Dean Duquette

We won some close games, and we lost some close games in the first half of the season. Right now we've won 9 of our last 10, and I think the closest win was by nine points. (The sophomores) have improved quite a bit, and our team has improved quite a bit.

Tom Armstrong

The sophomores are comfortable in the positions they played last year and they understand their roles very well.

Amy Estry

These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now.

Donna Mechley

To bring two home with medals as sophomores is incredible for these kids.

Randy Reidler

We have good leadership — these guys (most notably the seniors), most of them, since they were sophomores. That's got to be a strength — that experience and their ability to be successful in their final year.

Jeff Brimhall

We were up and down last year. We didn't have five guys go low on a consistent basis. I'm hoping that the sophomores are able to develop that maturity which I think can carry us.

John Boragno

That was a great goal. Joey has been doing that for us all year. He is probably one of the top three sophomores in Palm Beach County.

Marcelo Castillo

We have a very young team. We start one junior, two sophomores and two freshmen.

Jessica Guild

We are going to make errors. We did the same thing two years ago when we had sophomores on the varsity, but it paid off when they became juniors and seniors.

John Parks

We have a young make up with three sophomores and six freshmen on this team. But we also have a great deal of experience to go along with the youth.

Mike Sweitzer

We have a ton of juniors and sophomores. They're working hard every day and getting better.

Anthony Verdi

Those seniors, Russ Beeler, Aaron Akers, Steve Cole, and Pat McDonough have set a foundation that we wanted. The freshmen, sophomores and even juniors look up to them and they now know what's expected.

Brian Blubaugh

I feel like our freshmen and sophomores are able to handle the pressure, handle the challenge, they've done it all year. A lot of pressure's been on them and they've done very well so I'm not concerned at all.

Rachael Goodwin

It's a safety issue for us. Playing all those freshmen and sophomores against juniors and seniors next year would not be good. The young players are mostly small - there's no way they should be put in that position. They're just physically not ready.

Kirk Ham

We had two freshmen, two sophomores and a junior on the floor at times tonight. At no point until the end did we have a senior on the floor. But our inexperience is still showing. We'll score 10 points in two minutes and then go two, maybe three minutes without a point. But we certainly like the direction we're heading in.

Jeff Quackenbush

We had a good season. I'm proud of the guys. They came together. We had mixtures of some solid seniors and brought some freshmen and sophomores up. We got good experience all year, and the future's very bright.

Joe Sigrist

The main thing is that our 10 freshmen are still learning the system. But our sophomores already have a year under their belts and our juniors and seniors will be leading the way a little bit.

Chris Fenske

It came down to our freshman against their senior in that last match, and things just didn't go our way. I thought we needed this experience tonight in this type of venue, with this type of crowd because our core nucleus is made up of freshmen and sophomores, so we'll be back.

Tom Dolde

This might be a two-year progression, ... We have so many juniors and sophomores. We'll be good this year, but we'll be better next year.

Dave Miller

Last year, we came up short and our sophomores put it on ourselves that we didn't want to do that again. So, we told ourselves we were going to leave it on the floor ... no regrets.

Anthony Slack

Michael has grown a lot. He's 6 feet 2 and he's also a lefty so that helps him out. Our other seniors are solid and I'm excited about the way a couple of our sophomores (McLean and Hitchcock) are coming along.

Andy Brunner

Most of our top scorers are underclassmen, four sophomores and two juniors. Our top seniors are mostly defensemen.

Steve Ivcic

We even had a junior varsity sweeper protecting the net because we were out two players due to illness. The freshmen and sophomores in the game did a nice job.

Laurie Carr

We had a freshman at second. Every year I've had a freshman start and we're starting five sophomores. It doesn't take long for them to get into the action. Once they realize they belong the nerves are gone.

Matt Hoiles

This has been home. Our sophomores and juniors probably won't play here again.

Perry Patella

If some of those shots fall, you never know. Whether we were or weren't getting bumped, we push on each other with pads every day so we're use to those bumps. But that's characteristic of sophomores and freshmen.

Jeff Walk

Normally, we don't have that many sophomores. But all three of these guys are going to be able to help us this year. They fill the need. ... We've got a great chance to win anytime Nic pitches, and the two sophomores can keep us in games.

