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It was a good battle, both ways. I was proud of how our kids hung in there and overcame mistakes that we made, and kept playing.

It was a good battle. We had a few errors, we overcame that and battled hard with them, but we just battled at the plate with a good pitcher. We had people on base every inning but the third. We had some opportunities, but we just couldn't pull it out.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

The girls played beautifully. It was probably the most intense game I've seen them play. They overcame a lot of nerves and anxiety to rise up. I'm so proud of them.

The guy scores goals, that's what Jason King does. Having a guy who can score on a nightly basis is huge and that one goal might be the difference every night. He's a great player and a good guy to have in the locker-room. He's a character guy and brings a lot to the table. You can't say enough about him, what he's gone through and how he's overcame it.

The guy's just a winner. The guy has overcome a lot of adversity, he changed positions in college and overcame the knee injury and now it's stronger than before that injury. He's done everything that's been asked of him.

These guys overcame adversity. They persevered through it all.

It's a long road ahead of us. We know we have to sweep them to get back into this thing, ... We have four games to get it done. We were in the reverse role last year. We were up three with nine games to play and the Angels overcame that and went to the playoffs. Hopefully we can do the same.

It put more pressure on him. A couple of our injuries were defensive players and it makes the goalie have to be that much more on his game. That can be frustrating. He never showed that on the field or publicly. But it's frustration you could see. He overcame that.

It's usually pretty tough on the road and that is where you usually get into trouble, but we overcame that and played better.

They are distractions, but they are distractions for those three individuals more than anyone else. You can see with grown men in our league, you have to overcome any type of distraction. The (New Orleans) Saints are the best example with what they overcame to win (at Carolina). I don't think it will have an effect on the team.

They happened to be black and overcame racial prejudice in 1966. They did a good job of showing that.

It wasn't pretty, but we did what it took to win it. After we got into the game, it came down to one at-bat, one pitch at a time. We overcame a lot of adversity.

It wasn't pretty, but we did what we had to do to win. We took it one pitch at a time and overcame adversity.

This team accomplished much more than anyone, including me, expected. They overcame adversity and lots of youthfulness and did a fantastic job.

We tried to create a little bit of an identity as a team today. I'm proud of the effort that we put in and the way we persevered and overcame adversity. The big thing that this team did today was they had a little tenacity, a little perseverance. And I think that's something you definitely need in this league relative to the competitive balance and what you have to do to win games.

It?s good to get a win like that in that kind of atmosphere. Your best big kid, your point guard are both in foul trouble ... We overcame a lot.

It's been a pretty up-and-down week, but I've got a great family, coaches and friends who helped pull me through it. I apologized to my teammates for missing the game. ... We have a lot of people who don't want to see us succeed, and we overcame a lot to win our second straight state championship.

I believed in our group this past season, as well. While we did not achieve what we needed to, this group worked to deal with various obstacles, and I am proud of their efforts - especially their work in recent weeks (finished on 9-1-2 run) when they overcame significant odds to almost attain a playoff berth after we dug a huge hole for ourselves.

He's one of the best defensive players I've ever coached, so when it happened nobody got down and they overcame it.

I am very proud of the way the boys overcame their past, and the way that the younger girls stepped up and helped out the team.