Hopefully, that will give our players a little bit of incentive to prove to their fans, their friends, that this is Division I softball and we're much better than what we have been.

In essence, it's not so much what Penn State does, but it's how we're going to react to them. If we swing at good pitches, then we should be successful.

Usually the case of teams that are fairly similar, one team is going to let up mentally.

So many of our friends, families and fans lost their homes, not to mention their livelihoods, so we are very fortunate in that we can continue on with a portion of our lives, which is playing music, being positive and making people feel good.

We don't have fans, we have friends. And when you look at them as friends, everybody (is) coming together for the same purpose, just getting excited about our faith.

It's not clear what will happen to Europe. A lot of questions have been raised by this vote and none of this is immediately positive.