Our plan was to try to attack the weaknesses of the defense. We knew coming into the game that they had some injuries at corner and we had to test those guys.

We didn’t pitch very well or play defense very well. We swung the bats a bit better but when you don’t pitch well and don’t take care of the baseball, you’re not going to win...

They tried a couple of things on us with their defense and we just made the adjustments. We didn’t do anything spectacular but we played within ourselves and our limitations.

Their defense was tough. I think a couple of times we forced things, just rushed a couple of times. But their defense was good.

Defensively we came out and we were aggressive. They just didn’t knock down shots and credit our defense for that.

He was shredding our defense. He was pulling up, passing, doing it all tonight. He’s a real good player.

The defense lawyer is filing the appeal this morning and I expect the hearing to be set for Sept. 9.

Our defense was just awesome. We were making them take some tough shots and we were cleaning those boards and pushing the ball up the floor to get great shots.

We talked about this kind of game all week, and the biggest factor of our game is our defense.

It’s something we stress all the time. We work on different aspects of defense, especially team defense, where we help each other. The girls know they have to play physical and they need to communicate....

He kept the ball down and let his defense make plays behind him. This was a big win for us.

It’s early in the season and nobody is going to remember who ranked first in defense after four weeks, but to be part of all this and know you’re contributing makes you feel good about...

Early in the half we did a good job of holding them off. We did enough on defense to keep them from scoring.

This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment....

Good pitching, some power, good relief, good defense. And no mistakes.

The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

It’s our way of survival. We have to play tough defense to play with the personnel we have. … I’ve been doing this 17 years, and every year we had post players. To not have...

We’re not playing any defense. They shot 55 percent from the field and score 56 points in the first half. You’re not going to win many games in this league playing like that. We’ve definitely...

We were unable to execute against their defense.

We were much better (tonight) on the interior defense.

We win games with defense.

Both teams came out playing aggressive defense and neither team was hitting. Whitney Scott came out hitting in the second quarter.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

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I think we saw the rust from the last two weeks off early. We pride ourselves on our defense and rebounding. That’s how you stay alive in the postseason.

We really pounded it inside and really took advantage of it. We thought they might come out playing zone (defense), but they played man. That was great. I just told the kids to pound it...

Isaiah had three players on him. He was the focal point of their defense. It was good we had other players step up.

The defense put out a fire, … and then for us to come back with that drive, I really thought we were going to win the game.

I couldn’t be more proud of two guys (Clore and Dahn) and the defense they played.

I couldn’t be happier with our performance. It starts with defense and ours was superb tonight. I thought we were hurt off their dribble penetration, but we made adjustments at halftime and were ready for...

We knew our defense early in the year would have to support the offense a little bit because we had so many new faces on offense and they’ve done that. We have to eliminate mistakes...

We played great defense. We had no errors and we made every play clean and smooth. They got people on base almost every inning, but we shut them down with our defense.

We talked about defense at halftime. When we went man-to-man in the second quarter they really struggled.

I thought the first half defense was very good. I wish we could have scored some points there to get a lead. We missed our first 10 shots to start the game, we had good...

I think with coach here and focusing on [defense], everyone’s going to be protected.

I don’t have to shoot it a lot, I just have to keep the defense honest,

Adam has a good defense in front of him that is playing better and he has been playing better as the season has progressed. I think the experiences he had last year, more or less...

We put more thought in our defense. That led to some easy baskets and that was reflected in the box score.

It was a game where we struggled to find any offensive rhythm. In the second half our defense gave us some things, and we were able to generate a little bit of offense to get...

We took a national perspective, not a regional perspective, … We proposed what was best for the national defense.

Monica is a great athlete. That’s probably why she was first team all-defense in the KVAC.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.

Kris Canto is to our defense what Nick Clemens is to the offense.

We came out with a lot of intensity on defense (in the fourth). We wanted this game bad.

It’s my job to open up the defense. If I’m shooting from outside, things will open up underneath.

We couldn’t have played defense any better. Just one play, other than that Amber Hanson had just an excellent game at shortstop, just an excellent game. I couldn’t ask any more of her. She checked...

Michael, he’s tough. Case plays very good help defense. He tried to drive and couldn’t get anything, they did a real nice job.

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I thought we played pretty good defense tonight. We made some nice plays behind Butts to get him out of some innings. I was real proud of Brett going out there and giving us a...