Sally Zimmerman Quotations

Obviously we're disappointed, but we're happy we got this far. We had a lot of weapons to deal with in Rose Hill, but things just didn't go our way.

She has been doing that for us all year.

She's been doing that all year. She did it in the district. She loves this type of atmosphere. It's in her blood. She doesn't have any fear.

We've been using the strength of our schedule as a motivational factor for a while now. We've seen Assumption, Mercy, Franklin-Simpson, Butler, Manual and a lot of other really good teams. I think our schedule paid off in the regional, and hopefully it will help at state.

Our goal was to attack them on offense. Their size hurt us a lot, and the zone kind of got in our way.

I think their size hurt us. Terry and Queen hurt us inside and out. Both of them played really well and we had trouble against them.

I thought we had a chance to come back. Once we cut it to six, I thought they'd tighten up, and they did.

I thought we did a much better job getting to the line in overtime. That's our game and we got the ball to the rim. We did a nice job taking care of the ball and forcing them to come out and foul us when we got the lead.

Those were big-time free throws for an eighth grader.

We learned from the first two meetings. We wanted this third game.

We feel we can step up against anyone and make our press effective.

Offensively, we need to keep attacking the basket. There were times in the regional tournament when we stopped doing that. And our press has been pretty good over the last half of the season. We need to continue getting points off our defense -- that's something this team builds on.

These two wins were huge. We beat two quality teams. Now the secret is continuing it into district and region play. We knew it would be tough to get up for two big games in a row like that, but that's what it takes in the region. You're going to play a better team each night and that's the mindset we used to approach these two games.

They'll go with a small lineup with good three-point shooters and try to drive and kick it out. We've made some adjustments that we think will help against that, and we've been fine-tuning our offense. At this point in the year we've got to be able to adjust to what others teams are doing within our offense and defense.

They just have a lot of weapons to deal with.

Against the zone we don't want to hesitate. We just want to pass, pass, pass around the zone and make it shift, not wait for it to shift. Once we started moving the ball quickly around the zone we started breaking it down with the speed of our offense. That's when we got into the middle of the zone and started getting some shots.