2005 SOW vs. Penn State -- Postgame Quotes
11/3/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Michigan Head Coach Debbie Rademacher
On bouncing back from an early deficit ... "You settle into your game and come to know what to expect. They just had that momentum in the first half and they were running at us. Once they get a head of speed going, they have a lot of speed, and we had a hard time containing it."
On the team's effort ... "Therese (Heaton) had two goals. (Melissa) Dobbyn played well. I thought Skylar (Andrews) had a great second half. Everybody really did their part from the second half on. I thought it was a good team effort."
On the penalty kick with just 24 seconds to play ... "That was a heartbreaker. It could have been a disaster for us if we folded, but we didn't. Our leadership kept the team together and we pulled it out."
U-M Junior Goalkeeper Megan Tuura
On tonight's game ... "We were awesome. We dominated Penn State for a lot of the game. Coming out against the No. 1-ranked team and doing that well is unbelievable. I'm so proud of everyone on my team."
On the second-half defense ... "We played much better. We were a lot more clean and on top of everything. Everyone did awesome."
U-M Junior Defender Brenna Mulholland
On the second-half defense ... "Getting in there and capitalizing on opportunities, our defense held strong. I'm really proud of them. We didn't get a shutout, but that doesn't
matter, we got a win."
On Melissa Dobbyn's goal ... "Okay, that first shot was sick, first of all -- unbelievable. It's crucial. I mean, that sets the tone for the rest of the game, it gets the momentum going.
It was unbelievable."
U-M Senior Forward Therese Heaton
On the goal called back in overtime ... "It was disappointing, but it was just another thing that was trying to stand in our way and we weren't gonna let anything -- no call. You can't dwell on it, you can't change it. And we were just going to do everything we could to deal with everything that was in our control, and the calls, maybe they didn't go the way
we thought they should have, but we didn't let that get in the way of us fighting hard until the end."
On scoring quickly coming out of halftime ... "We knew at halftime we were in the game -- it was 1-1, 2-1. The goals they scored weren't anything special. They were things we could clean up defensively. And we knew, this was it, this was our season, if we lost we were going home, we were done. And the seniors weren't ready for to be done, our teammates weren't ready to be done. We weren't going to hang up the cleats."
