It felt great. You'd have thought we won district.

I thought we didn't choose very good pitches to swing at. We were anxious to hit and didn't make good choices at the plate.

We just seemed to keep digging a bigger hole for ourselves today. Abilene High hit the ball well, and I'll give them credit for that. There's nothing you can say when they're hitting the ball well. But we had some opportunities we didn't really take hold of.

We came out and hit the ball great in the first inning. It wasn't like they were making errors, we were just hitting well.

I'm still happy with how we're competing. That's been important and, I think, kept our team together.

It's sure not for lack of effort, and it's not that it doesn't matter to them. It does. It's just not happening. And I don't know why.