I think the biggest thing for us is going to be a strong press defense and creating a lot of opportunities and capitalizing on them. If we can minimize our mistakes, then we can win.

I think [the mini-tournament] will be a good chance for us to not play down to teams and show all the talent that we have.

I think the biggest thing is we need more patience. I think we’ll be able to match up better against [Cal] next weekend now that we know that.

They’re not very good ball handlers and they don’t have very strong two-meter players, so we are going to capitalize on that. If we play like we should play, we should win.

In both games [we won] they had some awesome saves. UC San Diego and Long Beach State had some counterattack opportunities that they didn’t get because of our goalies’ awesome play.