I didn't know what would happen. I knew the starters weren't going to play much, so I figured I would play a lot. I thought anything could happen when we got down near the goal line, maybe throw one up, and we did. I was happy everything worked out.
Matt Jones
We lost five seniors, and three of them were starters. I've tried really hard not to compare this team to that one.
Amy Powell
I think it is what it is -- we come out and we play well early in the game and then just let it slip away late in the game. It is second team, third team. What we're looking at is when our starters are in there, we're doing a good job.
Charles Woodson
I've got four senior starters who remember playing against New Mexico and know it's going to take disciplined basketball to beat them, but I don't really have any one star who will take over that game.
Carolyn Peck
We have five guys coming back who hit over .300, and we have the arms to build the staff in front of me. We have to find the starters. If we don't have them, the closer doesn't matter.
Frank Gonzalez
Basically two starters. Willie didn't start, but he finished the games. We've faced some adversity, but we'll get back together.
Duggar Baucom
Being 5-0 we're excited about that. It hasn't come easy without a doubt. We had to replace 18 starters. I just feel good about how well the new kids have responded and jelled with the returning guys.
Steve Warren
On defense we again return three of four starters from last season. We should be able to put a very experienced group on the field at all times. With Ginny and Amanda Winn returning from injuries, we are returning two of our more experienced players, which will give the defense a huge boost.
Michael Moynihan
We had five starters out (last) week running over a 100-degree temperature.
Shane Farrell
That's what makes our team kind of interesting. We have four-year starters. We have guys with a lot of depth in starting and experience. And then we have guys who are in their first year as a starter on varsity.
Brian Champion
They?re an unbelievable high school team, at every position. They?re going to be hard to beat. They have five starters who are college players.
Mike Pardon
The starters get you there, and then the bullpen determines the outcome. The majority of the games are very close. It seems like it doesn't matter how good your offense is.
Mark Wiley
They want me playing outside hitter and back row. They told me if I work hard and play well I can be one of the starters. But I have to prove myself in order to do that.
Blaire Hiler
The most important thing is what the returning starters think, ... Can they get themselves together and play basketball? You've got to grow up right now. These things happen in sports.
Oscar Robertson
I think there might be a little pressure, being a state champion. Everybody is shooting at you. Hopefully, our returning starters have enough experience, they'll be able to handle it.
Rick Nordyke
We went from Dec. 10 to the 27th of February and only practiced our starters together seven times. To be here, it's been a real statement of perseverance.
Kirk Martin
The first time they gave it to us out of respect and tradition, what we had accomplished last year and what we had coming back, not realizing we had four freshmen starters. Now, the second time around, we earned it out of respect.
Frank Cheek
For us being so young and having to replace five starters and playing in Region 5, I think our season has been pretty successful.
Monica Williams
Since the Braves rarely, if ever give up effective starters (see Bruce Chen , Damian Moss , Steve Avery , etc.) it's tough to believe that Marquis will bring much to the table in his post-Atlanta years.
Jason Marquis
These girls have come a long way. We are still a strong, competitive team considering we have four injured starters sitting on the bench.
Jack Richburg
I challenged our starters to set the tempo early. I thought our starters one through five stepped up and played well tonight.
Lois Heeren
There is nothing set, I haven't made up my mind. I have an idea of who the 11 starters will be. But it's good because that means we have several players that have a shot.
Israel Collazo
I just wasn't looking to our starters to do it all. I just wanted to win.
Mark Ferris
Any time you have your returning starters back, you like to think that is a positive. You like to be able to rely on their experience to help lead this ball club. All of our starting infielders were in double-digits in errors and I would like to think we are going to become much more stable defensively.
Bob Todd
I think that any time that you have this many returning starters, you have higher expectations. I think as individuals we have high expectations for our team just because we know the character of guys we have here and what we're capable of.
Andrew Whitworth
We have some experience, but losing seven starters is significant. We have some talent, but we have to gather ourselves as a team.
Sue Leckey
We're swinging the bats and have our pitching rotation where we have a good feel for our starters and how we want the bullpen. I feel like we're right on schedule.
Jerry Halstead
That's what we did not have last year. My starters were good, but if they were having off days, I had no place to go. We're going to have plenty of options this year. That makes for a better team.
Russ Milligan
We're a lot speedier this year, offensively. We lost a lot of multi-year starters to graduation, but our players are working hard and I think some of them will step up and do well.
Don Turner
Part of it is to give the starters a rest. The other part is to get the others more quarters and get them into the flow of the game.
Shawn Baumgartner
I really think they are the best team in the tournament. I know Mascoutah beat them last night, but their five starters are good. I told our team they are a better team. If we play good and they play good, they're going to beat us. We needed them to be off a little bit and they weren't.
