The defense is great. They’ve been playing together for a long time. All three of them can play any sport and play it well. But they’re well-rounded soccer players. They play to win.

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We just told the girls at halftime that in order to win, we would have to play some defense. We were allowing them too many opportunities in the first half.

They seem to be getting too many odd-man rushes lately, and good defense is going to lead to good offense and we just have to concentrate on that.

Coach (Dungy) does a great job installing his defense and communicating how he wants us to play, … There’s a lot of teaching and emphasis on the little things.

I thought our intensity was excellent. I thought our defense was excellent. We shot the ball. I was pride of our intensity and poise we had in the game.

I feel good about our defense, which is important considering our inexperience at the goaltending position.

We played extremely tough and aggressive. Our defense and rebounding kept us in it. … Every time Louisville made runs at us (our) guys made big plays. Game number one in the Big East, that’s...

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Our team defense was very good today. I’m seeing a lot of improvement in our freshmen, and I like the way we are coming together as a team.

We played pretty good defense and took good care of the ball and got people involved in offense that we wanted to get involved. We got the right shot at the right time. We accomplished...

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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.

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

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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.

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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,