Dec. 2, 2007

Recap

Head Coach John Loughran
On the game:
"I thought we had plenty of opportunities to get ahead early in the game, but their defense kept us off-balance and we didn't execute. Our shooting was pretty poor in the first half and I thought we could have been up a couple of goals going into halftime. I was frustrated that we were not executing our power plays and having some bad turnovers at two meters and not finishing some plays. Fundamentally we just didn't do a good job."

On next year's prospects:
"We have three seniors leaving us, but we have some young players and Andy Stevens I feel was the best goalie in this tournament. We return a good core class of juniors, and Tibor [Forai] has one year of American water polo under his belt, which is a completely different style than he's used to. I think we're going to position ourselves to really make improvements on the weaknesses that we had this year, which were consistency and making adjustments. We're a two-meter player and maybe another shooter away. This group is committed to working hard and I think we can put ourselves in a position to be at this tournament again and really make a legitimate challenge for the title."