Ted White

Most of the seniors that are starting have been starting since they were sophomores.

Mark Lasley

When I came here, Stevens Point wasn't a football school. Out of 600 sophomores at the school, we had 11 come out my first year. We were going down the halls and begging kids to come out. But we kept working at it, and things just got better.

Jerry Fitzgerald

We could die from youth ... that's the bottom line. We only have one senior and three juniors and the rest are sophomores.

Bobby Davis

The juniors are a pretty good class, and we have five good sophomores. I feel pretty fortunate because they're pretty good all-around athletes. We've been pretty impressed with their overall skills. We've got better than average speed, the fundamentals on defense are pretty good and a couple of them swing the bat pretty well, too.

Bob Grimes

Our defense is inexperienced in a lot of spots. We have a lot of sophomores and juniors that have a lot of practice experience, not as much game experience. They're ready to step in and we have a lot of speed back there.

Suzanne Isador

We're all young and inexperienced. We've always had a tough region. To be the best you have to beat the best, and we've always had to go through them. We're all young, and Huntington has a lot of sophomores. We're just rebuilding now, but we'll get there.

Jeanne Lunsford

Our staff is young with just three sophomores among the 15 pitchers. But we have good depth and athletically we are better overall.

Luther Bramblett

We had two sophomores and a freshman up. There was a little inexperience there. They didn't go for the kill - they passed instead of shooting the ball.

Andres Olmedo

Our returning freshmen and sophomores are only going to get better. Next year we want to have more than two swimmers competing at state individually.

Brian Seo

Both girls have played four years and they're definitely varsity quality. Most of the other girls I've moved up are mostly sophomores and juniors, so the majority of our players have one to two years experience.

Bonnie Jonas

If he has a bad game, the next day in practice you would think he scored 35. I haven't coached too many sophomores that are the steadying force of the team.

Kevin Diverio

I was happy to get the first meet in. We have over 50 sophomores and freshmen on the team, and I was excited to see what they could do. Overall, the coaches were very pleased.

Rich Biondi

We really only had a couple of places where I didn't like the way we defended. We rebounded well against a team that was much bigger and stronger than we were. Our kids learned a lot today. I played three freshmen and two sophomores for a ton of minutes today. And Kirby Lutz played her heart out against their top scorer.

Fred Richter

I was happy with the free-throw shooting tonight (17-of-21). I was especially pleased with the play of our sophomores, Derek Holmes and Anthony Manuel.

Tommy Tonelli

We came in the huddle at the end of the third quarter. There is still one more quarter. Our seniors, juniors and sophomores didn't want it to be the end.

Nate Nygren

We've got some younger kids, some sophomores, who are probably going to have to see time there and start.

Chuck Dickinson

West Bend West is the newcomer in the conference race this year. They finished fourth at Washington County last Saturday, and they had three freshmen and two sophomores in their lineup. So the conference race won't be easy.

Bruce Henning

We have a lot of good freshmen, some sophomores who are quality players as well and a couple of juniors who are really good, so we're pretty sound. It's just a matter of playing within ourselves.

Armondo Cima

Him getting us up as sophomores and us winning a regional title, that gave us experience for last year and this year. It taught me and Ben a lot and made us better leaders.

Brady Stuckey

I addressed the team after the game and told the sophomores that this experience was something that you can't replace. I told the seniors they laid great groundwork, and we're really going to miss Jason Square. Our future's bright.

Mike Brewster

Our biggest problem when you look at this team is 15 out of 19 kids are freshmen and sophomores. We have no seniors so we have no great senior leadership.

Doug Foote

We're losing some good seniors this year, but we also have some good sophomores that are going to group up a lot and help us next year.

Aaron Capps

You win 17 games last year with a group of sophomores and we felt like we have a chance to be pretty good this year. We have a freshman and a sophomore now starting with three juniors.

Brad Stamps

Right now it's going to be hard for our sophomores knowing this was our last game. But after the day's over, we've got to hold our heads high and know we made it here.

Ashley Cook

I've got two sophomores who are doing real well with that. There's also a 6-foot senior who didn't play last year. Kate Gres-ham went to Elizabeth last year and played softball.