Brian Perkes
We all came here on scholarship — we're all Division I players. Before, when [non-starters] were in the game, they could just let the starters do their thing. But now everyone is stepping up and playing, and that's what we need.
Samantha Stovall
Those are a lot of key players right there. But this something that high school coaches face al the time. Sooner or later you are going to be facing a year where you've graduated all your starters.
Lori Johnson
The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496.
Chris Nolan
That's in the rear-view mirror now. We have 10 players back, including four starters, and some very promising newcomers. We've had a great summer at team camp and everyone's been working very hard. We're excited and ready to get going.
Joe Clinton
When you can take a wide receiver and make him a nickel back, ... when you can take rookies and make them starters, when you can take free agents off the streets and win a world championship, that means the philosophy and the scheme is bigger than the players.
Joe Theismann
I had nothing going for me. My fastball was flat. I couldn't locate and was leaving the ball in the white (over the plate). I've got to be more consistent. All our starters need to be more consistent.
Cliff Russum
Just to win the way we did against their starters with a lot of our backups, it shows how deep we are.
Troy Walters
The key was we got to get some pitchers some work because the majority of innings have come from our two starters (Matt Stewart and Trey Johnson), because they've been pitching so well.
Mike Pirtle
Our second team in practice has really been working hard. They have battled the starters like it is a game and that has helped us get on this streak.
Jon Heesch
We had three good practices this week and were very solid tonight. We made a couple adjustments to our pre-game routine and despite missing four starters, our depth came in handy tonight.
Mike Routhier
We're both getting better. Both sides were missing starters today. We're all trying to get better and pick up where we left off last year.
Jamario O'neal
A lot of our starters are used to this atmosphere. They had already been here last year. It wasn't really anything new. Nobody was really nervous, because they knew this was the time to step up.
Brittney Williams
The three have moved up in the rotation and are improving with each game. We need to give the starters a break whenever possible.
Paul Hatcher
We really do have a young team. We have just two starters who started in the same position. We will start hitting sometime and Meredith definitely had a nice game for us.
Gary Hennip
Part of what helps those starters is their bullpen. Wedge isn't afraid to go to his relievers, which keeps the starters a little fresher for the next time out. Their organization set up it well.
Bert Blyleven
I don't know how good we will end up overall this season, but I've been nothing less than enthused with the progress from where we came from, ... Last year, we were very weak, had only a couple of starters and fought our way to a 4-6 season. We've come a country mile since then.
Brent Miller
We're missing five starters. We need them back, but we're winning games now with guys I didn't expect to get much playing time this season and that's good for our depth later in the season.
Scott Downing
When we played Oklahoma, we didn't really know anything. Shula was just coming in and he didn't have his offense down. The defense really didn't know what to do. Now, all the starters, we've been through this program for three years. We know everything like the back of our hands.
Juwan Simpson
This year will be more of a traditional team with more playing time for the starters.
John Parks
We're not going to change too much as far as the plays that we're putting in. It basically gives the starters a chance to get off of our feet and lets our bench get a chance to gain game experience.
Duke Crews
We replaced seven starters from last year, so we thought at the beginning of the season we might be pretty good even with losing a lot of seniors. But I'm not sure these guys thought they'd be sitting where they are right now.
Jeff Sykes
It's been a little harder than I anticipated. Granted, we were missing three starters, but I was not real happy after Marion Harding.
Vince Trombetti
It was a good game for us heading into next week. Our starters all got 24, 25 minutes of good work in. But we also know that now it is tournament time and we're not going to continue to beat people by 30 or 40 points.
Shane Foster
They're kind of a scary team. They have 13 starters back from last year and a talented quarterback. If you let them hang around, they can get excited and you can have a real scruff on your hands.
Kent Wigle
Everybody brought it tonight. Everybody from the starters to the sixth man, we all wanted it.
Barbara Davis
We're a young team with only two senior starters.
Duane Dupont
Don't forget that there are four junior starters coming back and they know they are building for next year. I'm very proud of them. It's a great team win.
Dave Strong
It was tough to lose 20 seniors that helped the resurgence of the program. They helped us win a playoff game and it will be hard to replace 13 starters on both sides of the ball.
Paul Lanclos
Everyone from the starters to our key reserves off the bench are playing at a high level right now. Getting Addie back makes us even better.
Aly Hinton
I think they're actually playing a little more relaxed. Sometimes they were sort of timid when they got out there (as starters). ... I think they're coming in relaxed and giving us a lot more. These guys come in (off the bench), they're like instant offense.
Brandon Stockton
Yesterday, I didn't know who our starters were. We've had just one day of practice with everybody there.
