Central Oklahoma

Guy Hardaker, Head Coach
On the game itself
“Very pleased with the way we played tonight. If we out rebounded our opponent we generally win and tonight we were able to do it.”

On the trip to LSC Tournament
“It’s a great experience for our girls. We’ve been blessed enough to get here each time. I wish every team in the conference could experience it. The banquet is incredible. The atmosphere is like a state-tournament type which all of the girls have been part of in Oklahoma. This is a tournament that we look forward to, and I could tell how excited our team was in practice.”

On the game itself
“We felt like every game today was going to be close. I know how well coached Angelo is as a team. Sally does a great job of coaching them. Today, we kind of went into wanting to keep it very simple and attack them from the get to go. I didn’t expect it to end up the way it ended. Angelo was a bit short-handed and that probably added to our victory.

About the UCO program
Every year we’ve got to keep working because everyone else is. It’s not easy to get all the girls you want. There are a lot of opportunities out there for players today. We expect to work hard and I feel like our team is going to win every time out.

Alex Richardson, UCO player

On the game
“My teammates do a really good job of looking for each other inside. We were able to spread the ball across the floor

“We take pride in our efforts. Each of us tried to contain our individual man and looked for chances to help. Our team is more like a family. We like and love each other so much that we are able to read each other’s minds.”

On the game
“I just wanted to do whatever I could do for the team. All of us got into a little fouling spat. As far as the second half, hopefully we wanted to play as a team. Everyone did a good job of finding an open opportunity.

ASU is a dribble drive team. Coach needed to emphasize that we had to be able to defend by ourselves. We needed not to rely on help as much. For the most part, we were able to contain our own man and help out.”

Angelo State

Head Coach Sally Brooks
“We’re disappointed in the way we played today, but other than that there is nothing disappointing about this year. We went into it with “No Excuses” as our motto and along the way we lost four players with ACL injuries and ended up playing the last part of the season with only seven players.  We played great the last two weeks of the season and I couldn’t be any more proud of them. I’ve been coaching a long time but I don’t know if I’ve ever been more proud of seven players on the same team than I am with these seven.

“Where did things go wrong today?”
We didn’t play very good defense. We played good defense all year long and defense is what has kept us in the game. We shot the ball this poorly a bunch all year; it’s always been a struggle. From the beginning to the end, we didn’t play good defense.

Paige Weishuhn

Effort to get the team here:
It was definitely a challenge but with the group of girls that we have, but we’re all hard workers. Every time we step out on the floor, we go as hard as we can for as long as we can. We have to stay mentally strong and just forget about being tired and play.

Camille Perkins

“What will you take away from this tournament?”

It was kind of frustrating (last year), not returning to the conference tournament. I just knew my last year I wanted to go back. We made it a goal this summer and we worked extremely hard. I couldn’t have asked for a better group to end my senior year with, especially those six. I know they are going to carry on the Belle legacy.

(Tearing up) I don’t have any regrets because every time I stepped on the floor, in practice or in a game, I gave it 110% because I knew this day would come. I just thank my parents and Coach Brooks for always pushing me. I couldn’t be happier to have ended my career at Angelo State.