Jason Shirey Good Quotations

She is valuable to us, because she can swing the bat, play third and pitch. It gave us a chance to work her in. Morgan threw a good ballgame.

As a coach, you always like the idea of controlling your own destiny. That's been our motto all year, just to go out and win our games and not worry about what other teams are doing. If we continue to win the games that we play, only good things will happen for us in the long run.

The kids expect to make plays. It's a lot of concentration. We spend a lot of time working on fundamentals and they do a good job of that.

The good thing is that we can move a lot of our kids around and still be all right. Our girls really adapt well to different positions and that's certainly a strength. We're going to play with that for a while and hopefully we'll find a lineup that will give us a good chance in the long run.

It was nice to get started on the right foot. It's good to score runs early against a good ball club. ...The kids hit the ball well early. It was just a great start.

The game sometimes comes down to one play or one hit. For us, it's a good win.

We've got experience coming back, we've got some solid players and I'm really looking for this team to do some good things this season. I really think we have the ability to get back where we were last year, but it's still a waiting game. We'll have to see how everything works out, and that takes a little time.

Her pitches were hitting the spots that she needed. With this 30 mile-an-hour wind, it's tough but we played good defense behind her.

Every chance we get we want to take advantage of it. It was a good league win.

We gave up one hit. One hit and you get beat like that. That was frustrating. We played good defense and had good pitching. We just didn't compete offensively.

She has shown the maturity to handle everything that has been thrown at her. She has been a vital part of the team. There has been a lot put on her plate and she has handled it. You can't help but feel good about a kid like that.

Leah threw well tonight. She only threw 73 pitches, so that was a good bullpen.

Leah is good at changing her speeds up and really fooling a batter. Morgan will play infield and back Leah up, so that's always helpful. But Leah, I mean she really has the ability to put the ball anywhere and give our defense something to work with.