Matt Smith Defense Quotations

at 7:30 tonight. ''At halftime, we're going to sit down with the three big offseason acquisitions on defense -- linebackers Monty Beisel and Chad Brown plus cornerback Duane Starks.

We just don't always play the best defense behind him.

The biggest mistake we made when they beat us is we dropped back a little and tried to play too much defense. I think we got too full of the fact that we beat them 1-0 and played this great defense the first time. And we played too defensive.

He's been throwing the ball well all year. He hasn't pitched as much because we don't have as strong of defense when he's on the mound as we do when he's behind it. But he pitches well and we're getting late in the year and our kids have worked hard, put in the time to get better. Now at the end of the season we're playing a lot better than the beginning.

We had to bear down a little bit. Kyle did a good job pitching for us. He made pitches when he had to make them and the defense played well behind him.