I have never taken part in them (Commonwealth Games) and it is a great motivation for me because this year they are in my country.

It's been exciting. We have gone back and forth, back and forth in our games. I am just proud of these young guys for never giving up. We played well, they countered. We countered, they came back and then we came back again and held them.

It was big motivation. Also, if we take care of ourselves in the couple of games left in the regular season, things will work out for themselves - and they did (Thursday) night.

You have to find different ways to win games and that's what we were able to do. We didn't have some of the prettiest goals in the world, but they were goals. We wanted to find out if we have the caliber of team that can take it up a notch when we have to and we did.

Even though we lost two games, it's a long season. We can get better.

The last two games, we played some good teams - Fullerton and Pacific. The players and coaches know that we can play a lot better than what we have been. For the rest of the season, we feel and we hope we'll be a lot better than we have been the past two weekends.