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At least they can?t give us two losses for this one. In the standings it?s no different than losing by one run.

Kevin Mcqueen

Our objective has always been third and when we get there, we'll look at second place. These next games are extremely important. The third, fourth and fifth place teams are playing really well right now and if you lose two or three in a row, it could really drop you down in the standings.

Glenn Walsh

We've been chasing Detroit all year long. We watch the standings and we know we have to win every game to try to catch them for first place.

Martin Erat

I know this group and they've got to be looking at the standings. You've got to be motivated and sharp to play these games. I think we're going to be fine.

Alain Vigneault

It's definitely disappointing. These games against teams lower in the standings, we need to beat them. That's what cost us today.

Ian Vouyoukas

It's definitely a big game. Huge atmosphere. National TV. We're tied in the standings, so it's big for both teams.

Christian Moody

You look at the standings now with the top teams at the top of the table and you look at us in last place and I feel now there is not a big difference.

Brad Guzan

A lot of people warned me we'd be losing, but hey, guess what, we're in the middle of the standings.

Salaia Salave'a

I don?t look at the standings. Just over 50 points puts us in the playoffs right now, right?

Jason Chimera

Last year we tied for fourth place with Saint Mary's. This year we are hoping our depth can propel us ahead of the Gaels in the overall standings. It would be a huge team accomplishment and big victory for the program.

Carlo Facchino

The importance of the Harvard game goes without saying. Although we've been up in the standings over the last few years, it always seems like a game decided by one goal. With the huge emotions special to this game, on any given day anyone can win.

Amanda O'leary

I'm happy to come away from rounds three and four with two more points finishes and to be leading the Rookie Cup standings. Qualifying did not go so well for me but my race pace was encouraging and I am optimistic for the next race at Oulton Park.

Niall Quinn

There's such a cluster in the middle (of the standings) with teams jockeying for position for that conference tournament. We're going to do the best we can to get our kids ready to compete every night.

Robin Pingeton

I think guys are taking pride in the notion we can play and compete with some of these teams, so why not? Why end and just mail in the season? Go as hard as you can and mess things up at the top of the standings a little bit while you`re in the process.

Joe Borowski

It was a tremendous lift for us, ... If you can't get up for an Islanders-Rangers game, regardless of where you are in the standings and all those other things, you shouldn't be playing.

Mark Parrish

When you look at the standings, yeah, if we win, we can be in first. If we lost, we can be in eighth. It's so close. Every game is so important. It's like a playoff game.

Patrice Brisebois

I think we're kind of where we thought we'd be (in the standings). But there's still a lot of games left to play.

David York

I would really like to move up in the standings from where we finished last year. I'm looking for the women's team to make a big jump up.

Jack L. Warner

There is still a long way to go but it's easier to work hard when you are on the top of the standings. I'm certain that we can still improve the level of our play. We are not at our best yet.

Laurent Fournier

We feel the data is still quite relative, substantively, ... Most labor market [indicators] really don't change that rapidly so even the truth of it is still fairly accurate. People's relative standings--one group to the other--those kind of things don't change very much from year to year.

Heidi Hartmann

We've been close (in the standings) all year. I don't care if it's one point or 12 points (Cedar Rapids is) still a great team and we are going to have to be at our best to beat them.

Regg Simon

It's always easier to play in big games because the emotion really drives me to want to succeed. Every league game is important for the standings, and it's impossible not to get excited when playing in front of the home crowd at Ingalls.

Alec Richards

It's never too early (to look at the standings). Every game counts and this could end up hurting us in the end.

Pat Daley

We're disappointed at this point that we didn't take advantage of the opportunity to do well in this field. Our goal tomorrow will be to play our way into a top-five finish. We're going to bear down tomorrow and see if we can move up in the standings and get a good finish.

Polly Schulze

In the MAAC every team can beat any team any night. Everything is really tight in the standings. Winning all these home games is really important.

Jon Han

We lost the momentum be�--�--fore we started. I think the momentum started shifting Thursday after the Nordic races. They got us out of a hole. Friday night, we improved our standings slightly. It was great to see the effort. All four days, we went through some anger, anxiety and joy at the end of it.

Richard Rokos

It was great to begin like we did, but it won't mean anything if we don't have similar results this weekend. We have to stay at the top of the standings.

Angelle Sampey

When firms are going through distractions, those who aren't so distracted may have an advantage in the two or three deals that make a difference in the standings.

Roy L. Smith

We'll do better next season. We'll have statistics and up-to-date standings on our Web site. And we'll probably have 16 teams in the playoffs. I think 24 teams this season is too many.

Joe Newman

Obviously the DeWitt game is big in terms of pride, and it's a great environment between two local rivals. But in terms of state standings, it's just an exhibition. We're 0-0 in the MAC right now, as is Davenport West.

Mark Bloom

You try to stress the importance of this game for the kids. The kids knew what it meant in league standings and if you look at our conference now, Broomfield and us have a two game pad over the closest competitor. You can afford to stumble and still have a chance. So it was definitely an important game for us.

Doug Holloway

We have enough experience as far as our performances are concerned that we know what we have to do. We're going to stay calm and do what we do, and let the standings fall where they may.

