Tom Armstrong Quotations

We didn't want to put them on the line. We knew they were a good free throw shooting team. Their guards are good free throw shooters. We talked that maybe we were fouling the wrong people, but in the heat of the moment, what are you going to do?

We won some close games, and we lost some close games in the first half of the season. Right now we've won 9 of our last 10, and I think the closest win was by nine points. (The sophomores) have improved quite a bit, and our team has improved quite a bit.

She makes a coach look smart. She makes me look smarter than I am.

I was (surprised). You expect a dogfight all the way. We talked about how we had to be the aggressor. We knew Hurley is a very aggressive team. We had to set the tone that we came to play, and we showed that we came to play.

I thought the Ashland girls played hard. They came ready to play.

Mark pitched well. We had him on a pitch count, so when he struggled a little in the fourth, we figured that was enough. Zach pitched well the last two innings.

We got back to some fundamentals. Defense was definitely emphasized in practice on Monday. We played a straight man and doubled the post when (Katie Bushman) got it.

We had good balance. It was a good team effort.

We have to learn that when you get a team on the ropes, you have to put them away. The biggest thing I have to say is that we still had the character to come back from that and regain our composure.

You knew they would (come back). They've got 20 wins. They're an excellent ball club. We talked all day that we needed 32 minutes, and we knew it would take all 32 minutes to win.

We worked a lot on our high-low passes and our post players sealing. That worked well for us.

There are good teams all the way through. It's been like that for awhile.

We missed some easy shots. And we missed free throws at crucial times.

They shoot 16 3s a game, and they have four girls who are 3-point shooters. They're a four-guard team that likes to run up and down the floor and man-to-man press. Their guards are their strength.

They're small, scrappy, and they never give up. They'll play right to the end.

They were a good defensive team. They had a lot of athletes. You could see that.

Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?