With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure [like a hardy crustacean]. We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Gail Sheehy

[The present was exciting Friday. When Felix hit the stretch in lane 6, she was behind Arron to her inside and Campbell to her outside.] I was worried, ... It looked like she was four meters behind. There was considerable daylight between her and Campbell and Arron.

Renaldo Nehemiah

The problematic aspect is that the bankruptcy laws that are designed to facilitate that sometimes stretch things out.

Sam Peltzman

We made a living the last year and a half closing games out down the stretch. We'd get to the foul line, make baskets and close games out. We didn't do that (yesterday).

John Rositano

Sentiment on this name is pretty weak. It's not like in prior years, where meeting estimates wouldn't do it. It's not a great blowout quarter by any stretch of the imagination, but they were able to show a little growth from the fourth quarter and that's at least a good sign.

Darren Chervitz

My horse just got a little tired down the stretch.

Brian Sears

We were able to make some plays down the stretch. We tightened up our defense and offensively we knocked down foul shots and open looks.

Pat Miller

[Granville had a 100 percent graduation rate for the 2003-2004 school year. Newark had 78.1, while all other county schools exceed 90 percent. The state's graduation rate is 85.9 percent.] We are by no stretch of the imagination happy with a 78 percent (graduation rate), ... The greatest single education issue we have to deal with is our drop-out rate.

Dan Montgomery

Good teams make their free-throws down the stretch, and you need to do that. That kept them at bay.

Mick Price

They got aggressive in the last stretch offensively and defensively, and we got out of synch.

Jessica Huggins

We went up two goals and kind of sat back. Everything that they got, we gave them. If we?re going to make any noise down the stretch, these things can?t happen.

Vince Williams

As soon as I got to the top of the stretch I shook him up and got an immediate response. In the stretch, once I knew he wasn't going to get beat, I put my hands down and he eased himself up. He's a real smart horse ... and he's very deceiving. He just covers a lot of ground with ease.

Ramon Dominguez

Phil had another big game for us. He and Chris had all the big rebounds for us down the stretch.

Ted Woodward

We really hit a turning point in our win over Iowa Western. That win answered a lot of questions people had of our team. It's a matter right now of staying focused heading into a tougher stretch of matches.

Tori Fowler

It's been real frustrating. The kids played their hearts out tonight. We've done this for the most part all year. We just can't get over the hump down the stretch. We have a four or five point lead there, but couldn't hold on.

Dennis Hopkins

We were able to hit our free throws down the stretch.

Sara Williams

It was a hard-fought battle between two teams. Lourdes came in very well prepared, the difference was we hit some free-throws down the stretch in the fourth quarter.

Kerry Koonce

We're obviously disappointed with the outcome, but we just did not do the things down the stretch to win the game. We just need to learn from this, but we also need to move on.

Cindy Timchal

Experience showed at the end. We turned it over down the stretch, and they executed and sent it into overtime.

Michelle Hall

Thomas made birdie there and I thought, 'Here we go. It's down the stretch now'. But I've been in that position before and decided to just try and make my par at the last and let Thomas try and come at me. Fortunately it worked out.

Hennie Otto

I'm not going to make the call right now. But if she continues to play well, and steps up, she'll continue to play. I'm waiting for the time when a goalie will separate herself, then you know when she will become the go-to goalie down the stretch.

Jason Lesteberg

Fifteen percent upside from here, taking the rolling P/E ratio into the mid-teens -- that would not be stretching it at all. I do not think it is really going to peter out here.

Paul Kavanagh

Our kids hung in there and made some big plays down the stretch.

Brett Graham

Our first customers will be experimentalists. They are the people who go to download sites and are interested in cool, sexy network utilities. This is also filtering up to corporate executives who are always on the road and have a wireless device. It can also stretch horizontally to early adopters like well-versed IT managers looking for new killer applications.

Jeff Mchugh

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin Chantal

He's a burner. That's his thing. He can fly. He's a legit 4.4 (seconds in the 40-yard dash). He's so fast you can't cover him, and you can't play him man to man. He can really stretch the field and open things up.

Brian Turner

Each game is going to be a statement for us that we're ready, and whoever plays us is going to have their hands full. As long as we take care of business and do the things that we did in the Washington game, like fighting back and keeping our composure, down the stretch we should be OK.

