A strong defensive effort by the East team in the second half helped keep the game close.

I thought our defensive effort was the key to the game.

On the plus side, Rutgers turned in a strong defensive effort.

The troubles started on, of all things, an outstanding defensive effort.

Now Scott hopes to get a good defensive effort from the other players on his team.

But last night, the Rangers turned in one of their best defensive efforts.

Every once a while, the beauty of a defensive effort cannot be denied.

It wasn't our best defensive effort, but we got the job done.

"It's the best defensive effort we've had in my career here."

I don't think there was any team we couldn't have beaten with this kind of defensive effort.