Mike Ward
Mike Ward
scoring
She did things for us that will not show up in the scoring column.
huge tonight
She does so much for us and tonight she got some huge rebounds.
kids knew monster stressed sure
She is a monster on the boards. We stressed to our kids to make sure we knew where she was.
ball curve hitters impressed kept
I was impressed with (Ellis). He got the curve ball over, and he kept our hitters off balance.
matter rather retirement timing
The timing is a little unfortunate, but it is a matter of retirement rather anything sinister.
accomplish aim authority capture casualties detainees expect forces instance intelligence necessary occurred operations order provide suffered value whatever
Our aim in all these operations is to capture where possible, in order to use the intelligence value that these detainees may have for us, ... In every instance when our forces go into operations like this, we provide them with the authority to use whatever force is necessary to accomplish their missions. We have to expect that in those circumstances, casualties do occur. We have not suffered any casualties at this point, but casualties have occurred on the other side.
asked decision
This is a decision we made. No one asked us to close.
adjusted hit lead played river third until valley
Once we got the lead River Valley adjusted and played pretty even with us until we hit another spurt in the third quarter.
afford basketball good
That was a big run. They are a very good basketball team. We couldn't afford to give them that kind of run.
hope year
I'm relieved. A year from now I hope we don't have to go through this again.
came people ran seen today
I ran with people today I haven't seen in 20 years. All the old-timers came out.
asked book fire football game love playing school talking year
I read the book and e-mailed the organization, we got to talking and I asked if we could do a fundraiser for them. I then went to the school and started lobbying if we could have the football game with the fire fighters. They said they'd love to do it and here we are a year later, playing the game.
deal hours members patrol problem road schools three
Before this, we had members of our road patrol going to the schools for three hours each day to deal with problem kids. This is a much better solution,
came hard learning played proud team
I am very proud of the team. We could have folded at halftime, but they came out and played hard and battled. We are a young team and we have been learning all year. This was another one of those lessons. We did not give up and I am very proud of that.