Joe Rodeghero Quotations

We're right where we want to be in the Catholic League race. We have a big date coming up with St. Rita at the end of the year and we need to keep winning until then.

Losing Grant was a key in this game. Dan was nervous out there and made an error early on, but then he made 3-4 great plays. He didn't give us the offense Grant would have, but we didn't expect him to. He came in and played defense the way we wanted.

Sean did a great job changing speeds against a lineup 1-9 that is as tough as you will see. He made them swing the bat, and then you make some plays and it gives the pitcher confidence.

Cedric (Redmond) and Brian (Stroud) both looked free and easy. Brian was in control all the way.

We talked about putting the ball in play and battling against Cedric. Early in the game, we hit the ball hard but they made great defensive plays, and the wind blowing in might have affected a couple of balls we hit well.

He is the face of Providence athletics. He's seen the good, the bad, the great. He's brought the program to the point where it is today. The kids love him. He not only gave them football knowledge, he gave them life knowledge.

Last week we were happy to finish second in the tournament. Now today we're disappointed that we didn't win. They're a great team and I think we're still a little behind, but not too far. We're a pretty good 6-5 team.

People might wonder why we weren't up there taking a pitch in the seventh. Well, if you get first pitch fastball down the middle, we're going to hack. The disappointing part was we didn't get on top of the ball and hit ground balls and line drives the last couple of innings.

I thought he was done. I thought it might be a broken ankle or possibly his knee.

We had six hits, but we couldn't bunch any together. We had the bases loaded with one out in the sixth and scored only one run.

Brian did an outstanding job. He pitched as hard today as he ever has. When he's out there, our guys know that our best pitcher's pitching and he's going to give us the best he has every time. I wasn't real worried about him and the wind. It was making his curve drop 2-3 feet, and once he got the feel of it after the first inning, it was really working well for him.

Fenwick was undefeated in the conference, so this puts us on top with St. Rita in the Catholic League Blue. We had 14 hits again and everybody in the lineup had a hit, so we're starting to hit the ball with authority and play better baseball.

The game ended with a bases loaded, line-drive double play, so we were right there.