Todd Wilkinson Quotations

We started off kind of sloppy with some fundamental errors. But I was obviously very pleased with the pitching and, defensively, we played good ground-ball defense. And the outfield stepped up and made a couple of big catches.

He is a strike-thrower. In (the CPL), if you throw enough strikes and let the wooden bat take care of itself, you will be OK. He keeps the ball down and is a very good fielder.

He gave us a chance to win. He threw enough quality pitches and held their offense down enough to give us a chance to get back in it but unfortunately, it wasn't a big offensive day for us and we couldn't get going.

Our pitchers did an excellent job. I am very pleased. We made several adjustments in trying to pitch to their outstanding hitters. We did a good job of that.

I still think it comes down to fundamental baseball. Somebody making enough defensive plays and getting pitching.

He threw the ball down really good in the sixth and seventh innings. Those were his best innings. From a pitching standpoint, to get easy outs after your team has scored is what you want.

I thought, when (Tyler) hit that ball over the fence, it really loosened our team up. I thought we were wanting to win too bad. We couldn't quite free it up when we needed it and I thought when he hit that ball, we freed it up. It started to come to us after that.

That's an incredible week, a great four games for him. He has always been a hard worker in our program. Giving a guy that works that hard an honor like this makes him feel that all the hours he has spent are paying off.

We made about a 48-hour turnaround. We had really played poorly down at Aiken (S.C.) and our kids have got great character. They showed great pride and I thought they made a great rebound here at the end of spring break. When we can come out and sweep a conference series, that's really a testimony to their character.

Yeah, it was pretty exceptional. Since the NCAA era, to my knowledge, there's nothing that approaches that.