Law beat us earlier in the season. So we're looking forward to playing them.
We were very flat and we simply didn't play very well. We trailed the whole game and just couldn't put anything together.
We played very well and we got great balance.
We played very hard defense all game. I think we just wore them down. We pressed the entire game and I think they just got tired.
We were down all night. But the girls would not quit. We outscored them, 18-13, in the fourth quarter to tie the game, 53-53, and then we won it in overtime. We made huge free throws at the end of regulation and in overtime.
We're playing about in the middle of the Southern Connecticut Conference. We're beating the weaker teams, in fact, we're winning those games handily. But we're not playing well against the better teams. We need to improve so we can be more competitive against the good teams.
Brittany Jackson had only six points for the game, but she had five of those in the fourth quarter when we really needed them.
Derby came out all fired up. They had a pep band and the place was noisy. They played us close for about four minutes. But we were just quicker and more physical than they were. We forced a lot of turnovers with our full-court press.
It was a funny kind of game. I thought we outplayed them by a lot early on, but it wasn't showing up on the scoreboard; our shots weren't falling. Still, we had a good lead at the half, a lead we gave away in the third.
The kids played with a lot of fire and that's good to see, especially on the road.
In both games we played very hard defensively. In the North Haven game, we were really energized and wanted to run. We got back to our full-court pressure defense and our running game. We moved the ball very well and had a terrific first quarter. We did a lot of things really well.
In a lot of our games we've gotten off to slow starts. That wasn't the case tonight.
Hillhouse is a very, very good team. They play basically five girls, but they're outstanding players and every one of them is quick. They had us turn the ball over far too often.