Marissa Chovanec Quotations

The four runs made it easy for Kelly the rest of the way. Kelly had her good stuff today. She struck out 11 earlier this year, but I believe this was her best performance overall.

We hit the ball well, but scattered them around too much. We never could bunch them together enough. Kelly pitched very well.

It was nice to see some sun. I have no doubts that better weather will be just the tonic for this offense. We moved the ball well and our execution overall was good. Better weather makes everyone looser.

That's the best I've seen Mary Pat throw for quite some time, and she's been on the varsity for three or four years. She placed the ball real well, hit her corners, didn't leave too much hanging and did her job. She shut our hitters down, and I think we have some good hitters, so ...

We did a good job of putting the ball in play. We showed pretty good patience at times, though we stranded a few runners.

We had passed balls and wild pitches and that was another momentum shift. In that sense, we helped them move into scoring position.

Kim threw strikes and she had good movement. When you get ahead of people, it makes it easy. Offensively, we helped Kim feel comfortable.

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

I think anytime you play at that level, it's going to carry over. Along with Angela and Kelly, you know, we have eight seniors who have experienced that and nine kids who haven't. They will be able to share that experience and help them realize what it will take to get back to that point.

Yeah, and I will continue to watch them play on TV. Their abilities and their leadership will be missed, and it's not that you can say they will be replaceable, because they won't be. Sam was that way, and Angela is like that candle. They light it for the younger players to learn from for years to come.