Jan. 12, 2008

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Dayton Head Coach Jim Jabir

We are a good team we proved that today that we are a good team. A lot of people helped us prove that, Karah Cloxton she pretty much ran the tempo, and looked for the weaknesses in their defenses. Everyone played a good game.

I agree, they were big and physical, they were pushing her around (Nikki Oakland) it affected her a little bit.

We had 10 days off and we played St. Francis who isn't as physical so it took us a while to get back. We made adjustments.

We had a lot of composure. At the beginning of the game we had a problem with their intensity and got back a little and took a punch. We recovered and punched back and picked up their intensity. We adjusted a little bit on defense. We handled their scorers on the perimeter pretty well when we went man, which was the majority of the time.

Our crowd today was a big key to our success. I hope to see them come back to support us throughout the rest of the season because the product on the floor is exciting to watch. This community loves to support a winner and we hope to continue to give them that throughout the season.

Karah Cloxton

Temple always gives us trouble and it was fun to prepare for them this year and play really well against them and have it all together.

We really believed that we could beat them, we really got into Coach Jabir's plan and came out and played together as a team.

I had a lot of help today. They were guarding Kiki (Lund) and Kristin (Daugherty) a lot which left me open so I was able to knock some down.

It was really important for us to go inside rather than outside so we kept running our offense and got some good looks.