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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Losing Samantha hurt, but we still ran our offense and had a chance. Sometimes when you lose the hea... DICK STEELE We had three good shots in the final minutes, only to be stopped. Our fullbacks played a great game ... GLENN HATCH The girls worked hard all season. (Saturday) our shots wouldn't fall. They played hard and fought th... DAVE FOWLER We felt good going into overtime. We had worked hard to get into overtime and had momentum on our si... MIKE CONNELLEY We came out and played very well. Overall, we worked really nicely on defense. We had good team move... DEBBIE KLOCK We moved the ball and ran the offense early. We showed patience but then Bellevue turned the tide ba... DICK HELLER The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make ... BRIAN URIG We did what we needed to do. Zumwalt West really came at us, especially in that first half. Our girl... KRISTY BUSH Our problem tonight was not defense, we just did not get the ball in the basket. We had good shots, ... LONN REISMAN We did a lot of good things tonight. Our backs ran hard and (junior quarterback) Gavin (Johnston) di... DEAN CAPPEL This was a solid win. In a close game, we did a good job of executing in the last four minutes of th... ANDY MANGIN We were driving to the basket, had some good low post action and we ran our offense very well. CEDRIC SIMMONS I thought we missed a lot of shots that put us in a bind. We did not execute too well on offense, bu... LOUISE JOHNSON The last two minutes of regulation and then overtime we played with a sense of urgency. DENIS FREEMAN Overall, we ran really well. For our first meet of the season, the second week of September, we look... ERIC HUNT It was hard getting back into it. But as a team we did really well today. All the girls had good tim... ASHLYN STUMPF The intensity was really high. I think Sean (XU coach Miller) has a tremendous team, without questio... ANDY KENNEDY To put him under the gun in his first game, Shea did well. We didn't really throw, but we didn't rea... DOUG LUKE We had lapses in our defense, and Portsmouth took advantage of it. Barton and (Irish) did a number o... DICK PRATT Give Orion the credit. Their kids played really hard. I like their team. They do a lot of things wel... CHUCK GRANT I thought we played a really good second half. Clear Brook took control of the game in the first hal... LYNN MCDONALD The zone forced them to use a lot of clock in getting shots. We did a good job on (junior guard Chel... LUKE VAIL In the first half, our defense was erratic and we had a lot of shots rim out. But in the second half... KAREN STEPHENS It was hard. We make no excuses but we had no offense, we got into foul trouble and we did not get a... JENNIFER HARTSHORN The shots just didn't fall for us. But we won't hang our heads. They (Mavericks) are a great team an... SCOTT PETERSON It was a good comeback win after losing the first match. The girls played really hard, we were aggre... JANIE MCCARTHY I really felt like our offense never flowed very well. They did a good job of taking us out of our o... LISA BLUDER I don't know what it is with us and triple-overtime games. We don't get overtime pay, so we might as... MIKE D'ANTONI We missed some big free throws in overtime and that bothers me the most. We had our opportunities. W... KIP DROWN If we knock down a couple shots, it's a totally different basketball game. At the end of regulation ... BRET REEDY We really haven't played a full 40 minutes of good defense all year but we did that tonight. And we ... JAMAL DURHAM When we went to the half-court trap it bothered them and we picked up our defensive intensity. We we... BECKY CARLSON Our girls ran okay today - this was not one of our better races. Aside from that, Heather Mitchell r... ROD SHURTZ We had studied them (Friday), and the one thing we always have to do, since we're not as powerful, i... AL ROSEN They jumped on us early and we never really recovered. Our shots didn't fall for us early on. That b... LUTHER RILEY It was not like they played good defense. We had wide-open shots all game long. We could do whatever... JIRI HUBALEK For our confidence, this was a big win. We had a good day on offense. We drove the ball, we ran the ... MAURICE WILLIAMS You have to give credit to Valley's defense. They played hard, rebounded well, and made their shots.... LUKE KELSEY (Philip) not only ran hard all night but he played well defensively, too. He really had some big hit... CHRIS PARDUE We had a couple of chances there at the end of regulation. It went to overtime and I thought we were... LYNN MEGER John Hoch really took control for us today. He's one of our senior leaders and he might have had his... CRAIG HAASE We feel proud. We worked really hard. But it's a new season now. What we did in the past put us in g... SHAY DORON Erica Atkinson continues to hit big shots for us. MYCHAL WILLIAMS Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Our guys played great in overtime along with at the end of regulation to get back into it. We made t... MIKE DUNLEAVY We kind of worked on our offense and things that we need to do real well. We were moving the hitters... JOE SANDERS We controlled the first 10 minutes. Mike had three really good chances. The rest of the game was rea... ANDY GATES It was an emotional roller coaster. They had their highs; we had our highs. I think our conditioning... CAMERON BENNERMAN We just couldn't make shots. We got good shots and the girls played hard. We played good defense and... CHAD OLSON We had some quick, one play and out scores, which really helps our offense. We did a lot of good thi... GARY VICINI I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made ... THE FALL We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't pl... CHRIS ALLRED We've had a phenomenal season. Our girls have worked really hard and our scores have gradually impro... EVELYN BLALOCK We played pretty hard. We had a little trouble the first 50 minutes. We didn't really play our game,... DAVID AEBISCHER I can't even describe the feeling I'm feeling right now. The girls have worked so hard. We've had ou... FELICIA LOFTON We just worked the ball inside and made some good shots. With the majority of playing time on the be... ALAN KIRK Our defense created easy