The second and third quarter we were just really flat. When we started to crawl out of that hole, it was just too late.

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You have to have so much lead time to go out and market. What-ever we do we want to do really well. ...
JANE BLALOCK They (West Hall) just executed better than we did. The key was we gave them too many second and thir...
DEBBIE BLAKE We woke up in the second quarter and really started playing hard.
COLIN CUSHMAN They punched us right in the mouth early, and we never responded. Finally, late in the second half w...
JEFF MORROW Wow, we barely got by a team that wasn't ready for us. Our first and fourth quarters were really goo...
JASON LAMB We just dug too big a hole. We were way too careless with the ball.
TOM HERRION We came out flat to start the second half. I thought we would really play up. But we missed some sho...
BOB MURPHREY I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought ...
BRAD RANSON We dug too big a hole to get out of. I'm really proud of our effort and the fact we battled back so ...
LARRY BAKER We just dug ourselves a hole and had to fight back all game. And it was tough to dig out of that hol...
CURTIS HINES Everybody just started rushing out of the house and they didn't realize that my nephew was still ins...
HARRY TICMAN We never have good third quarters. We just came out so nonchalant and so relaxed. Then it takes us a...
CHARLOTTE JONES I thought Pinckneyville came out and did a great job in the third quarter of taking away what we wan...
DAN WATSON I think we kind of underestimated them. We came out tired. When we realized that we weren't playing ...
KELLY DUNNE I was just happy with how aggressive we were at the plate in the second game. It seems like we had t...
ERIC MCARTHUR We really fought and scraped and finished the first half well, which we hadn't done of late. But the...
BETH BURNS The one thing we didn't do well was get defensive rebounds. They just had too many second and third ...
SARA SCHOPPER We just came out flat in the first half. But we played better in the second half. It was a learning ...
JULIE MCGRAW The third quarter we normally come out to play because we really want it, and that's the time when a...
BRIAN BILLINGS We played well for about a quarter and a half, but after that we didn't play well at all. When we di...
JAMES BLANKENSHIP We started off the second period and the Senators looked like they were really moving out. They came...
ERIC PELTZER We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field go...
AL JONES After the third quarter, we were able to settle down and really get after it defensively.
KRISTI SNIDER It was upsetting. My third child was just getting out of high school, and we were looking at college...
EDWIN WELSH The girls worked at it and they stayed in the game, even with facing a huge deficit. They never gave...
DAVE HYLAND The one thing I was concerned about (going in) was our conditioning, and that showed up in the secon...
ALAN SORENSEN The third quarter just wasn't our quarter. We just didn't play, I don't know what to say ... we just...
ENOKA LUCAS It really does. After the first game, I was really impressed that we were able to do it. In every se...
HANNAH KIRK We were struggling in the first quarter then our defense picked it up. In the second quarter we star...
LUOL DENG We came out really strong in the third quarter.
KYLE MCALLISTER We were all just so devastated after Friday. We came out in the second half and really put it togeth...
NICK ALLEN It really didn't affect us. We were really motivated after that happened. We were just ready to play...
COREY BROWN Coal City played really hard, and when you shoot that well from the line, you're going to win a lot ...
NATE SPRIGGS Second quarter was crucial because we were down and we could have quit. (The bench) got us back in t...
DAVE GREENBERG I thought we played very well in the first half (against London) and I thought we had a lot of energ...
JOE LANG In the first half, we were just kind of flat and got out of what we (like to do).
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The second and third quarter we were just really flat. When we started to crawl out of that hole, it was just too late.

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