[Stevens] did well; the thing that I like about is that she showed her maturity. She got in and out of trouble, but she was able to execute some pitches late in the game and come out with the win. |
[The pitchers] competed well, I think they'd agree with me that we still came up a little bit on the short end on the stick. I was proud of their effort. But in the end, if we only give up one run, we need to win those ballgames. |
[We'll] do the same thing. It doesn't matter who we play; we just got to take care of ourselves and set the tempo with our defense. Find a way to get clutch hits. It's not about how many hits we get but just being timely. |
Almost all of Lacy Howard's hits have all been RBI hits. I think she has more RBIs than hits. That's very clutch for us and I am very pleased to get a lift out of her. |
At the end of the game, it's about our pitching, and if our pitching does well from this point forward, we're going to have a good season. Our two freshmen [Lindsay Littlejohn and Stacey Nelson] have to make some adjustments. If we do that, then we'll finish strong. |
I didn't put her in the leadoff spot to hit a home run. I put her in there to get on base so Cameron and [Kristen] Butler can hit her over. |
I don't know that it's a bad rule or a good rule. It's an administrative rule that I've seen called quite a few times. |
I felt like in order for our team to do what we wanted to do we needed to get a couple games this weekend. |
I think it'll be a good game. They have a chip on their shoulder and I like that because that's what our team needs to have. That's what we're working for when we play them. |
I want to know what our record is when the opponents score first because we seem to be coming back a lot. That's just going to help us down the road to play tight and win close games. |
I was nervous two weeks ago. I was nervous in anticipation for our athletes to get that first game under their belts. |
It doesn't really matter how good they are or how they're struggling or whatever you might say. We've got to figure out a way to get our troops ready to go again and get the confidence back in them. |
It's awesome, and we really have three, but you don't know it yet. When Brooke Johnson gets on base, she's fast. ...When you have speed, you make the defense do things they don't want to do. |
Just trying to shake some of the cobwebs off. |
Lindsey is a tremendous spark for us, and that was one of the reasons I felt comfortable with her in the lead-off slot. It's not in our team's character to go out and take the first pitch. I tell them to come out swinging, so I wasn't surprised when she swung at strike one. She came back and sent the next pitch sailing. |