We had some good attacks at the net in the first game and sort of established ourselves at the net.

It feels good to get it and to get it quickly. I'm pretty excited. I was a little nervous coming in and there were probably some first-game jitters for the girls. But I saw something that we can build off of from here.

We really played a sloppy match tonight. I am tired of saying that we did not play to our ability, but it is the truth we made some communication errors and let our guard down. We could have played a lot better tonight.

That will be a first for me as well, first road trip as a college head coach. It will be a good test for us early on. I want to see how things play out.

Realistically, we thought of this as a game that we should be able to come in and win. With the experience that we have back and with what this team was able to accomplish a year ago (when IUS qualified for the NAIA National Tournament), we had high hopes coming into the year.