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She played solid defense down the stretch and really stepped it up.

She played excellently on that end. It never shows up on the stat sheet but defense wins games.

She played excellently on that end, ... It never shows up on the stat sheet but defense wins games.

She organizes the inexperienced defense and helped them understand their roles.

Sheridan was maybe a little better than everyone thought. Our defense played well and the offense did at times. It was hard to get a rhythm because we were playing a lot of people.

She just does everything. She passed well, she played great defense and she rebounded well. It was a well-rounded game for her. Sometimes we sit over on the bench, and all we can say is 'Wow'.

Brandon Roy

Mike stretches the defense out so much. Late in the game I started getting fouled a lot because I started penetrating the middle and guys didn't know whether to help or not because Mike had hit six or seven threes.

Eddie Jordan

Mike Miller just hit some impossible shots. I mean, some of them were indefensible from where I was standing. He made great shots, and they turned up their defense on us.

Minnesota, traditionally, is always a strong team. They always have solid pitching and defense and they play fundamental softball. Their record really doesn't reflect how good they are.

We have had to work on our defense so much this season, because we are such an offense-minded team. As the season went on, we realized that that work on our defense was really going to help us. It did tonight.

We're hanging our hat on our defense right now. We got a little worn down, but we played well. I was proud of the defense.

We're good at home, and our defense always makes things a lot easier for us on offense.

This win gives us a lot of momentum after a rough stretch of losses during the middle of the season. We've done a great job since we went to a new defense during the second half of the season.

Marcus Johnson

Lots of time we'd come down and make one call, then the defense would be something we didn't expect and we'd have to make another call. It gets tough but we just need to get better at it.

Last year was a struggle in a lot of ways, ... Defense really hurt us last year. We're used to some pretty tough defenses, and that wasn't the case.

Last year, the defense was young and inexperienced and the linebackers moved around in different positions. Everybody's used to playing where they're at and we're communicating well.

Last year Terryville played us tight in two one-goal games. Their defense was just as tough today,

Last year's game greatly motivated us. We knew our offense was good enough to win. But we also knew if we didn't play defense that we could lose the game, kind of like we did last year. We picked up the defense, picked up the intensity and took the win.

(LeRoy) is playing his tail off. He's really, really helping out on defense. It helps our pitching to have a shortstop playing third base.

Terry Hoeppner

Many people will say, Division I-AA, gosh, why did Indiana struggle? But this is really a good football team. They played very well. Their defense gave us problems, and obviously they ran the ball way too much.

Scot is a tremendous player. I look forward to him anchoring our defense on what I hope will be a very strong team in 2006.

Scoring, that's something that comes and goes. I figure if I play solid defense and do the little things, it helps your team win games.

Scoring runs has been the key for our season. You can see we're not scoring runs efficiently. It doesn't matter how great your defense looks. You've got to produce runs. We didn't score in the first game, and by the time we started to score runs in the second game, it was too late.

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She's (Strickland) come on so well defensively the last few games. She plays super defense, did a good job on the (Erica) Rivera (at Pasquotank County) girl and a good job up in Hickory, and she moves her feet well, and she hit some big shots.

She's starting for us this year as a point guard. She's a shooter and very competitive. Her role is to score and play defense 95 feet.

She's so versatile. She plays defense, rebounds, she can play three different positions, and she's a vocal leader and role model.

Michelle Gardner

She was the spark plug. She played great defense too.

We're going in thinking defense first. We're going to try to shut them down and get some offense off of our defense.

Tony Banks

We're glad to get this win over a good team that played great defense all game. This is our seventh straight trip to Troy, and we feel fortunate to be able to go after fighting for this win tonight.

We're just going to have to make sure that our defense and intensity are there. We have to understand what we need to do defensively and help each other out, and hopefully we'll be able to stop them.

Like I always say, defense wins games. Today once we settled down, we made a lot of big plays.

Luke's execution from the point, and his defense on Fischer was big. Luke has grown a lot this season.