Jim Bragg Playing Quotations

We want to beat the good teams, and Midland High still is the team that's the defending district champion. We know these other teams and they know us. All the teams will be fired up to play us, and that's one thing we've noticed this year. Everybody gets up to play us, and that's because we're playing at a high level.

Last year, playing (games) like this, it was what I called a feeding frenzy. Everybody pushed up, there was no shape and we just tried to bang away. This time, we were still working on stuff, pulling the ball back around and trying to create space. I think that shows some maturity and that's what we tried to do.

When you've got a team, and we're pretty close as a team, and you lose a family member, it affects you, and that's what we had. It affects everybody, so I was pleased with (the win) because we did not play the way we're capable of playing and the girls know it. But it was emotional.

We're having fun and it looks like we're picking it up. We've got the confidence to score and we've got a strong defense and everybody needs to be playing their best game. This is the first step in getting to the regional tournament and winning it.

I think we're looking forward to going up there and playing Marcus again. We know they're the defending state champion, but somebody's got to beat them. I think we'd like to be that somebody.

We're into the next round and we're playing again, and that's what we wanted to do. We're not disappointed at all, but we can play better and it's good to know this wasn't our best game. We want our best game to be down the road.

This is the maturity she has and that's why she's going to be playing in college. She realizes for the team to be successful, she had to do something she might not want to do. That's a team player and that's why teams with her on them will be successful.

We talked about playing good passes to the feet and keeping the ball out of the air. Truthfully, that's the way we play best, when we just one-touch the ball around the everybody's moving into spots. That was fun.

Fowler's done a great job. And when we play these games, as a freshman, she's standing up to some of the best offensive players in the state, players who are going to be playing in college. She's a dominant player, and she will continue to get better.