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. |
Obviously they were both highly recruited pitchers, so I definitely expect them to do what they're doing. But they still have to improve. They're two freshmen that are making progress to be better. |
Our pitchers threw great. They were getting ahead in the count and forced them to chase their pitches a bit. Their hitters are good and [Stevens and freshman Stacey Nelson] did a good job of keeping them off-balance. |
Our pitching staff still has to improve, and they know that. If they can get over the hump and make quality pitches, and we can cut our strikeouts down, we'll be in every ball game this weekend. |