Chris Rodgers

We had things under control, but it slipped away. Credit Plano, they executed down the stretch.

Ron Hunt

Nick Flannery had a nice fourth quarter. We had a tough time containing him. We had too many turnovers down the stretch and they made their free throws.

Travis Sysko

This was our most impressive win of the season. We showed tremendous poise down the stretch, hitting 8-of-9 free throws.

Ollie Goulston

This would not be financed by anything more than leverage of customers and utility assets - $6,677 per customer. That's where the debt will lie. They say their financing model is not unique. They are really stretching the truth.

Roger Schrum

We've been through a couple of quarters with a lot of uncertainty around the subscriber numbers, so the last thing I want to do is put out a number that is a stretch.

Cfo Dennis Kavelman

We're really in a vacation stretch now. For a number of ski areas . . . the month of March is the biggest month of the year.

Greg Sweetser

Twelve hours. It can stretch out forever when you're waiting to hear the report on a biopsy. It can literally evaporate when it's the last hours spent with a dying loved one. Or, it can bring hundreds of people together in the fight against cancer through Relay for Life.

Sheila Blankenship

[The team] really stepped up their intensity and played intelligently down the stretch. Every win makes us head in the right direction. It's always a good feeling to get a win after you haven't won in a while.

Tom Garrick

He's been playing exceptionally well. In the LSU game, he was the guy they went to down the stretch, so we know he's good. But we tried to pick our poison a little bit. This is a team with a Hall of Fame coach and a lot of good players.

Andy Kennedy

We got into our tempo and were more assertive about getting shots that were in our comfort zone. We ran the floor and were able to stretch their defense with our fast break.

Robb Floco

There's no question Ernest was huge for us during that stretch.

Ted Woodward

We knew it was going to be a close game. It was just a question of who could make the most plays down the stretch.

Willy Child

It ain't over by any stretch. Crazier things have happened.

Drew Neitzel

The game plan was a good one, but down the stretch we didn't play good defense. We just need to be more aggressive. If we go down, we go down. But let's go down being aggressive.

Sharon Dawley

At that point it looked like it might be slipping away and we just kept chipping away one week at a time. Before you know it, we were on a real good run down the stretch.

Tim Whitehead

Thomas Campbell came off the bench and did an excellent defensive job in the fourth quarter. Smith hit a big three down the stretch. Everybody contributed.

Mike Stallings

Personally, I felt improved. I felt I was able to stretch the field a little more. There's been kind of a misconception of my play, that I can't throw downfield. That's about all we did in high school.

Alex Brink

I think the team played hard but we made way too many turnovers in the second half. We did a very poor job of execution down the stretch.

Josh Knecht

She is throwing lightning right now. She'll be our main pitcher down the stretch, and I think she'll be one of the top pitchers in the county this year.

Christa Delucia

They just played a zone and we didn't shoot well from the outside. That was the difference in the game. We didn't shoot well and they made free throws (12-of-19) down the stretch.

Brent Liskai

Everybody can score. A lot of teams have one player they look to go to down the stretch. A lot of teams have one player they look to run their offense through. With five or six guys almost scoring double figures, it shows the teamwork.

Darrel Owens

This might be the toughest stretch of the season.

Wade Dubielewicz

We had a stretch of about two minutes there in the second period where we came undone. We stayed with them well until then.

Jim Genuardi

Down the stretch, that's what loses games for us, free throws and big rebounds. In practice we've been working on it, everybody's been coming in before and staying extra to work on what they need to work on.

Julian Sensley

I think we all dug in down the stretch and showed what we were made of. It showed the character we do have. In the huddle during the last TV timeout, we all talked about pushing harder. If we can do that for 40 minutes, we'll decide some games earlier.

Dontell Jefferson

If we don't defend we don't have a chance against anyone, and our kids have bought into that. We had some nice stops defensively down the stretch.

Troy Graefe

We wanted to guard them closer. But I didn't know they were 0-for-10. They came out with more intensity than us in the first half. I think the fact that we have played so many close games helped us. We have been here before and we knew how to play down the stretch.

Mike Reynolds

I really needed a start like this. It's been frustrating the last four or five weeks not throwing like I would like. This one today will give me a little confidence going into the next stretch of the season.

