We were down 6-2 at the half, but we came back and scored some goals. It was one of our best offensive games this season. The problem is that we're having a hard time working together on defense. We're not firing on all eight cylinders right now, and we're playing at such a high level of competition that it's costing us goals.

Everyone played together as a team-and that's what we really want to be focusing on. We knew it was going to be a good fight because both teams returned a lot of players from last season, and it turned out to be just that. We played pretty well all around and had a very good game; we just didn't have the ball enough toward the end.

Nicole had some great saves today. This is only her second varsity game, and she is coming up very big for us.

We had a good strong regular season. We accomplished some of the goals that we set for ourselves and now it's about going in here and buckling down, coming out executing defensively and offensively and really putting it all together, because the reward is sweet if we do.

The guys who are supposed to be scoring are scoring goals, and the guys who are supposed to be stopping the other team from scoring them are doing it.

It was nice to get five goals by five different guys. It's nice to get contributions from everybody.