Craig Buntin

Coach keeps emphasizing that we have a long season to put ourselves in a good position in the standings. It's time to do it now.

Justin Bowen

We can't look at the standings. If we play the way we are capable of playing, we will reach our goal.

Mike Scioscia

This was a must-win situation. It's very disappointing. Now, every team we play is ahead of us [in the standings], and we have to try to focus on beating all of them.

Karron Clarke

We've got Battle Mountain on Saturday, and I think that is a game we can go into and be competitive. We want to improve as a group and the standings will take care of themselves.

Tom Taucher

We've been trying to catch them all year as far as the regular-season standings, and we couldn't do. Now, we get to face them in a best-of-seven and that's a challenge we want.

Marty Williamson

The 17th team at the tournament are the referees. We will see where they end up in the final standings.

Aleksandrs Starkovs

We had to have it for ourselves. We were down two places in the standings coming in. It was a character test. The kids had to either step up or step back. They stepped up, did a real nice job. We had kids who had to have a key game and they did.

Bernie Driscoll

I haven't given (the standings) much thought. Obviously, we have to look a little bit. I know about where we are.

Sean Bergenheim

We're the top two teams according to the standings. Whoever wins is in the driver's seat, so we've got to take care of business.

Curtis Terry

I'd have to say right now he's probably looking toward the top five in the point standings, ... even though I'd love to believe that he could still get the championship.

Kyle Busch

As far as the standings go, this game didn't mean much. But it meant a lot to us, just to prove to ourselves and to everyone else that we could beat them. They beat us this year, last year and ended our season in the playoffs last year. So we were starting to wonder when we were going to catch a break against those guys. That's why this game is so big for us.

Jason Walker

When you look at the standings, it's all jumbled up. There's still plenty of games. But you don't want to give up games that could come back to haunt you at the end of the year.

Bob Hartley

It feels really good to win our last home game, especially since this game meant so much in the standings. We tried to stress that to the team, that fourth place in the league was up for grabs.

Ashley Pelzek

It is huge going into the break getting a win against the best team in the league and then to come out today and beat a team that is below us in the standings, ... That is the object of the game to win games and make the playoffs.

Clint Mathis

We really need it. Our confidence is always there, but we'd feel a lot better as far as the A-10 standings go. We really want this game bad. It's going to be a big game.

Will Caudle

We are not going in like we have in the past, to get in the top 10 in the team standings. We are going in there to take care of ourselves in each individual match and the team score will follow.

Brad Penrith

We try not to look at it (the standings). Each game we win it's closer and closer and hopefully we're going to continue the next few games to keep winning. Then we can think about the playoffs.

Jozef Stumpel

This isn't being published for the academic community, albeit the academic community is keenly interested in it. From a student and parents' perspective, to know the relative peer standings of a school is important.

Robert Morse

We have to start believing. (Our standings points deficit) now seems manageable.

Brad Shaw

They were ahead of us in the standings, so it was good to bring them back toward the field.

Pete Fenson

Keep in mind that we are only halfway through the season, and there remains a lot of football yet to be played, ... So it's impossible to address the dozens of hypothetical situations with the BCS standings.

Dave Frohnmayer

But, when you see the standings every day, it's tough to consider this the dog days. So, mentally, it's pretty easy to get focused. Physically, obviously, it's a challenge. The Olympic year has compressed the schedule. The games are hard and fast, and look at the teams we're playing - Vancouver, Vancouver, Nashville, Minnesota, Edmonton.

Andrew Ference

The way the standings are looking, we still think 6-3 is into the medal round, for sure.

Shawn Rojeski

A win this week would mean a lot, ... It would put us up there in the region standings and it would be a win over a big rival. I've never beaten Stanhope. But we believe if we work hard, we can beat them.

Joseph Pierce

It's huge. We've got eight games against them and 16 points to play for. Probably the guys who win the most games is going to be above in the standings, so it's going to be really important to win those games.

Henrik Zetterberg

Nobody likes to be considered a rollover or a laughingstock. I think guys are taking pride in the notion we can play and compete with some of these teams, so why not? Why end and just mail in the season? Go as hard as you can and mess things up at the top of the standings a little bit while you're in the process.

Joe Borowski

We're happy because this was a big win for us and it puts us ahead in the standings. They did enough to get the job done.

Nathan Waite

This game will have a big part in the area standings. I hope we can keep some consistency.

Taylor Hart

We've been decent on the road, so it doesn't bother the kids that much. I don't think it will be a breaking point. I'd rather be on top than at the bottom of the standings.

Donna Capps

In the points standings, I'm kind of far out but, if I ride well and someone else messes up, then anything's possible, ... It would have to be a crazy situation for those guys ahead of me to really mess up, but you never know.

Ryan Nyquist

I feel like the message we want to send is that we're going to be moving up the standings board. Going into Wisconsin and playing 120 minutes of solid hockey is our goal. We want to go out and get some league points this weekend.

Jackie Barto

We can't worry about the standings or watching the scoreboard or any of that kind of stuff. We just need to work on getting better.

