Chris Johnson Job Quotations

Laura's a good athlete who's going to compete for a starting job in the back from Day One. She's a tough kid who is capable of making a big impact on our defense.

Jessie took away three breakaway attempts, which kept us in the game. She did a fantastic job for us in goal.

We knew it was going to be a great game. We got them at our place; they got us at theirs -- that's even up. That makes the next two pretty important, being I-8 conference games. We knew what we needed to do to stop them, but we didn't do a good job with what our game plan was.

This was a typical 9 a.m. game, and it looked that way, but we'll take it. I think we thought that Newark was a little weaker than what they were, but they did a great job and stepped up with an undermanned team. We need wins, so we'll take it.

We had talked about being in the game right away. Their (Yorkville) plan was to get up early and try to maintain it, and they held on. I thought they did a good job hitting shots when they needed to.

They made their free throws down the end. A big key was we didn't do a very good job defensively by letting them in the lane, but we did a good job limiting their 3s which is their main focal point.