Cliff Russum

I'm proud of our basketball team. Without question, I think we saw, from both teams, some big-time performances out there with some very good players. All and all, I think we really executed well, especially down the stretch.

Ron Everhart

Marshall likes the quick game. We will try to stretch the field and do a few things.

Raymond House

It was a complete stretch to get it to do that, which saved the mission.

Claudia Alexander

These are functions they don't normally do every day. We're using the horse as a tool to help stretch their muscles out. And when you flail your arms out like an airplane, these are fun things.

Anne Larson

His scoring went down at the end of the season, and that was because of two reasons. One, down the stretch, every team was stepping up its defense against him. And two, we had more people scoring for us.

Bill Specht

One idea that I toyed around with is that dark energy is a complicated network of rubber sheets. If you stretch them, you have to provide force and because of it, the sheet gains energy. The universe expansion is much like stretching this network of sheets, which increases energy.

Hitoshi Murayama

That four-game stretch felt like 10 games. Some because of the way we lost but mostly because these guys are winners and we expect to win.

Jeremy Moore

Our defense did it. In the fourth quarter they were tired, their shots were short. But our offensive execution was excellent down the stretch, as well.

Dave Forster

Down the stretch we came up with some big plays. Just not enough of them.

Jason Floetke

We had them on the ropes. We just didn't make the plays down the stretch at the end of the game to win.

Gene Boley

But we didn't play down the stretch, and we didn't respond. We just ran out of gas.

Brian Holsinger

That's how each opponent is going to view us now going down the stretch. It's down to the wire for a lot of people, and they need a big win. We've got to realize we need that win just as bad, and we're going to go out and compete as hard as we can.

Dane Bradshaw

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heaven.

William Lilly

They outplayed us down the stretch. We didn't play in the fourth quarter. That was the difference in the ball game. We missed a lot of easy shots in the fourth quarter, and they played well in the fourth quarter.

Charles Berry

I don't think that by any stretch of the imagination you can say that the cap has contributed to lower prices. In fact, it has led to higher prices.

Jack Suyderhoud

Our bench was key to our success tonight. If we can continue to play this well down the stretch, I think our team will continue to improve each game.

Kermit Davis

If you have a bit more money to spend and you want to spend it on the organic product that is a bit more expensive, by all means. But if you're working within a budget and finding that you want to stretch those dollars ... you should feel good about buying conventional produce.

Mary Riley

This kind of puts us in better standing in the league, so it helps us out a lot. People might look at the game and see a miniscule win, but every win is big heading down the stretch.

Rulon Washington

During that third-quarter stretch, they got just enough of a cushion to spread us out. We had to chase them, and that wasn't a good situation for us.

Vince Lombardo

(SHARE) provides people with healthy food. It's a way of helping everyone stretch and extend their food budgets. It helps all families.

Karen Gibson

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William Whewell

We're just looking to get back into the flow of things. We're hoping to sharpen our skills and execute our offense and defensive schemes. Getting to see other quality schools not in our conference is also going to help us out down the stretch.

Debbie Casto

The past four games have been the toughest stretch of our season.

Bobby Bowman

You look at first round of district, we were in every game down the stretch. Just a couple things here or there and we could easily have won.

Shawn Almond

It's not just the numbers. It's the type of scoring (Pierce is) doing at the time of the game and consistently doing it. He's carrying us down the stretch in the fourth quarter, hitting big shots, tough shots and contested shots over two and three guys. He's been phenomenal.

Raef Lafrentz

We're hoping to put together a stretch of three or four games here that can help us. That's so big - just being consistent as a team and taking care of business on offense and defense. It seems like we're doing one or the other; it would just be nice to put together 40 minutes of both.

Carolyn Hunter

The kids did a good job of handling the ball down the stretch. We did an outstanding job of defending. We held Kraft, who has scored a lot of points in the district, to seven points.

Allan Bertram

My main focus was not to kill the bullpen. We've got a crucial stretch coming up with Anaheim and New York so my goal was to go at least five, and I did that.

Joe Kennedy

We had to have the mind set that we were going to win. We kept pounding and executing down the stretch, believing things would go our way.

Adam Root

They can go down the field and stretch the defense, which is what Ben did. He went straight down the middle and caught a touchdown.

Patrick Pass

I was on my own for the last 300 meters. It was a long stretch, but I was able to bring it home.

