Brian Doyon Quotations

She had a big night. You can always credit hitters for hitting well, but if they aren't getting a good ball, it doesn't matter how good a hitter is.

One of our goals was serving. All the girls did a very good job. I don't think we started missing serves until that last game. They all did real well. All I asked for them was to challenge each pass and I think they did a good job, each one of them.

I think more it's a test of where we are in our own system. That's how we have to look at it. We're playing our system. When we were down a little bit here or there, 'Were we able to hold things together? Were we able to stay in the system?' And the girls did a fantastic job.

That was the key going into it that they're great middles. We just had to manage them. Yeah, they're going to have great kills and people are going to go crazy. But we have to know that we've got to continue to play solid defense.

We did this last year, though. We beat these girls here last year, so we've got to do it again at their house. But it's great. It was a good match. Glenwood is really strong. Their middles, my God. Our girls kept their composure and played great defense. We kept in our system and did our best to keep them out of their system.

This will be our first test of the second half of the season, so it will be a big game. We'll have to be a little bit more focused than we were tonight. We're also going to have to expect a little more pressure. I expect them to pass batter. I'm sure their attack is going to be coming hard.

We were picking up their hitters early and closing in on the block.

As I discussed with the girls, we're doing very well in the league and I'm very happy that we're doing well. But what I need to see now is just steady progress toward the end of the year. Our goal is not these games now, to win them and not do well at the end of the year. It's to continue to do better everyday and get better and better.

Eagle Valley passed really well and started digging well. On some attacks they didn't put a block, and their back row was digging up the ball. The work Rob (Crawford) has done with them on defense has really paid off.

Each week, we get the girls to concentrate on one element. All of our prep work is for the end of the season.

As we get further down the road, it's going to be more important to get our players as well rounded as possible, continue to get them court time. I want to put them in difficult situations, so that they know they can handle it. They handle it very well. We've got great production from everybody.

It's good. Eagle's playing well, though. I was surprised with how they come on their block. They did a good job there. The girls managed to deal with crowd and play their game. So, it was good.

No matter what the error was or the problem was, it didn't phase us. We continued to roll and play our game. It didn't matter. We just stayed focused and played.

If our attack got blocked, we picked the ball back up, and made the defensive transition.

I don't put any weight in preseason rankings. It's more of jinx. The nerves were up there. I was nervous. They were nervous. But they came out and played very well. I was very happy with how poised they were, how confident they were and relaxed they were.

I cleared out the bench. We were working on serving and defense, and both did real well.

The key to the game was that we had to serve them strong to keep them out of their system, not to give them an easy ball. We had quite a few errors, but you've got to take that risk.