Mitch Ashmore Quotations

God loves baseball. It's not a real big deal. The colleges and pros they all play on Sundays.

We made two errors at the worst possible time that we could have. We probably would have gotten out of the inning if we held the ball. We didn't think real well when the situation came up. The way we're losing some of these games is awfully discouraging.

We couldn't do anything, but they had a lot to do with it. We didn't hit our spots well, and we had one guy swing the bat well. We got our butts kicked our hats handed to us and that's all you can say about it. They made the plays, and we made errors. It was a butt-kicking. I'm man enough to say it, and that's what happened today.

Trey is going to give us a chance every time he goes out there, and that's why I pitch him in big games.

Trey Corbett set the tone for us tonight. Not only did he give us six quality innings, but he also went 4-for-4. He hit the ball very hard. We were very proud of him.

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

We are not able to make routine plays. That was the only difference in the game. We simply cannot be consistent enough on defense.

We had a chance to make a showing. We never had a chance to win the game because we didn't come to play. We had chances to score runs, but we couldn't put the ball in play.

We were down 6-4 going into the fourth. They scored (almost) all their runs in the bottom of the third. That was their big inning. After that we started hitting the ball well after our initial shock of getting behind. We had to flip the switch around the fifth inning.

They had only one earned run. We out-hit them. We had 10 hits. We had two home runs. You look at the numbers and wonder how we got beat.

It's always good to get a district win, but I am very displeased with the way that we played tonight. River Oaks has good athletes, and we just got lucky. They deserved it more than we did.

Sylva Bay has got some strong kids and a very physical team. Anything can happen in baseball when you strap it on, and give us credit for having the ability for hanging in there and getting the job done.

He's got a good mentality about himself. He's able to throw strikes no matter what the situation is. He's able to go back and stay where he needs to be. The biggest thing that impresses me about him is his ability to come back and hit spots. It's a very difficult thing for a high school senior.

Their kid threw a pretty good ball game. We didn't hit the ball well until the end. We finally hit the ball in the seventh. We got the hits when we needed them.