George Hincapie

We played with heart and smarts early and with guts down the stretch. Early in the year before all our football kids were out, we scrimmaged Rancho Bernardo and didn't do well. Afterward, Marcus Sun was the first one to talk, and he said the nugget from this scrimmage was that it's not how you start, it's how you finish.

Randy Wright

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Cindy Mannes

I felt like we've done a really good job of coming together when we needed to. We've played a lot better down the stretch in the last month or six weeks when we've needed to. We've really come together defensively. It's been a month since any team has scored more than 40 points against us, so we've done a good job defensively.

Bill Peeper

Hallie hit some big free throws down the stretch to ice the victory.

Mychal Williams

The first part of the fourth quarter we went through a cold stretch. I'm pleased with our effort. We played hard, especially against a good team.

Tom Hoppe

We gave up or something. We came out strong at the beginning of the first quarter and third quarter, then at the end we just died out. We didn't have no energy down the stretch.

Rodney Jones

I came back to the British Masters and started messing around with the belly-putter after being inspired by Vijay (Singh) at New Orleans, holing all those putts down the stretch.

Trevor Immelman

I always wondered, well could you go from A ball to the Major Leagues? It seems like a long stretch. Most people feel the game really becomes a game from Double A up. You've got more prospects, more of an understanding of the game. I think it was nice to be considered, knowing I still have a possibility to go from A ball to the Major Leagues.

Randy Ready

It remains to be seen how many people go down the stretch, but Tech will be one of them certainly. They're very talented, athletic and deep. Obviously, they're playing well right now.

Dave Loos

Pedro has pitched great for us. He's a guy we need down the stretch.

Bruce Bochy

We had a couple of mistakes down the stretch and that cost us the game. Tech is a great team and they put a lot of pressure on an offense. We felt like we could move the ball and we were able to, but they made a few more plays than us at the end.

Joshua Tinch

Right now down the stretch here every games huge. It was a big two points for us and I was pretty happy that I got a few goals there.

Alexandre Burrows

We stood toe-to-toe with Schuylkill Haven and, except for a two-possession stretch late in the third quarter, held our own. We matured as a team tonight and hopefully can carry this effort into the District 4 tournament.

Pete Long

We did a good job early in the game and took a 12-5 lead. But then we hit that bad stretch and it hurt us. We kept battling back, but we have to eliminate those runs the other teams put on us.

Kurt Melton

We forced ourselves to make more plays. We'd shoot ourselves in the foot, but I'm pleased with the way we made extra plays down the stretch.

Dave Bike

They out-rebounded us in the second half. That's how they got back in the game. But we made our free throws down the stretch and it was really Nick Comstock who won the game for us.

Frank Rossi

(Boone and Latham) are game players. Those two tie our inside and outside together. They did their jobs well down the stretch.

Lynne Agee

With a couple of bounces here and there, it's a different game. Our shots just didn't fall down the stretch.

Bill Specht

He threw the ball well for a guy making his debut and not pitching for a while. I think he'll really help them down the stretch.

Jack Wilson

You know, in the big picture, to win conference this year was a real stretch. Give the kids credit. They believed in themselves and they worked hard for this.

Jeff Schweitzer

They only used six guys against Southside the other day. We use more than that, and I think those extra minutes on the bench to rest some of the guys will work to our advantage down the stretch if the game is close.

Joe Belyeu

Give Carson credit. Their kids didn't fold down the stretch when they got behind. Their kids responded.

Rob Streeter

We were kind of wanting to build a little momentum down the stretch. We're playing hard, we're just not playing very smart.

Porter Casey

We made more plays down the stretch than Bushnell and that's all there is to it. It's a simple game. ... You've got to make baskets and you've got to make stops. In the fourth quarter, we got more stops than they did and that's what it's about.

Dan Watson

They outplayed us down the stretch. We took the lead but we couldn't get a stop and build on it. When the game was on the line, they made the plays and we didn't.

Kip Drown

After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality.

Paul Gross

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Brian Urig

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

When you start running that back stretch on the second lap, you're pretty tapped out then. You still have to hang on. The good 800 runners can run a slower first lap and run the second lap faster. And that's tough.

Mike Holz

He tried to stretch it to a triple, but he gout caught up with the third baseman a little bit and jammed his neck. They ended up having to carry him off the field on a stretcher. It was a scary thing to see.

