Lori Blade Good Quotations

I was pleased with the kids effort tonight. We were good defensively all four quarters, which is what we need.

The pitching and defense have been very good all season. We thought at the beginning that we would have a good pitching staff and good defense and they've done very well so far.

She put a good swing on it and that's what happens when there's no fence out there. She hit the ball hard.

That didn't help. We were in the middle of a comeback and that foul sure didn't help things. But we got good shots after that, they just didn't go in.

I think Eryn did a good job in the second half. We'll be just fine once we get used to the changes we have to make. Eryn is capable of running the point and will do a good job for us.

We had our chances and that's scary against a good team if you don't take advantage of those opportunities. You usually don't get very many.

We had a tough first half shooting and we had some good looks. They just wouldn't fall.

Credit Tammy and those Alton kids. They played a great game and had a great game plan. We had some good shots and couldn't get them to go down tonight, but we didn't quit and Anya on the boards was huge.

We had a couple of lapses today, but overall it was another pretty good day. The is the best start we've had since I've been here.

Civic Memorial is a good team. And if we can get past that one, then Taylorville and Alton are no slouches, either. Like I said, we're going to have our hands full. All of those teams are capable of beating anybody on any night.

I don't know if you get a break anywhere. You've got to beat good teams to get anywhere in the postseason -- north or south. I know everyone thinks we got a break but postseason is postseason. If you don't play well you're not going to win a regional anyway.

This is a good start for us. We've worked really hard on hitting. We've got to be able to score some runs to help our pitchers out. We did that today.

These kids have been through a lot between the injuries and the disciplinary actions. But they've stuck together. I expect them to make a good run in the postseason.

They're good defensively but we took some poor shots. Our shot selection, especially in the second half, was very poor.

They're a very good basketball team. We didn't play our best game tonight and they did. So the credit goes to them.