Mike Ward
Mike Ward
defensive kids played
Our kids played with a lot of heart. It was a big defensive struggle.
adjusted hit lead played river third until valley
Once we got the lead River Valley adjusted and played pretty even with us until we hit another spurt in the third quarter.
came hard learning played proud team
I am very proud of the team. We could have folded at halftime, but they came out and played hard and battled. We are a young team and we have been learning all year. This was another one of those lessons. We did not give up and I am very proud of that.
fast work
We think we are fast and we have to work that.
coming hunter passed turn unless
I don't think I could have passed Hunter unless he made a mistake, ... He slipped up coming off turn two, and I was able to get under him going down the backstretch.
folks match trying
We are trying to match folks with the needs,
game goes hand hard rebound running shot teams tend
When you are running well, teams have to get back so they don't tend to rebound well. It kind of goes hand in hand. They were one shot and out, and it's hard to get back in the game when you are doing that.
incidents past
We've had some incidents in the past that we wanted to address. Things are getting unbelievably better.
beef good taste
I got some beef broth that'll taste real good about now.
ball curve hitters impressed kept
I was impressed with (Ellis). He got the curve ball over, and he kept our hitters off balance.
scoring
She did things for us that will not show up in the scoring column.
huge tonight
She does so much for us and tonight she got some huge rebounds.
kids knew monster stressed sure
She is a monster on the boards. We stressed to our kids to make sure we knew where she was.
appetite higher obviously people pound seem witnessed
Obviously people seem to think that there will be an appetite for one as witnessed by AZN being a pound higher than it was this morning.