Lois Heeren Quotations

She's just a very tough player. She'll probably be player of the year (in the WIAC). She's going to get her points.

I was pleased with our defense in the second half. We held Stout 20 points below their season average. We were right there with them. Unfortunately, we couldn't get our shots to go in.

I don't know what to tell you. I never could have envisioned something like this. I thought we would come out like gangbusters. We talked about being the aggressors, and I don't know if we had an aggressive spurt in us tonight.

Overall it was a pretty streaky game. If we play as well for 40 minutes as we did the last 2? minutes of the first half, we're going to be a tough team to beat the second half of the season.

We have a great future ahead of us. We'll get to that next level next year and get to that championship game.

We've never played at home before (in the WIAC tournament), except in 1999 when we played in a play-in game. We play well at home. Any time you play at home, it's just a huge advantage on your side.

We've really tried to focus over the past two days on the little things we needed to do. We just played with confidence tonight and dominated on both ends of the floor.

We talked about having one person step up for us, and tonight we had five. Whoever came in for us tonight really did a nice job for us.

It was a great test for us and we came through. It wasn't our night but we just found a way to win. We kept plugging and the shots fell and we believed in what we were doing.

It was a great way to end our trip out to California. We were able to get everyone in ... we learned a lot about each other and we are ready for the second half of our season to begin.

I'm not one to take short cuts. I'm not afraid of hard work because I'm used to it. I think that hard work has paid off to help us get to where we are.

I challenged our starters to set the tempo early. I thought our starters one through five stepped up and played well tonight.