Tonya Hanks

We have a lot of juniors and sophomores who've shown a lot of promise. They've done such a great job in the practices and the scrimmages, that's really going to increase our depth over the course of the season. We've got a lot more depth than the teams we've had in the past, and I expect us to compete with the rest of the league.

Christina Collins

We have a lot of sophomores and some of them stepped up in that game.

Bill Moseley

Those girls as sophomores, skill wise, are where our seniors were in the past.

Sarah Milo

We also have some sophomores and freshmen who we hope will step up next year.

Jay Peters

We're going to have a heart-to-heart. I might have to bring up some freshmen and sophomores that have been coming to practice and working hard. At least they'll play with some fire. We don't have much time, so we need to start making a run.

James Vanek

I have got a lot of young players, ... We played six sophomores at one time.

Joe Gill

This was the best group I've had in eight years. Hopefully the seniors will go on and have a great career, and the juniors and sophomores will get back here again.

Bob Jesmain

I would imagine with his bat, he would have been somewhere in our lineup last year. We thought we might have seven sophomores in the lineup until he came, and he's done a great job so far.

John Passero

We have gotten big minutes from our sophomores, juniors and freshmen all season long.

Jerome Sandoval

It is a big question mark, but I said that last year and we wound up being not that bad. They look good at practice, and when they get under the lights it may be a different story. We have some kids that have never played before and some sophomores, so it will be pretty interesting.

Robert Kistner

We seem to be getting good defense and good pitching. We just have to work on the hitting. We gotta get stronger. But you start six freshmen and three sophomores, you're going to get that.

John Carlock

The first part was getting all of the freshmen and sophomores out this year and then keeping them out. For whatever reason, we've had the glue that has been keeping them together. We're trying to capitalize on that energy and ambition and they're learning a lot.

Jeff Elliott

(Sophomores) know they have the chance to play. It's not like we've got six or seven guys set on each side of the ball.

Kevin Myers

Three of the four are sophomores and one is an eighth-grader. It's pretty impressive and we're excited about their future.

Melissa Gruver

You're playing a varsity schedule, so even though you might be freshmen and sophomores you've got to act like a varsity.

John Carlock

We're very young this year. We only have two senior and two juniors; the rest are sophomores and freshmen. I'm pretty confident though that we're going to have a good season. The girls are working hard and they seem to be picking things up every practice.

Carol Gerulis

They [the four sophomores who start] all live together, and they really care about each other.

Tito Horford

[The early scores] kill a bunch of sophomores. You know, we started six sophomores tonight on offense and they were absolutely shell-shocked.

Rick Vrhovac

It's as talented a group as I've ever had. A lot of senior experience. They won state as sophomores.

Mike Briguglio

The last two minutes they just didn't make good decisions. But they're very young, most of the girls are sophomores and freshmen, and I'm not disappointed in them.

Anthony Hill

I think it was when they were sophomores, when Swift, Van Vliet, those guys were sophomores. I think that's the last time we beat them.

Stu Walters

We are really excited to be back north and feel like the last eight games were more of an indication of where we are than the first eight were. We have six seniors, but nine first-years and sophomores, so we are young, and ask a lot of some of our first-years. Playing and gaining experience is one of the best results from Florida and we are looking to build upon that.

Ryan Sullivan

(The Michigan district) used it as an all-school reader, ... Sophomores, juniors and seniors were reading it and discussing it and discussing it in different disciplines, and I was getting some amazing e-mails back from kids and teachers.

Chris Crutcher

We made a couple of adjustments (following the first drive) on defense and that turned out to be big. We have six sophomores and two freshmen out there so there?s going to be a learning period. But that was one fine effort out there tonight.

Jack Hunt

I'm looking forward to seeing what those sophomores can do.

Guy Greening

It's not that we don't have good guys. It's the inexperience just because we don't know what to expect. There's a whole lot of sophomores who have no idea what they're in store for.

Dan Armstrong

Considering that the majority of the staff are freshmen and earn awards as freshmen it's a good indication of next year. I was also very pleased to see sophomores win, it will help them transition to a four-year school. I also feel they learned that what they do makes a difference.

