Rachel Farwell Quotations

It's been a struggle. We've struggled with (the press) all year. I think every team in the league is probably aware that that's one of our problems, but we keep taking strides everyday in practice.

Basically the girls just hung in there and pulled it out in the end. They just weren't ready to give up.

Our leading scorer every game, except when we played Atchison, hasn't been more than a three-point difference. So, what's working in our advantage, is when they all can score we're pretty tough.

Bottom line was they had 16 minutes to continue their season. I think no matter what we put in there, they knew that in the back of their minds that they had 16 minutes to decide whether they wanted to continue on to Thursday or tonight was it.

We're getting real used to playing against bigger people. Perry's the only team we've played so far that we match up with size-wise.

I don't think she had two points in the entire first half (against Bonner). And she had 18 in the second half. We knew she was scoring but we didn't think she had quite that many points.

We talked a little bit about what they were doing defensively and how we needed to look more offensively as far as executing and looking to shoot. I think we had a couple shots there in the beginning and they didn't fall for us so we pulled back a little from that. I don't know if it's because we're nervous or what.

Most people by then would have looked and said we're done, we're out. But no, we kept shooting three's and they were falling for us. We were making our way back in it. There just wasn't enough time to get it done.

Missed free throws killed us. (Bonner) put their free throws in when it counted. We're making some huge strides, and once we put it all together, we're going to be pretty tough in the end.

I was a little concerned. I really think we needed this win to remind them that they can compete. They went out strong in the first half.