Humberto Cota

I picked up a lot of games in the standings. To go to a team that's only a couple of games out in the division and leading the wild card, that's great.

Michael J. Tucker

We're not where we're at in the standings if it isn't for Andy. He gives us a chance to win every night he's out there.

Bo Cheesman

Before these two games we had trouble scoring and we knew what these two games meant in the standings.

Michael Ryder

This was a huge conference win for us. We're tied with Rogers Elmwood now at the top of the conference standings so this was big for us.

Connie West

We look at the standings and we know we're not where we want to be.

Nils Ekman

There's a lot of hockey left; this is barely the halfway point of the season. We're not going to just sit on this one point lead. Standings are funny things; we can't focus on them. We need to focus on the next game ahead of us, and take each game one at a time.

Don Vaughan

We went into today with the idea that we were going to move up in the standings. We didn't get the chance to see where we could have finished. But it was still good to get out there and play and I'm optimistic heading into the next tournament.

Pina Gentile

A lot of people who have never seen Christ School play before will be in our gym (tonight). It's a wonderful opportunity for our team. At the end of the day, this game doesn't have any bearing on standings. I just hope we come away from this game feeling better prepared for the rest of our schedule.

David Gaines

The nice thing about competing down there early is that we have nothing to lose. It's not going to affect our conference standings. It gives the younger runners like Olivia an opportunity to check things out.

Sarah Mccabe

I've battled so many injuries this year. Right now, you look at the situation -- where we are in the standings -- why keep risking my body? The best thing for me right now is rest. Let these other guys play. I don't think I have anything to prove to anyone.

Jose Guillen

That's the main reason for where we are in the standings.

Gerry Fleming

All the hype about us being the greatest team, then you look at the standings and we're in the cellar. We've got to win some games and get going in the right direction.

Al Mccullock

The girls were really hungry for this one. They didn't want to settle for a tie with REV (in the standings).

Mel Wilkins

It wasn't a perfect night but we certainly have positioned ourselves into a best-case scenario to be fifth or sixth in the region when the new standings come out, which is much better than last year. I feel like the team is on a roll right now going into the championship portion of the season. We're anxious to get home the next two weeks and then take it into the Big Ten championship.

Carey Fagan

You definitely want to know where you are, and every weekend can present an opportunity to jump up in the standings drastically. The parity in this league is wild every week, so any and all points we can pick up make a big difference when all is said and done.

Joe Zappala

You definitely do keep an eye on who you might wind up playing. I don't mean all the time. But just by nature, you look at the standings, see where teams are. It's interesting to see the races. We're fans of the game, also.

Shandon Anderson

I picked up a few games [in the standings]. It feels good to go to a place where you know you have a chance to go to the postseason.

Michael J. Tucker

They were sniffing behind us in the standings and playing great, but we came out hard.

Peter Schaefer

We aren't going to worry about (standings) points. If we win the game, we should be in good shape.

Jamario Moon

It's always good to have a win going into the weekend. This weekend is really important for the MAC standings, and I think our guys are ready.

Scott Stricklin

We seem to find ways to win these tight games. We needed it for conference standings and regional ranking.

Nikki Fennern

We sat down a couple of nights ago, after we lost our second game, to Italy. We were disappointed with the loss, but one encouraging bit of news was that we knew we still had to play everybody who was ahead of us in the standings. We realized if we would win out, we'd get to the medals round..

Shawn Rojeski

The newcomers in the conference all should be strong right away. Kennesaw State won a division II title and should come in immediately and dictate the standings. UNF was a division II powerhouse and ETSU should come in and have an immediate impact as well.

Julie Orlowski

There should be a new way to record standings in this league, one column for wins, one for losses, and one for gifts.

Gene Mauch

They were fast girls, and there were a lot of them, but with a swim here or a swim there, we probably could have moved up a few spots in the standings.

George Philpott

It was a must-win situation for us. It was a couple of big victories. We moved up the standings right away . . . we moved up from ninth to seventh. We're two games out of a playoff spot right now.

Todd Warnick

It was a great game. It didn't matter for the league standings, but it's a nice rivalry we have with those guys -- capacity crowd, intense environment.

Scott Merzoian

This is a game that we have to have more than from a revenge standpoint or that we lost to them in the MAC championship. In the MAC standings, we're closer to the bottom right now and they're closer to the top so it's a game that we have to have.

Calvin Cage

It's very tough if you hit into the deep rough on this course. We'll just go back out there and do our best tomorrow to move up the standings as high as possible.

Sakura Yokomine

If you look at it from top to bottom we've played everybody above us, so we've just got to take care of our business and think that we can go out and win games against teams that are below us (in the standings).

Rick Ellis

I really haven't been looking at the standings. I'm just ready to go out and play. I know if we win we have a chance to move up.

Joe Miles

I expected to win three. We're just trying to move up in the group standings and get into the playoffs.

Erik Simonsen

If we had worked like this from the start, we may have been at the top of the standings now.

Zlatan Bajramovic

This was a big win in terms of the District 1 (Class) AAA playoffs. We are two games ahead of them, and there are two automatic bids from the league. It was a big game in that respect standings-wise.

Ernie Quatrani