Manson Hill Quotations

We're going to need them to play with the same kind of fire and emotion against Carrollton that they did in the fourth quarter against Elbert. They have been leaders all year. This senior class has shown a lot of leadership all year and we're going to need it.

We're a different team since then but I think we're just as good. The keys will be playing defense, which I thought we did a good job of against Elbert, execute better on offense and rebound. If we do those things we have a good chance of winning.

She's so versatile. She plays defense, rebounds, she can play three different positions, and she's a vocal leader and role model.

She wanted to switch, because she could see the job wasn't getting done there.

She's done that time and again and we really needed her leadership in the second half. That's why she's a great player.

She's never missed a game due to injury. When she was a sophomore, she broke her (right) wrist. So she just learned how to shoot with her left hand.

She has a deep knee bruise and we'll see how she is (Monday).

She's a great player and a great leader. It was gutsy of her to come back and do what she did. She always plays big in the big games but this definitely was one of her best performances ever.

If we can put together another good summer, we could have another good team.

We're proud of our players. We outplayed them in the second half, and we had a shot to win it.

I thought their defense in general was the difference in the game, especially against Kita. They only gave her a few clean looks and had at least two people were around her the whole game.

I think it took her about four minutes to make the adjustment.

I still say we're two of the six teams that can win state. And we're going to take this and try to learn from it.

We could have given in there and quit. For a long time, we couldn't find our rhythm, but we stayed patient and fought back.

We had some great wins this season. And our seniors (Waller, Darnell, Norton and Randolph) have been great leaders and have meant so much to us.

We kept doing things to hurt ourselves. We have to start playing more intelligent, but our team understands that.

We did a nice job of holding down their two guards out front but then we didn't execute very well in the fourth quarter and they took over the game. We can't allow that to happen again. It's going to be a tough assignment but this is the same road that Johnson took to the Final Four last year and we would like to duplicate that.

Even Johnson doesn't defend like that. They're just so quick and they can defend off the dribble so well. They used their speed and got in our faces.

(East Hall) is so strong it's hard to contain them. But I thought we did a much better job in the second half.

Erin played a heck of a game and stepped up when we needed her. We just couldn't get enough going on offense as a team , though.

The whole team played well and battled hard.

They played their hearts out. Johnson just made a few more plays than we did at the end. It was a tremendous game between two great teams.

They are a solid team and it will a much better effort than what we've been giving to beat them.

There isn't much that isn't special about Kita.

That helps a lot. Kita's been in a lot of huge games. So has Lauren Darnell. But for the rest of the players, this is pretty new.

I felt we had a good effort as a team tonight. Our goal when we got the lead late was to keep running our offense and start to take some time off the clock.