John Book, for his first start of the year, pitched a great game. He gave us a really good effort today on the mound.

Games like this are good for us. It will get us ready for next week. It's always good playing the quality competition Althoff provides.

There has to be some effort to give everyone an equal chance. And they cannot make it a sham.

We were a lot closer than we were farther away, and I'm proud of our effort. Rancho Verde is no slouch. At the beginning of the season, I knew it would be a dogfight twice. One went their way and one went our way.

We have been relying on team effort, not so much as one individual. Everyone stepped up at Ball State and they all played pretty even, as indicated by their scores. We need to improve our short game, though. That was what hurt us the most at Ball State, and we lost some shots around the green. Our course management will be the key to our success this weekend.

The effort was there. It was as good an effort in a loss as you could have. We clawed. We scrapped. But you can't lose on the glass and shoot a low percentage like we did.