Quotes by Mike Devaney

“Obviously two terrific rivals and a terrific early season game of football. I was pleased with the performance of the kids. Not terribly pleased with the result because I thought we did enough to win it I think we?re just going to get better from here.”

“The way that I wanted them to respond was Hey, lets go on and do something maybe that nobodys ever done before and do something a little bit special, and they have a chance to do that. Obviously returning so many players who have the experience of going deep into the state tournament, the expectation is for us that yeah, we want to get back there and wed like to get back to that championship game.”

“A dream start really. You score five goals and you shut out a good team. Certainly a lot to be pleased about.”

“Alex is a terrific athlete, and he combines that with technical ability. Hes a real handful for opposing defenses and proved that tonight.”

“I thought defensively, at times, we got exposed. Far from perfect, and weve still got a long way to go to be playing perfect soccer.”

“We werent real sharp in front of goal.”

“If we werent creating plenty of opportunities I would be worried.”

“It was super important. This game (conference opener) last year was the catalyst for us and it is especially important to win your home games.”

“We got off to a dream start. We bang in three goals in the first 10 minutes or whatever it was and that really settled us down.”

“A couple of them were really terrific finishes. … I thought hes been playing well lately and this certainly is a real boost to his confidence, sticking a few in the back of the net.”