She's a gutsy kind of performer. I really like her style. She does a lot of things, and if she's not swinging very well, she can drop down a bunt. |
She's probably not finished yet. She's in a good little groove there. |
Stacey Nelson and Stacey Stevens have separated themselves from the pack and are getting the ball more consistently now. But I still think we're going to go with the one-two-three punch [with Nelson, Stevens and Littlejohn] and go that way through the whole [Southeastern Conference] season and regular season. |
There are no easy games. We've got a tough game at their place. We have got to improve everything every day. There's nothing special about playing them. They bring a high level of intensity and we have to do the same. |
They (Nelson and Littlejohn) came in playing a game. That helped Stacey stop analyzing every pitch and just throw. She's just living in the moment. |
This team is starting to believe in themselves a little bit. |
We don't pay attention to anything like that. All we're looking to do is to improve every single day and that's all I can ask for as a coach. |
We knew if we were going to have a chance against Michigan we were going to have to get some clutch hits. We showed a lot of patience at the plate in the seventh inning and Lindsey Cameron came through with that clutch hit. |
We played good defense, and that's the name of the game. You have to do a good job limiting opponents to just three outs and fight through adversity, and we did that tonight. |
We were struggling. It was easy to see that their pitcher was doing a great job. It looked like we were guessing a little bit. She was throwing strikes, and we're looking for balls. She's throwing balls, and we're looking for strikes. |
We won't know the true ramifications of a quality schedule like this until the end of the year when it comes selection time. That's what our goal is. We don't care about wins and losses. |
[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. |