It was a great game, especially for this early in the year. I was proud of our kids that we fought back when it was 2-0 and gave ourselves a chance to win.

When Alicia tied the game it was just a classic battle between two great competitors.

She just continues to come up with big hits. But we got lucky and gutted it out. We had a lot of plays that went for errors.

You watch the babies in the fields and they?re trying to beat each other out there. So when they?re young, you keep them together.

Yeah, and I like the way we did it. Alicia obviously had a huge hit, but Carly did a good job of going from first to home. Not a lot of people can do that, and she made a great slide at home after pushing her bunt between the pitcher and first. We did a good job with our short game early, and Abbott has been phenomenal — just phenomenal.

We had a good combination of good hitting, very good pitching and fine defense.