Michelle Young
Well, defensively we're returning all of our starters so if I don't have confidence in our defense then we're in trouble. I expect more of the same.
Robin Petrini
I have nothing good to say about the way we played. Our starters didn't exactly cover themselves in glory, and our subs almost lost a 14-point lead in the second half.
Jeff Hoyle
Our inexperienced starters are starting to gain confidence, and it's really showing up.
Craig Winter
We had an interesting game with only nine players available. We missed three starters, and all but three were playing out of their normal position.
Jeff Thorne
I'm very excited, for starters, because it means that I am now a part of this organization, ... As far as for them sending me down, I'm OK with that. I respect their opinion that it's better for me so that I can continue to develop at the rate that I have been.
Andy Rogers
On a team like this, I can be satisfied with that role. This team is capable of a lot of good things and they need a guy like that. It takes pressure off the starters if they're having a tough day and those late-inning relievers don't need to be in earlier. I'm hoping that I can be the glue between the cracks.
Pete Walker
We don't even like to say who the starters are at safety. We've played a lot of kids, and not just in mop-up situations. That's kept us fresh on defense.
Barry Norton
Our offensive line is going to be one of our strengths this year as well. We have several returning starters there.
Brett Jones
We're really banged up with four starters out, so we're trying to get them healed up. We'll be very inexperienced these next few games, but we'll try to work through it.
Travis Jackson
But, we've got everybody but two starters back, so it should be a pretty good season.
John Forster
These are the type of kids we got. They play their asses off tonight and they're apologizing. There's nothing to apologize for. We've been battling adversity since Day One, and we had five starters out for this game. They played great and gave a championship effort. What can you do when you go up against a player like that?
John Philipopoulos
I've got 24 guys and I'm going to play everybody. You don't have to worry about keeping the nine starters happy. They're playing. I want the guys on the bench to always be ready at the beck and call.
Stan Cliburn
We beat them all, ... We have talent. We return nine starters on both offense and defense.
Tom Farrell
Travis Pendleton pitched seven great innings. Brian Parker, one of our starters, came in and closed well. He'll be starting Saturday.
Don Lindgren
This is by far the best team we've played down here. We battled with them but their pitching was a little too much for us this early in the season. They had their numbers one and two starters pitching and they dominated us.
Brian Gruber
We knew Ida was a good football team and we were without three two-way starters, so I was happy with the result.
Lee Etzler
I don't have an answer. We are on a drive to win the game and we have five starters on the sideline. Right now, we aren't very mentally tough. We aren't doing anything different in our conditioning and our preparation.
Scott Martin
You probably need a seven- to nine-man pitching staff among starters to really get through a season. I would say seven, maybe eight. You're always looking for what's going to happen, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D, in case of a breakdown.
Joe Maddon
It's unbelievably high. All five starters are in the top 10 in the league in free-throw percentage.
Garrick Phillips
We were trying to play catch up the whole game. Only two of our starters had ever played spring high school ball before. We just got behind and could not play our type of game.
Linda Barkley
It hasn't been easy, ... But I've been able to keep us in the game and give us a chance to win, that's a starter's job.
Kevin Millwood
We couldn't ask for much more than that from our starters. Now we just need to get our bench more involved and we'll be in good shape.
Katie Dailey
I can't say enough about my girls. One of my starters (Morgan Monroe) wasn't here tonight and that made it difficult, but the other girls stepped up. They executed our game plan, just about to perfection.
Robert Flowers
The staff felt that starters were set. Eddy Ramos is more suited for the closer role and I thought with all the managers down here and all the administrators there's a better chance to get Timmy a job. So rather than continuing and have him throw (Monday) we just said let's make a move now.
Charlie Dowd
We executed like we were supposed to early, which allowed us to give some rest to our starters.
Mason Young
I've got to replace eight starters and I'm playing some seniors for the first time. We'll go as far as our defense takes us.
Bob Camirand
Our offensive line is going to carry us through the season. We've got four returning starters on the line.
Justin Johnson
The expectations for this team and this pitching staff coming into this season were big, ... and [the starters] got caught up in them and put too much pressure on ourselves.
Brad Radke
I'm kind of limited in what I can do. I only kept seven girls on varsity, so I'm always going to have some starters in the game. We don't have a lot of flexibility with our schedule, so we're going to have some games where there's going to be a mismatch.
Mike Quarto
We have not been playing well of late. Our big thing though is it's not how we start, it's how we finish. We have not put a full set of starters on the field yet.
Terry Pirtle
I am worried about the health of our best starters, but they have the desire to play and that makes me happy.
