Nov. 2, 2008
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UIC Head Coach John Trask
On Chicago soccer:
"A great Chicago soccer game here tonight. There's more than one excellent soccer program in Chicago, and Loyola is one of them, Northwestern is one of them, DePaul is a good team. It's a great time to be involved in Chicago soccer. Look at what the [Chicago] Fire is doing as a pro team, and you look what our college programs are doing."
On Loyola:
"We expected them to play exactly the way they did. They were never going to give up. They're too good of a program to quit. They've got an inner fight to them that we have as well."
On the match:
"At the end of the day we scored two goals and they scored one, and that's the deal. It's a hard thing to do, to get the ball in the back of the net. We did it twice, they did it once."
On his team winning the Horizon League regular season championship:
"When we went to the [NCAA Tournament} Round of 32 in our second year here, we figured that most teams wouldn't look past us, at least not coaching staffs, yet we still felt that a lot of teams still looked past us. We knew coming in as an Elite Eight team from last year that the targets on these kids' backs were going to be so big, and though we didn't go undefeated, we were the Horizon League regular season champions. Compliments to Butler and compliments to Cleveland State, but UIC is the best team in the conference over the conference season and those guys deserve to be champions today. They did it."
On his team's calm demeanor after clinching the title:
"I am happy that this isn't enough for them. They want more. That's what you're always striving for. We want to be a program that handles something like this result tonight in stride. Now we get back and start working and we get better and we get ready for the conference tournament and hopefully a selection in the NCAA Tournament."
On Kevin Stoll and UIC's forwards:
"Stoll's a great player. The work that Kevin puts in, along with Matt Spiess and Phillip Mitchell, we have a good core of frontrunners, and we're still very stingy defensively."
On Ian Sarachan's play:
"I thought Ian Sarachan had a great game tonight. I thought he played very, very well within the framework of the team because if we don't shut down Keum Sung [Kim], and that job is down to Alen Husidic and Ian Sarachan and what they did on the right side of the field, it would have been a long night because Kim is a very special player in this league, and we all know that."
On Pat McMahon's play:
"A great night for him here on Senior Night. Getting that goal and then clearing that ball before it goes past the goal line. A great job by Patrick."