Tim Lockwood

At the beginning of practice, the coaches would be off to the side talking about what we needed to work on, and Albert would be leading the stretching exercises. He is a natural-born leader.

Russ Horton

We pulled through after a really rough little stretch (in December) and played some great basketball. But in the broad scheme of things, people didn't think we could accomplish this much. We played really well.

Jackie Turpin

We're trying to build on how we finished last year when played well down the stretch.

Jim Johns

E.J. has been in a slump and kind of down on himself and those two threes were big for us down the stretch.

Marty Manfredo

Since I've got here, Darrell has been the guy in my mind that scares people the most with his ability to get off press, his ability to stretch zones and his ability to run after catches.

Trent Dilfer

It was a very disappointing loss. We didn't do what we needed to do down the stretch for us to win the basketball game. Creighton did.

Tony Dicecco

We realize the toughest stretch of the season is here.

Billy Donovan

Right now, when you can get fresh legs for down the stretch and get people into the game who haven't played all year, but do really well, that gives our team a lot more confidence.

Diana Taurasi

We expect 2006 to be the year that 2005 should have been. We project strong employment growth – 2 percent or better – that will begin to stretch many segments of the local labor force.

Lyssa Jenkens

When we reached 15 or 16-0, we were kind of afraid to lose. We had a stretch of five or six games in a row where we played not to lose and played very timid.

Brady Stuckey

We knew they had to foul down the stretch and shoot threes and make us miss. It was big to finish like that. It really started to sink in when I was shooting free throws. It's still sinking in. It's big. It's the 2A championship.

Kyle Coston

We're still playing hard. We're going to get one (a victory). We want to be playing our best team basketball down the stretch, and we're getting there.

Willie Schlepp

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

Dr. Frederick Leboyer

During that good stretch last year, he showed that he could keep the ball down and throw his off-speed pitches behind in the count. It's an ongoing process, but I'm confident he'll do all the things necessary to take that next step this season.

Jason Larue

When a crisis is unfolding, you don't think of it as competing for time and resources. Everyone needs to stretch--keeping focused on running the business and doing what needs to be done in the face of intense need. You have to do more.

Bob Myers

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

George Chapman

We didn't intend it to go this way, but sometimes you have to overcome obstacles. We're doing it right now in the beginning of the new stretch, but we're going down a long road ahead of us.

Vincent Grier

We only trailed by six points with 1:30 left in the game. Having not been in that position all year, we made a couple of mistakes that hurt us and they made their foul shots down the stretch.

Ross Hart

Mike Scott has been giving us great defensive presence all year. The rebounds he got down the stretch were very key.

Jim Christian

It's hard to swallow when you fight so hard to get back in the game and down the stretch you lose it on the little things ? loose balls, key rebounds and free throws. It's always hard to lose games like that.

Stromile Swift

We left too many free throws on the board (down the stretch). Turnovers in the second quarter came because we weren't playing well.

Mark Pixley

We have to use all 32 minutes. We got frustrated in the third quarter. I thought we did some things down the stretch that can help us.

Scott Severance

They did what they had to do down the stretch, and we didn't. That sums it up.

Milt Palacio

We're coming back to some of our favorite cities to make sure the fans get a chance to see how this tour has evolved over the course of the last 50 shows. Bruce just keeps stretching the boundaries of his performance night after night, and the result has been some of the very best concerts of his entire career.

Jon Landau

It really hurts when you get some questionable calls down the stretch.

Robert Horry

Whenever you get the chance to represent your country in a World Cup, it's a great honor. It's a chance to show the world what you've got. I'm looking forward to it. I do wish, though, that I would be able to stay here and play with D.C. a little bit more, because this is an important stretch for us right now.

Freddy Adu

We got a little pay back, as they beat us by seven points in our gym. We came out of the blocks well, something that we haven't been doing, and shot well early. We made our free throws down the stretch and played good defense all game.

Mark Tinker

Planned Parenthood offends religious people with its key chain that shows a portion of the famous painting from the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo gave us a beautiful image of Adam stretching out his hand to God, with God's index finger about to touch Adam's index finger. In Planned Parenthood's blasphemous version, God is handing Adam a condom.

