Chris Yoder Quotations

Possessing the ball in the middle of the field is our main goal. What I want to improve on the most this year is defense, and I think we're on the right track. Everyone on the field is playing defense really well.

We're playing so much better now than we were just two weeks ago.

We'll probably play both Amy and Libby for now. The doctors want to bring back Libby slowly.

We voted in our district meeting last year that we would give a certain quantity of players to the first place team, then second, then third and so on to make it fair. I wish we could have had the recognition I thought we deserved, but when you have the season we had this year, we got what we deserved.

We've just been unlucky. We've been taking shots that will eventually fall. It's a mental thing.

It will be tough. This is the first group of girls I've coached for four years here. I had hoped it would be better this season. This group has and will leave its mark for years to come.

They are great girls. It's just that things worked out that they didn't get a lot of playing time. They have been great all four years.

Horn got as many scoring opportunities as we did. We were just able to capitalize.

They were a physical team. They were skilled all over the place. Last year was our wake-up call.

It's the last two games of her senior year. She's not going to miss this.

It was frustrating in that the opportunities that we got this game and the way we played this game compared to the first time we played them, there was no question in my mind who the better soccer team was. It just didn't show up on the scoreboard. Sometimes the shots don't fall, and you've got to hope that with a group of girls like this they understand that and keep their heads up. This is the best we've played, honestly.

We're going the right direction. They're going to be something. I told them I couldn't fault them for anything they did. Defense played great. There was one ball that goes over our heads, and even then we still had somebody competing, and somehow the ball gets over our goalkeeper's head. Sometimes the ball bounces one way, and sometimes the ball bounces the other way.

This was the best we've played this season, all three games. We played really well, even the Nacogdoches game (a 1-0 loss). We lost on the scoreboard in that game, not on the field.