Shelli Haferbecker Quotations

She was the one who kept us going. I'm proud of her and the rest of this team for what they showed tonight.

From what I have heard, they will be a lot like Marathon. They will get up in your face on defense and have some good shooters, so we'll have to be prepared to play our best.

If it wasn't the first shot, a lot of times it was the second and third shot.

Kate's a lot better shooter than that, and if we all hit a couple more it's a lot different game. Their girl kept hitting her shots, and it's hard to defend two big and athletic post players when you also have someone shooting from the outside.

I think we're all going to be a little nervous at the start of the game. This is a big game for all of these kids, but I think they will respond to that.

I think we came out excited to play and were ready, we just had a little case of nerves. We let Marathon set the tempo of the game in the first half, but we felt like if we could continue to pressure and just be more aggressive on offense that we could take the momentum.

Jessica showed tremendous leadership tonight. Taylor has missed some time, but she has come on and gave us a big spark tonight.

Manawa played a real tough game. But we stayed strong and came out strong in the fourth quarter and never looked back.

We shoot about 50 percent as a team, and this is the second time this season we shot 28 percent against this tem. We dug ourselves into a hole, but I thought Kate played a great game and did all the little things for us.

We knew that we just needed to execute a little better, and things would start to happen for us. Things got tight for us at the end, but we made the big play when we needed it.

Defense won the game for us. We had an incredible amount of intensity on defense against a good team. This was a huge win for us.

This is such an incredible experience for these girls because now they get a taste. Hopefully, this will make them want to work that much harder to get back down here.

At halftime, I just told the girls that they needed to believe. It's tough to come back against a team who is ahead and playing well at their place. Our backs were against the wall, but we kept on pushing.

It's been very hectic. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. I probably had my phone ring 20 times today, and on the last one I just didn't answer it.

I know what to expect this time around. It's a great experience the first time you get down there, and it helps when you are preparing kids who have never been there before.

It ended up coming down to execution. When we got steals we we were able to execute and turn it into points. When they got steals, we just put the pressure back on them.

Claire really sparked us off the bench. The freshman showed a lot of determination and strength in there and played a well-rounded game. I don't know if we missed a shot is the fourth quarter.

I could see in the players' eyes they were ready to go and focused for this game. I expected this to be a close game. We haven't gone up against a team that mirrored us as much as Stratford.