Dave Cottle Quotes (8 Quotes)

We just needed a win. When you go two weeks without winning, you start to get on each others' nerves a little bit .... We've been knocking on the door with the senior class, and this was a sweet win. It's a win that matters at a place that's hard to win ,

They are the only team I've seen out there that can outscore you and stop you equally well. They've really dominated ground balls. They've owned the middle of the field. They throw the hardest skip pass in lacrosse.

We haven't practiced well since the Duke game, and unfortunately, maybe we needed a loss to recognize that. We didn't handle success as well as we would have liked.

We challenged our seniors to step up. At 5-5, it was their time to show they were really good. We knew we were in for a battle. We're not in midseason form. The only thing we had a flow in was extra-man offense. It's quite the X factor when your goalie robs the other team.

We've felt like we haven't been getting transition goals, so that's a big goal for us. We've been working on that for the last two weeks. That's an area we think we can improve on.

You'd like to say something happened, this remarkable thing in the locker room, but what happened is our seniors stepped up. What turned us around was our players. We didn't make that many adjustments that made a difference. Our kids just played a lot better in the second half.

We thought Towson was in a good spot coming into this game. They were coming off a loss, so we knew we would be in for a battle. At times today, they played better than us.

For us, it's not so much who scores but how we get them. They're almost starting to look better. At times it was a struggle today, but it was one of those games that was going to be kind of difficult. I felt we ran well and played a lot of guys and I was happy.