Jim Sedlak

You look at a team like Creighton which has struggled with injuries and things like that, but they still have a roster of veteran ballplayers. For us to be as young as we are and finally be able to show some poise during their runs and execute down the stretch, it says a lot about how far our team has come in the last month.

Robin Pingeton

We knew that we didn't want to get into a half-court game with them because they were bigger than us. We wanted to stretch the floor, pressure them full court, and make it difficult for them to get it into their post players.

Mark Hermann

This one is the best, ... It's September and we're coming down the stretch, where every game is magnified. Being able to do it in this situation feels pretty sweet.

Ryan Langerhans

I thought we moved the ball really well in that stretch. We just got everyone involved, and it's tough to guard when you do that with our offense.

Andrew Brown

Gunter had a nice outing. I think he's a little more comfortable out of the stretch, but he had great stuff today and shut them down after we scored.

Gary Mcclure

We're on a mission to win the West and get homecourt advantage and every four-minute stretch is important to us. We stayed focused tonight.

John Whisenant

I'll do whatever I could for this wonderful country we live in. But you know, this is kind of stretching it a bit.

Sonia Goldstein

There was a stretch there where we just couldn't make a bucket.

Corey Thacker

It sounds like they played with a lot of pride down the stretch. Anything can happen in this league, and that definitely gets our attention.

Jeff Horner

Sometimes you get the word out there and the game's called differently. I've seen it before where coaches have been in the media and games have been called differently the next night. It's not a bad idea on his part. It's all part of the gamesmanship that goes on in the stretch drive.

Mike Grier

One thing about conference is, the games are going to be close. A lot of games will be won down the stretch. . . . Colorado State is one of the best teams in the league. We need to be ready right away. I still think we are capable of doing what everybody expected us to do when we have a full roster. I still think we can prove the (media poll) right. But nothing is going to be given to us.

Brandon Heath

Gibbs is our money free throw shooter. Down the stretch, there's not a guy on the team I'd rather have with the basketball in his hands than him. He's got ice in his veins and knocks those free throws down.

Mike Wright

The diamond did the job tonight. It created important points for us down the stretch when we needed them.

Randy Morrison

You lose confidence after a while and start believing that you can't win games down the stretch. The guys stepped up. We got pretty much every rebound we needed to get, and that was a confidence booster for us.

Ibrahim Jaaber

Because I don't remember any script I ever saw in Hollywood as wild or imagination-stretching as this autobiography yarn has turned out to be.

Howard Hughes

She hit some big shots for us coming down the stretch. We tried to isolate her at the top, give her a chance to go one-on-one.

Jody Grant

When they came back and tied it, we just had one stretch where we couldn't take care of the ball. We had only 10 turnovers in the game, but we probably had half of those in those few minutes.

Phil Anderson

I think it's about an even-money proposition that UPM will come back with another offer. The concern in the market is that either side is going to end up stretching it to $80 per share, and then it becomes a little more difficult to justify.

Mark Wilde

There's a reason the Spurs are the defending champions. They really execute down the stretch. They just don't make many errors, and if you do, they really punish you.

Scott Brooks

That's when we seemed to get focused, whenever that happens. Our kids have been in some tough, close games, and we realized if we get the ball in the right people's hands, we're going to make free throws down the stretch, and that's what we did.

Curt Dobbs

It's bad enough when you have a lot of driveways created along a stretch of highway. It's worse to have driveways created at an intersection where it is known that traffic is on the increase. It's not good business.

Mayor Richard Mavis

Eric's just got a great ability to score and be a playmaker for us. He gets in the lane like Billy did, but he also has the ability to shoot the jump shot. He's a double threat. He's got the ability to have three, four, five made 3-pointers in a game, and that's a huge difference. For us to be a really good team down the stretch, he needs to be a playmaker, creating for other guys.

Mike Hopkins

You can't spot a team 12 points and expect to come back. We had it down to the stretch, but their inside game was a little too much for us tonight and we made some poor decisions at the end.

Colleen Mcgarry

It's pretty clear to me the first eight or nine years are covered. We might have to stretch in the 10th.

Chuck Schalliol

We kind of went through that stretch where we lost some leads. We went through stretches where we lost and where we lost the lead and still won, and now we've put a couple teams away.

