Sally Brown Quotations

It's been a rough season for them. We are young and inexperienced, but hopefully we have learned a few things along the way and will be able to use this as we begin to build for next year.

It?s a lot of fun for everyone who plays and everyone who comes to watch. People really get into it. Last year?s Town Hall team dressed in St. Patrick?s Day garb, while the year before they brought us out of the winter blues with a Hawaiian dress theme, complete with leis. You forget the fact that it?s a fund-raiser.

Our women's team had a good win. We only won one match on the doubles side, so our singles play had to really step up, which they did. We took wins in the Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 spots to claim the win, all straight set wins. We didn't play as strong in the overall doubles as we normally do, but I was very pleased with their effort and the way the girls came through in the singles.

Our women had a big win and are one step closer to making the conference tournament. I am really proud of these girls. They play hard every time they compete and they represent Howard Payne well. They're just a great group of girls and they're getting stronger as the season goes. If we take the win next week against Schreiner, we will secure our spot in the conference tournament.

He starts out very quiet. He squints, and you think he can't see, but he's observing.

Our men played well, we just couldn't get things going our way. They battled hard, but came up short. Andy had a good win, but we were flat in our doubles and hopefully when we get the chance to play them again we will perform much better.

We now have our backs against the wall and we will need both of the remaining conference matches to get into the conference tournament.

We're building character. We had two of our men go to a third set tie-breaker and I was proud of the way they played. We are a young team making young mistakes, but we're building on each match and hoping to learn from our mistakes.

Every match from here on out will be tough and we will need to be ready to play. It will be interesting to see how we respond in these next few weeks.

A lot of older people live here. Everyone knows everyone.