Craig Milburn Quotations

We're going to lose a lot when we lose them all. We've been trying to get as much experience for our younger girls as we can. We have a couple of girls that will be ready to step in, but we're certainly taking a step back when we lose them.

Losing is hard. I think he got a little frustrated with it. He put a lot of pressure on himself to produce. He's made some changes here. I feel the program is headed in a good direction.

If we get more people involved that's less money the schools would have to raise. If we do that, we'll be able to give away some decent prizes.

I always tell the pitchers to throw strikes and let the defense do the work. This was a team effort and the defense knows they were a part of this, too.

We're kind of a balanced ball team. Our bottom three kids (in the batting order) have come up with big hits just like the top three.

We should have won one of them. But we lost three in a row and I hope we got our bad ball out of the way.

We don't make too many errors. Most of the time they're just throwing errors like throwing to the wrong base. That's what happens when people run on you. Sometimes errors are caused by throwing the ball too much.

Both teams hung in there. I admire River Ridge. They battled and didn't give up. It was a well-played softball game with a lot of defensive plays on both sides.

We're the type of team (in which) you just can't put it all on one person.

Tonight was the most focused I've ever seen Jessica Davis on the mound.

Defense (is the key). You always say that and next game we could go out and make 10 errors. (But the seniors) have played together pretty much since they were sophomores. They're 43-12 over the last two years.

Your goal is to make the finals so you can advance to the playoffs. Nothing's for sure. It's a tougher district this year than it was last year.

They ran themselves out of the seventh inning.

At first I wanted to know what she was doing swinging at a 3-0 pitch. But, she won the game for us, so it's kind of hard to fuss at her.

It's an honor not only for him but for the school to have a state champion. He's got a lot of potential. I hope he takes advantage of it.

(Davis) threw strikes. Our defense is good and if we get people throwing strikes we're going to get people out.

I know we're going to see good pitching. But I'm just hoping it's not way above what we've been seeing.

If Jessica gets the ball over, she gives us a chance to get them out.

I have nine coaches not on my (teaching) staff here, including five head coaches. It's getting tough to run a program. ... It may be almost summertime before we realize what positions we'll have available. I don't see us hiring someone for basketball until we see what teaching positions we have.

In this game if you can score even two or three runs (early) then you can hit all of it; hit and run and bunt and squeeze and let you step into the box more relaxed.

It has its pluses and minuses. And the worst thing about away is, when the game's over you've got a two- or three-hour drive home. Depending on what you do, it makes that drive short or long.