Laura York

I am still experimenting with a little bit of the chemistry on the field, working in some of the sophomores to see who will work with whom. When we were losing those points, they got a couple of fast breaks, and our defense just wasn't crashing in fast enough.

Judy Anderson

I think we've got games we can learn from, especially with seven new players and nine of our 15 being freshman or sophomores.

Suzanne Fox

They're playing so well that we don't think of them as freshmen or sophomores. They're not scared at all. Maybe it's from playing in big games, but they come into big games and shoot the ball.

Chris Braier

I'm excited for our sophomores. Especially after what happened last year and the way the season finished. This is vindication for them.

Allen Huddleston

My sophomores played really well tonight. They stepped it up and played very, very well. Of course, Marcus Washington did some wonderful things for us.

Jack Stephenson

We should be dominating next year. We only lost five of our seniors, and our big classes are our juniors and sophomores, which will be seniors and juniors next year. So I think we're going to all step up, and it'll be amazing to watch.

Clay Oney

That's where our leadership has got to come from, our sophomores. I thought he got after it and we need him to play well.

Grant Mccasland

We started six sophomores on (each) side of the ball today.

Matt Brown

I've got two or three other pitchers, but I know what they can do. Right now I need to know all the sophomores coming up to replace some of the guys we lost, I need to know what they're going to do. That's the part of the puzzle we need to find out and that's usually what I use the first week for.

Scott Emerick

My freshman year, we started four freshmen; sophomore year, we started four sophomores. I'm so happy we ended up with a state championship.

Jawan Carter

Losing 18 seniors is an opportunity to start over, ... We have an outstanding group coming up. The juniors and sophomores will contribute early. We have a smaller senior class, but we like what we have. It's going to be a fun year.

Tom Little

I think with the sophomores playing in their last home game, they were a little more focused on that than the actual game at first. We tried to tell them at halftime that there's been a lot of people who have supported them since they've been here, and they owed it to them to go 100 percent the rest of the way.

Dave Stricklin

For what we had returning, because I lost three starters (from last year) and we have a young group of sophomores, it has been an outstanding season.

James Knowles

It's important to get guys that can come in and play early because we're losing so much. But the big thing is the last couple years, it's been hard numbers-wise to get linebackers in here because those guys were starting since they were sophomores. So just our numbers were down.

Luke Fickell

It's definitely the ultimate goal, ... USC did it two years ago when they were all sophomores. It can be done.

Michael Hart

Our field was a little bit wet, so we sent our sophomores (to Richards) to play a game, and our freshmen went over and played after them.

Doug Sutor

And Samantha isn't the only one who performed for us as a freshman. (Outfielder) Alessandra Giampaolo is back, too, and you can already see that they, as sophomores, have raised their games a level.

Jennie Ritter

(That run) was just one of those deals where we have a lot of underclassmen playing. We start three sophomores and at the end, I had a senior and four sophomores out there, so it's a matter of learning how to play with a lead.

Dawn Karpell

All of the players have surprised me at different points in the year. The two sophomores have vastly improved from last year, and the four newcomers have gotten better since the day they've gotten here.

John Mercer

If the freshmen and sophomores don't know what to expect, they'll know after the first 15 minutes of the game.

Greg Baudo

It's not like they're inexperienced sophomores being asked to step up and run over their head. We're returning six athletes with national championship experience, and that's significant.

Ethan Barron

He was one of those freshman who showed some promise last year. We're not going to win any meets, but it's a victory for us when one of those sophomores win. We need those sophomores to be in a position to medal.

Errol Logue

I was very pleased with them today. These sophomores, they've never been in a pressure game. This was a pressure game for them.

Ernie Rosseau

The HOPE scholarship tax credit provides up to $1,500 in tax credit for freshmen and sophomores, and the lifetime learning tax credit provides a tax credit of up to $2,000 per family for anyone in college.

Erin Korsvall

I don't know if we've been lucky or if it's by design, but we've always had a good mix of sophomores, juniors and seniors playing every year.

Eric Wedemeyer

This year's team is young. The team has no seniors in the top 10, but will be led by a strong group of juniors and sophomores.

Ed Pancoast