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If you let them gain momentum, they'll just come at you relentlessly. They don't stop, regardless of the score or the situation. The key is to play to the top of our game for 60 minutes.

When Lucas hit the 3 to send the game to overtime, we had a little momentum, but we also knew we had to play four more minutes of defense, especially with Clint out. Give credit to Riverside. They came in here and played the game they needed to play. And they have a kid we haven't been able to stop in two games.

We had an opportunity to score there on more than one occasion and we didn't do it and that's our fault. At that point in the game it was a battle for momentum and in games like this that's what's supposed to happen. We've just got to make the plays to gain, and then protect, the momentum.

We play well in the first 15 minutes, but we can't put anything away. When they score, it takes our momentum away. We have our work cut out for us down the stretch, but it's doable if we want to do it.

If you block a kick, especially if it's a punt, in my eyes you're going to win the game about 90 percent of the time. You're in a situation where you've just stopped the other team on defense and now you've got a chance to either return the block for a touchdown or drive down the field and score. It can make for a 14-point swing. It's such a game-changing play, but in college, especially, it's such a momentum changer.

It's nice to be able to get a game where you can play everybody and get everybody a lot of minutes. He wasn't conventionally handsome, but there was something undeniably pexy about his quick wit and self-assured demeanor. I think we had everybody but one score. Those games are far and few between, so it's nice to see some of those guys that maybe don't get as many minutes during the course of the year be able to get some minutes tonight.

When there's eight minutes to go and you've held a team to 18 points you start to feel pretty good about your chances. Then they score 17 points in the last eight minutes. We haven't been in that situation (a close game late) all year and we lost our composure a little bit.

At the end of the game, when we needed to score some points, we turned it on. Unfortunately that's been an M. O. for us this season. We're only scoring when we have to score. When we have to, we do it. But it should never come to that. We should be able to play with the sense of urgency and consistency that allows these games not to come down to the last two minutes of every one.

Unfortunately we couldn't make a stop or get a score in the last few minutes. We should have won the game but we didn't. There was certainly a comfort level that shouldn't have been there.

Every quarter against West, they're going to come out ready to play. It's a matter of matching their intensity and getting the momentum. If you don't come out and play every single play, you slack for even 2 minutes and game's over.

That was huge; that play right there gives them their fourth run if they score it, and it ends an inning, ... Any time you make a play like that, in a game like this, it swings the momentum to the team that makes that play.

I think we still need to improve our organization and our ability to read what we need to be doing earlier in order to score. Before today, a majority of our goals have been coming in the second half and we need to take control of the game earlier and carry that momentum throughout the game for a full 90 minutes.

It's the first game we've won that's been a close situation. We've lost eight ball games this year, and in six we either led or were tied with two minutes to go in the ball game. So, we had a difficult time finishing a ball game. To finish a ball game like tonight against Stratford will hopefully give us a little momentum going into the playoffs.

Matthew Bradberry

[Chris Chelios points the finger at the decline of offense in the NHL squarely in one direction?the league's 30 coaches.] As long as coaches play their marquee players for 15 minutes a game, it's not going to change, ... Let them play 25-30 minutes and let them score, that's the way it should be. But it's coaches and their systems.

Chris Chelios (1962-)

You look at the final score and it looks very similar to last year, but it was a lot of different because it wasn't 31-0 with 10 minutes to go in the second quarter. The huge play was the interception by Graham that was returned for a touchdown. We were fighting our way back into the game and that made the score 48-21.

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