He was doing a good job. We never really hit it real good all day.
This early in the year we're going to hold our pitchers down to 60 or 65 pitches. You get behind the good hitters and they'll make you pay. That's what happened a couple of times in the late innings.
I was trying to decide whether or not to walk them so we could get a force. I felt like we could pitch to the bottom of the order. Luckily, we were able to do it. He did a good job working out of some jams.
Union County is a physical team. They put a lot of pressure on our guards. They're a scary team. They pushed us around a little bit last time, so we need to get off to a good start. That's going to be key.
We don't have a choice. If we play them really good early, we've got a good shot. If we lose, we have nothing to be unhappy about, as long as the kids play hard.
I felt like we played good defense out there. We just have to take this and make us better. I thought this would be a good test for us and it was.
But we got a lot of good shots underneath the basket.
Danny had a good fourth quarter. He finished some fast-break points on the other end. He was out in front and got some deflections.
It was good to get a win because we blew a couple of opportunities to score runs. Early in the game, we threw the ball around a little bit on a few plays. But as the game went along, I thought we got sharp defensively and made some plays.