Steve Kellar Quotations

We're gearing toward the playoffs. We're getting stronger.

We're giving her a lot of different defensive looks. All the attention is going to be directed toward her. She may get up as many shots as she has in the past, but they'll be very difficult looks.

She's a veteran leader, one of our captains and she's just got a solid all-around game. It's nice having an extra player that can step up.

If we get some quality officials, we can take Waldorf.

Her senior leadership down the stretch was really the key for us in overtime.

This was a good game for us in that everybody played and everybody scored. It was a good, solid effort on everybody's part.

I think it was a physical let down. We had a strong inside presence, but our guards were all sick.

That was a good, tough win against a Division III team in the Bay Area.

Wilton played a very good game they're going to be very good down the road. But we've got a lot of work to do.

Wilton is a good team. They took Waldorf down to the wire before losing by five last week.

We played really well. We were right down there at the end ... the girls played maybe as hard or as tough as they played all year. We could have won that game.

This really is special for our four seniors. Their goal all along has been to go back there for a fourth time and here they are.

We'll have to have better effort than we had tonight. I know we will.

You have to give Jake credit. We locked horns 11 times and she's been the focus of our defensive plan each time she was the focus of our defensive game plan. Today, we ran an inverted diamond-and-two and it worked pretty well. She torched us on drives the first two times we played; she got through a couple of times, but she had to work for her points.

We were on the road four hours to get there, so it was really a satisfying win. The whole team played solid. They have great height - they go 6-3, 6-0, 6-0, but great height can be negated by speed, and we have good speed.

We had pretty good balance there, but it was a flat game.

Bethany did a good job in a backup role. She played well in the post, scored some points and had some rebounds.

It was a phenomenal game. It was a packed gym and everyone was buzzing after the game. The girls stepped up big time.

This is a tough loss for us. We played hard enough to win, if we had executed down the stretch. It's about mental lapses, and we had some mental lapses at crucial times.

All our posts kind of realize that our first options are our guards. I would like it to be an inside-out game, but invariably we tend to be more outside-in. Mackenzie does a good job of hitting the boards and getting some points inside for us.

It was a solid defensive effort against a real storied program from the Bay Area.

It's going to take people playing like a team to win, not by themselves.

It was a good way to get the week started. We've got five games in seven days this week, so getting off to a good start like this is big.

It was just an all-around excellent game. This was the first time our real team has come to play. I think we're getting to where we need to be.

I felt we went into overtime, the momentum was on our side and the fouls were on our side, especially the fouls.

Collectively, I think the girls felt like they had something taken from them tonight.

The key was really the play of Jessica (Clough) and Katie (Fletcher) out at the top. They both defended the ball very well.