We really have picked up the offense in our last three conference wins. You have to like the momentum that we carried going in to spring break.

We want to keep the momentum we picked up with that win over Australia.

This could have been a momentum builder going into the conference tournament, but we couldn't rebound ... If we could have gotten one more rebound in the last five minutes of the game, we could have won.

A few times we lost the momentum again, with penalties. This is a team with a lot of offense up front and they're really going to capitalize on our mistakes. They did that early in the game, but we stuck with the game plan, came back and got some goals, and then at the end we got the bounces. They weren't pretty goals but we'll take them and get the first win.

People haven't been picking us all season. We weren't even picked in our own [Pacific 10] conference.

We didn't want to get blown out or get embarrassed, being that it's an Eastern Conference team. We picked it up.