18 Quotes by Ellen Bridgewater

She's tough. She's good at coming off the line and not much gets past her.

She was getting a little frustrated. I know other teams are going to pay special attention to her. But after we moved her back, we got better results. She had more room to work with and she sees the field better than most from back there.

She's been wanting to play so bad, and she finally got a chance tonight and played well.

We talked about the wind before the game. We told the girls that it would push balls across the net and we had to be ready for that from the far side. Kelsey did a great job in the net dealing with the wind.

Having those days off will help the girls later on. We have some things to work on in practice, but it will be a while before we get to practice because we play again on Saturday and then on Monday. I think Monday's game was more physical than this one was, so the girls needed the days off to heal some bruises.

I think it's a game we can win. I think we played well enough tonight to win, but they just made a few more plays than we did. The girls fought the whole game, they never got down and decided they couldn't do it. They just kept coming and fighting.

I thought we played well. We didn't finish well, and that's why we didn't score more. We didn't finish well until the ball we got into the net, but we got chances, a lot of chances, and that's good to see.

That's a tough one to lose. It was a great game that no one deserved to lose.

We played much better in the second half than we did in the first half. We should have played the first half like we did the second half.