Melissa Slone Quotations

She's one of the best high school players I've ever seen. She has to do so many other things besides score. She has to be our assists leader and steals leader and rebounds ... she needs to do it all for us to be successful.

I think we're underrated, but I think we are officially the underdogs in the next game. We've played a lot of close games. Our record (15-12) is deceiving. We lost four games by two points, and probably six more games by six or less.

Our kids are pretty excited. They're just playing loose and enjoying themselves.

Our role players have really improved. If we can get points from our other three starters, that just makes it easier for Tamara and Megan.

The pressure's off us now. We played most of the district as underdogs. Today we felt like the favorite, so I think we came in a little more nervous and tight than we would have liked. But we'll be pretty loose Monday. We weren't supposed to be here anyway.

They've been doing it all year for us, and we've seen a lot of defenses from teams trying to stop them. We saw just about everything the last time we played them, and it did slow us down a little bit, so maybe that's why they threw so much at us again tonight.

It was a big win for us. The big thing now is not to look past anyone and keep it going.