Jason Shirey Quotations

When you've got something special like that, you want to make sure they have every opportunity to get it. I was proud for her to get a perfect game. So many things could go wrong.

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.

We hit the ball well tonight, not just at the top of the order. Top to bottom we hit the ball well.

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

Leah threw a great ballgame. It's great to see her back to her normal self. I was glad to see that.

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.

She threw a great ball game. She did a great job all day long. I mean, we lose a game to Conway and she only gave up one hit. It was just a great effort by her.

She's got some tools that not many have. She's a hard worker and she's strong. Her bat speed probably rivals a bunch of college kids. She's aggressive, and right now, those are things you can't teach as a coach.

She's got a great future ahead of her. We need to remember that. I think she does too. She didn't back down. She has that ability to go out and dominate a game.

She scored three times. You kind of take it for granted since you expect the ball to be hit every time. She's a catalyst.

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.

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.

Morgan did a great job throwing. She got ahead all night long, and I was glad to see that. It's not something we can take for granted. We can't assume we are going to score six or seven runs a night.

For us to strike out that many times was unacceptable. I was unhappy with that. I didn't think we accepted the challenge. It's getting old out-hitting teams.

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.

It bothers me that a kid throws well that long and then it's in her hands. We lost a little focus and then we lost the no-hitter. She still threw a great ball game.

It bothers me that a kid throws the ball so well out there for that long and not get the perfect game. She threw a great ball game.

I was extremely happy with how our kids responded. We came right back and scored five of our own.

That was a sore spot for tonight. But our kids will produce. I know when they get back in that position they will be all right.

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.

We came back and started swinging the bats the way we're capable of the last half of the day. These conditions are pretty much on the horrible side, but the kids showed some great character and stuck to it and played very well in the end.

Two, big clutch hits. We had three, two-run hits and that tells me that we have kids coming up and producing in scoring situations.

You had to worry about some fatigue. But for the most part they came out and got after it.

We are going to dance with who brought us here. We like to swing the bats more. Any coach would take advantage of what they have in abundance.

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

Farmington is a young team. I'm sure it's not the same team we're going to see next week.

It was a long day. There was a lot of character to come back. To lose 3-2 and not lay down ù these kids have done stuff like this in summer league.

Amanda gave up only one hit to arguably one of the best hitting teams in the state. What more is there to say?

They didn't come in bunches. I think we had opportunities to score more than we did. A couple of times we left some runners out there.

There was a lot of unsung heroes for us. It was a team effort. Sometimes people get lost in the shuffle. But it takes an entire group. They earned it and there was nothing given to them.

It's a win. I'm not going to trade it in. But we're going to have to play better if we're going to play a long time.

It's another accomplishment for us. We have two games left and we'd like to continue pedaling down the hill instead of coasting.

It seemed like we got a lot of two-out hits in this game. You can't risk getting the runner thrown out when you already have two outs.

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.

They made a lot of catches tonight; they earned their money out there.

Anytime you beat a team that was in front of you, you've got to feel pretty good.

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.

I'm not happy with the way we swung the bat today. We swung at some bad pitches. We will have to do a better job of hitting if we want to play a long time, but for the most part it was a win and I'm not going to take anything away from 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.

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