Quotes by Ed McComiskey

“We started off the season slow. We were kind of in a rut for a while. I told the players we needed to come out of the winter break with a winning record. Weve turned the corner and were on the plus side going into the second half of the season, which is positive.”

“Its a good way to measure how were doing. They were dominating everybody they played.”

“I figured the game to come down to one play or to the end like it did. I just wish it had been the other way around.”

“Theyre my free-kick specialists. Theyre experienced players. They know what theyre doing.”

“Without Mike out there, everyone was staying back too much. We lost control of the midfield and couldnt get the ball to our offensive players.”

“This just wasnt our night. We just didnt show up for this game and it happens sometimes.”

“He was in agony the whole time. I wasnt even aware of it, he just told me. I knew he had back problems but I had no idea how painful it was.”

“In the second half, they scored five goals against us and the wind was against them.”

“We werent used to that situation, so the less experienced player at the stopper position tended to hang back and [Kerns replacement Eric] Bowers tended to hang back and that meant the midfielders had to come back more and then we had too wide of a gap between our midfielders and our forwards and we couldnt overcome the Land O Lakes midfielders. So we played good defense. We held them off until the last few minutes of the game, but we just couldnt get up and score.”

“McNallys save was the key and probably the turning point of the game.”