Kyle Korver

Huron put a lot of pressure on us down the stretch. Our ball-handling has been a problem, but we did just enough good stuff to get by.

Kraig Blomme

I don't think it's blown by, by any stretch of the imagination.

John Fortier

It's going to be tough. One thing we have to try not to do is get off to a slow start. They've got a lot of height with the Clapper girl but the thing I respect about Newark Catholic is that everybody plays their role. We'll just try to stretch the court out 94 feet and play our style.

Will Mckinney

That was the difference - they made their shots down the stretch and we missed ours.

Donald Thompson

Sweeney gives us a scoring punch. Having him go down definitely hurt us, but we made too many mistakes down the stretch.

Bob Alaniz

Their second-shot opportunities down the stretch killed us. A lot of defense takes a lot out of you.

Sean Brown

They made a run and we kept it close. We had our chances down the stretch. I give them a ton of credit.

Kelly Mathews

(Indiana) likes to stretch you across the field with that offense. It was a great defensive game plan by coach (Matt) Smith.

Pat Murray

We gave it our all the entire game and everyone was willing to do what it took to win. They just made the plays down the stretch.

Tomas Brock

He really took the kid and made him earn everything he got. All the kids played great. Judd (Spencer) stepped up, as did Austin Laing. They both hit some big shots down the stretch.

Ryan Bowman

It looked like a three to us. This was tough, kind of good and bad. It's good we could play with them. But we should have beaten them. We just couldn't get any stops down the stretch.

Craig Craft

It's unfortunate. The kids wanted it real bad É we had our opportunities. They made a couple of buckets down the stretch and we weren't able to counter it.

Al Graves

We don't want any more morale victories. We don't want to just come close. We've come close too many times. We want to win. We played hard, but down the stretch Illinois made more plays.

Dion Harris

I think Paul makes the big plays down the stretch that keep us close. (Saturday) he basically went one-on-five to bring us back against the Orlando Magic, who were basically there to stop just him.

Brian Scalabrine

You have probably been hearing about how well they've done as far as integration goes, how steady and slow they've gone. The ... earnings here are really core earnings, not about ... stretching by security gains or one-time items. Their reserves are strong, the future looks strong for them.

Diana Yates

It came down to free throws. In that stretch when we got to the one-and-one, I think we made only one. We could have probably iced it at that point.

Robert Flowers

We're a very streaky team. It doesn't seem to matter whether it's the beginning, middle or end. In this type of game, you score one basket in that 12-minute stretch you win the game.

Tom Young

The tough part was that when it mattered, during a certain brief minute stretch where we could've taken control of the game, we turned the ball over.

Bonnie Rosen

A lot of it came down to that we missed a couple rebounds on free throws that cost us down the stretch. But these kids played hard and it wasn't at pretty times, but we battled back and got a lead.

Mark Terlip

We set up some plays for [Jackson]. We reminded him that he is the guy who needs to do the job and I thought he did a good job of taking control of things down the stretch.

Tim Loomis

We were able to weather the storm and stretch it out to 10 or 12 points.

Dick Franti

They hit some tough shots down the stretch. We're giving up 22-foot shots that are going in and they're not even hitting rim. Give them a lot of credit because I thought for the most part we had a hand in their face.

Brent Dugan

They played tough. We made a couple mental errors down the stretch. We'll have to play better than that to beat SLV. It should be a great game.

Charles Burks

It will probably stretch out, because we'll be doing a single shift, through mid-May.

David Neumann

We hit some key shots down the stretch. We played great and had key steals.

John Hurley

We were struggling to find a way to beat how they were playing us. It was a bad stretch in the first half. We just didn't seem to have the same flow as we usually do.

Jackie Turpin

I think their defense had a lot to do with that. That's a very good team that we lost to, very well-coached. We had some decent looks in that stretch and we just didn't make them.

Mike Fergus

In some sense that fear of not dropping the ball can really hurt you, in terms of not stretching and kind of going off in interesting new directions.

Will Wright

We're gonna keep at it. It's another one that's disappointing, but there were positives that came out of it, like that stretch of (five) minutes where we outscored them 13-0. That's promising.

Kurt Cunningham

That's the driving force with him. It's fun to watch a kid that sets their mind about doing something. Last year he missed five weeks but was a big difference maker for us down the stretch.

Bobby Halford

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David Salmon