Manny Acta
We'll also look for Brooke Davis in the back but she will probably be more of a defensive center midfielder. Brittany Jones and Jenny Clark, who have been consistent starters in the back since they have been at Stetson, also return in the back.
Julie Orlowski
I thought we did the things we wanted to do tonight. The first quarter we played a lot of our starters and scored once with the varsity guys.
Jeff Boger
We made a nice defensive stand in the second half. They stepped it up and got it done, which was very exciting considering we have 11 new starters on that side of the ball.
Steve Hensley
Division I is a different story, but we have seven starters back from last year so at least we have that under our belt. The atmosphere will not be a total shock.
Mark Glushenko
We're thin when were healthy. We were missing six starters and we can't afford to have them out.
Robert Gibb
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
We have so many starters back we have a chance to do well.
Glenn Griffin
Our motivation was to just keep pressing and force turnovers. Our starters picked it up in the second half and considering we played without one of starters, it forced us to rely more on our backcourt.
Allison Davis
As a group, for us to make a run in the tournament, I think that our sixth player, seventh player, eighth player, ninth player, and so on have to give us the intensity that we need when they're coming in. They have to go and focus. When you're a reserve player you have to continue what the starters do. If they started out great, then you have to make it even better.
Cappie Pondexter
When we were letting the starters sit on the bench, to see what was going on on the floor ... that's just how the other part of the team feels when they're on the bench, wanting to get in. And after they saw all of that, they came alive to realize that they (would) rather be on the floor than on the bench.
Theresa Adams
I think we had a good young nucleus of players there. If you look at the team that beat the Rams, 10 of the guys on defense were the same guys who started last year, and nine on offense were starters last year.
Terry Donahue
They're both three-year starters at defensive line, so that has made a difference for us, ... But I like the size of Port Huron's line.
Mike Powell
You have to have some of the starters out there in the mix with some of the guys off the bench because you don't want to just throw five cold guys fresh off the bench.
Lamond Murray
He's been in big-league camp and he's been throwing a little more than the other guys. He can probably give us more innings at this point than most of the guys. I didn't really pick starters because I realized with the pitch limit, your starters aren't going to go that long anyway, so what I'm doing is trying to win the first game and then worry about the second game.
Matt Galante
The win over Cincinnati was huge for us. We were missing one of our starters, so everyone had to step it up. They did the job on Saturday.
Jody Bronson
Although we lost a few defensive and offensive players last year, we are definitely a better team. We are confident about our returning starters and excited for our incoming freshmen.
Tom Martin
It?s definitely a drastic change, but I don?t think its something that we?re not able to handle. It puts a little bit of pressure on us (starters), obviously. Lindsay was averaging great numbers and running this team, so I think everybody has to give 10-15 percent more than they have in the past.
Katie Douglas
Our role players have really improved. If we can get points from our other three starters, that just makes it easier for Tamara and Megan.
Melissa Slone
Everybody off the bench was equally as good as their starters and they just wore us down and broke us down defensively. We weren't taking care of the ball. We started throwing it right into their hands and they had easy points.
Nicole Goodwin
Their big players made the plays when it counted and we didn't. Still, it is a tribute to the hard work of these girls that we finished as high as we did. When the season started, only a few believed we would come this far. We only played seven girls tonight, and they had some reserves that were able to rest some of the starters.
Joe Carrington
We are going to need people on the bench to step up. We've had some surprise starters recently. Those guys and the bench players have to rise to the occasion.
Jude Temple
John and Ricky did a majority of the pitching for us last year. If we had a big game we needed to win, one of those two guys were the ones we looked to. Replacing seven starters is not going to be easy.
Vinnie Currao
He was not letting the game come to him. Starters can get into the flow of a game, and see how the flow is going.
Cary Finberg
We lost five key starters from last year, but return some key position players.
Bridget Ebenhack
The idea was to get [the starters] ready for how fast the Nets would [break out]. I got a chance to push the ball up the court and throw some wild passes. It was a lot of fun.
Speedy Claxton
I knew that [the other starters] were going to start making shots, so I just tried to keep the game close. In the second half, they all stepped up.
Eric Osmundson
A lot of young kids played. We pulled the (starters) with eight minutes to go in the second quarter. They were without two of their best players.
Eric Hansen
There's always that threat. Starters know that they have to do their jobs or there's always going to be someone to step in and do it for them.
Eleia Roddy
We've had starters down, and we've gotten better and are playing at a pretty high level.
Ed Hartwell
They (non-starters) are really getting better. When they are going against the starting five every day in practice they have really gotten better. I really think our bench is going to help us down the road.
Eddie Talley
We were lucky to survive with two starters out. Everyone stepped up.
Earl Johnson
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