Allie is a great take-on artist. She is extremely crafty with the ball, although we’re looking for her to be more aggressive and look to shoot more. Kim has been the most improved player in...

In our defense we want everyone to help each other out. We have some experience back there. It’s just a matter of how long it takes for that group to get comfortable together.

Scoring first was big because we’ve struggled with that against good teams. But you’ve always got to be cautious with Rapids. They’ve got some speed and you can never count them out.

We had smart decision-making in the first half and played pretty soccer. We came out with confidence.

When we get the ball to the flank and we can get behind defenses, then it’s good. They had some quick players and some very physical ones, but I guess we just finished.

It’s something we’ve gone up and down with so it was nice to see we could finish in the first half.

We needed to capitalize on our chances and we didn’t finish. They finished their chances and that was the difference in the game. I guess that’s what the game is all about.

No one person is to blame for something like that. We gave up as corner kick and we were not able to clear the ball. That kind of misfortune can take the fire out of...

Most of the play goes through them as we try to get numbers up. Our whole offense is based on them. They have to be creators and go running back in transition.

I thought our team did a good job of coming back after losing in the morning. The coaches told the team we were the little fish in the big sea.

I thought she (Bauer) did a real good job. She made some saves where she tipped the ball to herself. To their credit, I thought they were much improved as a team.