Craig Nicholson Quotations

When you swing the bats like that, you're going to be pretty tough to beat. It was a good day. The hitters did a good job. It wasn't like their pitchers were slopping it up there.

We're hoping for the best, but there's not much you can do about it either way.

When you can score early, it takes away the pressure. We just went up there and got good pitches to hit and put good swings on them.

Obviously any property we lose, we lose revenue.

If we hold teams to one run, I've got to like our chances. Our pitchers were outstanding. They were around the (strike) zone all day long.

Groff kept making good pitches to get out of jams, and we made some good defensive plays to help her out. She's the kind of a pitcher who can get herself out of a jam with one pitch because she gets so many ground balls, and we're going to turn two when you hit one at somebody.

Our hitters are getting to the point where they're pretty locked in. Hopefully, we're going to see some big things down the stretch from our offense.

We just ask that this is not delayed a long time.

We played pretty well against some good competition. I'm satisfied with our performance.

We did some good things, particularly offensively. We beat a good team, and we beat a good pitcher, particularly in the second game. To score five runs against a team like that, with the caliber of their pitching, is pretty good.

We didn't put any extra pressure on ourselves because we were coming off a loss, but it's nice to play well and get that taste out of your mouth as soon as you can.

We didn't play with any energy the first game, and one bad inning killed us.

We didn't do a good job of making adjustments at the plate.

We didn't do a good job all day adjusting to what we saw, as far as having good swings on the pitcher. We were swinging at bad pitches and taking good pitches.

Defensively, we're solid. As long as our pitchers throw strikes and keep the ball in the yard, we're going to make a lot of plays.

It's not like we got outplayed. We just didn't take advantage when we had opportunities. We had some terrible at-bats in key spots.

There's very little that separates the three teams that are going to be playing in the regional. Very little. If we play the way we did in (Tuesday's) first game, we'll give ourselves an opportunity to win. But if we don't take advantage of our opportunities or have one game where we don't play well, we're going to get beat. It's that simple.

I don't why we struggled offensively. Maybe we were a little rusty. We hadn't played in five days, and at this point in the year, we're not used to not playing for five days.

The first game, (Phoenix) had all the chances and didn't take advantage, and we got the clutch hits. It's good to play tight games, and obviously it's better to win them, but it's tough to beat a quality team when you give up that many chances.