Glenn McAninch Quotations

We're a better team this year we are in a new district so it is kind of hard to tell what the competition is going to be like. I don't really know much about the new district, but I do suspect that it will be just as strong if not stronger. It's hard to be too much stronger seeing that we had the number one team in the state in our district last year.

She was quick. We'd talked about it a couple of times at halftime. She'd run at us a couple of times in the first half. The back had pushed up that side trying to score. She got in behind us. They took the opportunity when we attacked to counter-attack.

She had a very good game. She had a lot of saves, she saved a penalty kick. She had a very good night.

She made a lot of runs out of the back for us, she played a hard game.

One of our biggest strengths have been defense and I expect it to stay the same this year. We have a team that have been together for a long time. We can rely on our defense to hold even the best teams to low goal totals, but we need to score more, we need to get forward more and get the ball in the net.

One thing that plagued us tonight was our offense was good until we got to the penalty area. We didn't continue to play the same game. At points we controlled the ball for a long time.

I expect them to go out and play their best each game as a team. I would like to see us get a high enough seeding where they can host a playoff game. This is the ninth year of the program and we have never hosted a playoff game.

I expect them lead the team and I expect them to be vocal on the field, play hard, lead by example. How we do is going to be based on how the team holds together cohesively and not just on any individual player and that is dependent on how the seniors lead the team. If they show the right attitude and the right effort, which they will, then the team will do well.

Lauren is our best one-on-one player when we get her in those (one-on-one) situations. I don't think we got her in enough of those tonight. That hurt us.

I would like two see them move the ball a little more quickly. They were able to pressure us more at the end of the game and that is something we are going to have to work on, continuing to move the ball and attack.

I would never call it encouraging because this was a team we could beat. There were good things we could take out of it.

We had a period in the first half where we had four or five situations like that, and that makes us dangerous.

We operated our offense the way we wanted to and we way out-shot them.

We played well I was real pleased. Danielle had an excellent game, a real solid game. Won a lot of balls and got our offense going.

It was very good to see. It was a gritty game. Most of the game we dominated and then at the end Orange really made a push and hung in there tight.

Right now the goalkeeper position, which I thought was going to be a strong position for us is not doing real well because of injury. It's just bad luck, sometimes that happens to a team. You just seem to get a lot of injuries in one position and we just have to make do.

It was a very intelligent goal. Take the shot before they are still trying to organize and she just walked up and smacked it in the net and it was a nicely placed shot.

It's a great start. We've been getting better and had a lot of close games last year. There is nothing like winning games.

The last two years we have been a real young team. Last year we started seven or eight sophomores, but this year the girls are maturing and getting stronger and learning the system a little better.