Post-match Quotes - Penn State
NCAA Tournament - Des Moines Regional
Wells Fargo Arena (Des Moines, Iowa)
December 11, 2015
Penn State Post-Match Quotes
Opening statement
Coach Russ Rose:
It was a great match this evening. I appreciate the effort our seniors and players that play this year. We had a game plan but it didn’t materialize very well. They had a lot more confidence. We had some people who weren’t in the mind set to get things done. That’s our fault as coaches. I’m not disappointed in losing, we’ve had a season where we were not having this press conference. We have to keep our heads up. If another team beats you, then you give them the credit they deserve. Hawaii played terrific tonight.
Have you ever had a rally that lasted as long as the one in set two? The one that seem to like it never wanted to end?
Kendal Pierce: I think we’ve been trained to know that if you win a rally like that the outcome is different. If you are able to push through like that usually you can take a game. That was our mentality is we just get one point at a time. You never know what could happen. I think we made some great hustle plays on that and connected as a team.
Coach, did Hawaii do anything you didn’t expect tonight?
Coach Rose: It wasn’t that they did anything we didn’t expect. I expect we would be able to defend things a little bit better. They’re very good, but I would hate to make it like we lost because they were better. We didn’t lose because we were thinking about the wrong things. They were very good. I thought both passed about the same, we kind of roped out a little bit. The blocking was similar, we had a little more digs than they did. But they had twelve more kills than we did. They were a little more terminal, their hitters were a little better. I don’t think we were as ready to play as I thought we were going to be. They played great defense, Haleigh took some great swings tonight and they had control of the ball. For us to have 11 hitting errors is an awful lot of hitting errors. We can’t have that many hitting errors and expect to win.
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