Our goal is to win the weekend. If we can do that, we put ourselves in position to make some noise. |
Our returning players have taken a trip like this every year and we expect them to help lead the younger players through the road fatigue. |
She usually will throw a strike in the first couple of pitches; our youth played a factor in this one. |
She's their go-to player. Our game plan was to not let her hurt us, and we did a really good job of that. |
Some of it was depth. We had some injuries to key people. I think we have a little more balance this year and more team speed. Last year, we were more one dimensional. |
The more options we have the better we are. It makes it harder for our opponents to prepare for us. If someone has a bad day we have options. |
Traditionally, Ohio has always been a good offensive team. They have a new coach this year, so I'm not sure as to what their philosophy is, or if it's changed. |
We both absolutely love animals... and we always wanted to do something that involved animals. So one day last year, we started talking about it. It then went from talking about it to actually looking for a space and, once we found a space, it took about one month to get the doors open. |
We didn't get big hits when we needed and they did. |
We didn't take care of some opportunities to advance runners, and that's the biggest difference between us and them. |
We had ample opportunities to score. We need to have better at-bats with runners on base. |
We have a really close-knit group this year who play hard for the program and each other. It's hard to put my finger on our strengths right now, but we need to get a handle on what we have confidence in and what we need to work on. |
We just need to keep doing what we've been doing on Tuesday [for success]. We were aggressive at the plate, on defense and pitched well. |
We played very tough against a very good team. We played against their best pitcher and their starting lineup. |
We played well and got progressively better all three days. Those first two games we just didn't get the hits when we had people on base. |