Coach Powell came to help me in 1998 when he retired from teaching. He has been a great help to me ever since, and this baseball program as well as this community are very blessed to have him here to help guide these young men when they are in high school. |
Curtis Young is one of those guys who can literally play every position on the field. We are going to put him where we need him most. |
Even now, Coach Powell will sit me down about how I should handle situations. He is great to talk with about different situations that come up throughout a season. |
Except for two innings, we left at least one runner in scoring position. When you come up here to play this bunch in this ball park, you have to take advantage of those opportunities, because they will make you pay for it if you don't. |
I, as well as this community and school system, are very blessed to have the staff that we have on this team that care and work hard to teach this game. Our problems may be because of me as the head coach, but it is certainly not because of my assistants. |
It's something we haven't done in a while. And all the guys and the coaching staff are hungry for it, and that is our main goal this season. |
There will be competition at all positions. No starters are set in stone. |
This is the first year in a while we go into the season without a definite centerfielder whom we knew could contribute immediately. We are looking for someone to step up and prove they can be the one to play that position. |
We are a team that is still trying to find its identity. We are trying to find the right people to put in the right places with the right combination of people that will help us the most, but we are starting to figure that out I believe. |
We are confident in the ability of all these guys, and we think they will give us some good innings throughout the season. |
We have Russell County here for Senior Night Tuesday, and we'll hopefully hit and play defense the way we did today. We've got games against good teams after that as we're trying to get ready for the playoffs, so we'll hopefully have some guys step up and fill the holes that have been left because of injuries. |
We have Valley at home Tuesday, and we need to get better before they come here. We still control our own destiny in the area, and we'll need to keep it that way next week. |
We just did not play the way a varsity baseball program needs to. No one was into the game, and it was a total team effort because everyone was out there almost like they were sleeping. |
We matched with them zero for zero in 10 out of 12 innings tonight. But unfortunately they count those other two innings also, so we went from a 10-game win streak to a two game losing streak. |
We played better in the afternoon game. We scored all six in the first two innings, and we didn't have many base-runners after that so we will work on that. |