opportunities for us on offense. And our starters showed good patience with... DWAYNE OLINGER I thought we had a lot of chances, I really did. The shots just didn't fall. LYNN BRIA I thought we got a lot of good looks on offense. We ran the floor well. We looked opposite and that ... BRIAN BRANDTNER Overall, our pitching has kept us in games, and that's why we're kind of hovering at that .500 mark.... LAWRENCE SCULLY We had the three-overtime game against Maize, and then overtime again tonight. But I'm really proud ... PHIL ANDERSON I felt we had to improve defensively, and the kids did such a better job of tackling and worked real... CHARLES SWANN Esko was really tough. They really ran the ball so well. I was afraid for a while they'd worn our pl... CHUCK BENDA Our offense wasn't really in sync tonight. We had some good looks and we didn't put the ball down. D... CURT DE HAAN I think the offense did really well. We did some good things too. ROC BELLANTONI The girls all ran well and we had a good showing. It was nice to see Megan come back and put in a go... DAN TUCK We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from tho... DYNELLE TADLOCK All we ask of our guys is that they take good shots. The shots we took tonight were good shots, shot... PAUL GRAY They all ran pretty well, but Amy Meyer had a particularly good race. Having a full team pumped the ... BOB SWANK We could have put up a little bit more shots just to get our offensive flow going. We worked hard. W... CAMEO HICKS I think we're peaking at the right time, and we adjusted decently tonight. One of our goals was to w... CARI STRANGE They stayed with us for awhile. But we really began to get our offense going late in the second and ... JACK NELSON The guys played good. They really got after it. I thought we took the scouting report to the floor, ... BARRET PEERY Both teams played pretty good defense, but Midland ran their offense better than we ran ours. We're ... DENNIS HELMS The girls fenced really well today. After the first meeting with them we went back and worked harder... JENNIFER SALMON To finally get a national championship - she worked so hard and she deserved it. It is hard to come ... RALPH WHITE Six goals in 180 minutes is good offensive production and if we can carry those numbers into the fal... JANET RAYFIELD We ran really well, ... We ... LARRY BELL We played real well in the first half. We took care of the ball, executed our offense, and knocked d... KRAIG BLOMME We reacted exactly like we should. We had to put a stop to the bad stuff happening before it got too... PETE CARROLL It was tough in overtime. Maybe we ran out of gas. We should've won the game. We had them up four wi... TONY PARKER The score sounds worse than it really was. It was a really competitive game. The girls did a good jo... BREEZE SCHULZE Coming into the game, we had everything laid out on offense. If they played zone, we had to get a lo... LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE We had plenty of opportunities to win that game. We could not make a basket in that final minute and... LINDA KILPATRICK We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I thought we played well. I think offensively we did a good thing because their pitchers were pretty... LACEY SCHANZ I'm not really concerned with how many points we gave up. That's fine for us. What we did, we didn't... HAROLD WILSON Jake did a good job for us on the mound and really did a good job keeping their offense shutdown. JOE ARCHULETA We never got in a good flow. Our shots weren't falling early and we never really worked our way out ... BO BECK They were really clinging hard to Ben. Ben does a good job distributing the ball, and we got the sho... TRAVIS BROWN The first two games we did really well. Central is a very athletic and very skilled team. I thought ... MICHELLE BARRETT We had a tough loss last week, but this win really does help our momentum. We didn't let the game sl... ALAN HAFFORD We didn't hit shots. We were getting the same exact shots in the second half, and they did not fall. BRIAN GOLUB I thought we really played them well, but we had some costly turnovers in the closing minutes which ... DWIGHT RAWLINGS The girls worked really hard for this and now they're enjoying the fruits of their labor. They were ... GREG SCHEPANSKI These were two very good teams that played right down to the wire. We had our chances. We were in a ... BRIAN MCDERMOTT Our offense wasn't good toward the end and we just wanted to pull it out. We've really been working ... SCOTT DEJONG They were hitting their outside shots, we weren't playing really good defense for a while and our of... CAITLIN HYDUKE We weren't sure how well we were going to do. We just knew we had to do our best and hope the judges... BRYAN JONES
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KATE ATKINSON I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that ... ROWAN ATKINSON Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw. RON ATKINSON I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think ... ROB ATKINSON Ideally, who you really want in that position is an entrepreneur who has built a small business into... ROB ATKINSON We've been in recently to quite a few creative agencies talking about what we can do from an outdoor... ROB ATKINSON We know what techniques work best and what technology people should use for any particular brief. ROB ATKINSON Andy Eastwood is our new offensive coach and he's helping us with our man up offense. We had trouble... ROB ATKINSON We've had one practice. I gave them Saturday off. We're going to keep doing what we do. You don't ha... RITA ATKINSON We need to be patient and move the ball well. We need balance with an inside-outside game. But if we... RITA ATKINSON One of the reasons for our success this year is clearly that 13 kids came to practice every day and ... RITA ATKINSON She said they're a perimeter team .... They're scrappy, and they push the ball up court on the fast ... RITA ATKINSON The guys just come to our gigs to pick up girls, if nothing else. NICK ATKINSON But we have just found the more we play live in the UK, the more people have started to talk about o... NICK ATKINSON I guess it is better for people to talk about us than not talk about us. NICK ATKINSON In the future we'll have to change our name to the Rats or something, NICK ATKINSON