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We just didn't pitch in the second game. The big inning killed us again. A lot of times the team tha...
JAMES MANSINGER We were more ready to play the second game. There wasn't any excuse for losing the first game.
ERIN HORN We stunk defensively, plain and simple.
DEAN BERARDO (The Wolverines) jumped on in the second game 36-5, so we knew we had to sustain that first blow. We...
ZACH PUCHTEL We came out flat. In the second inning, we couldn't make a play. That was our downfall right there.
WESLEY TAKIMOTO We knew they'd come out — with the atmosphere of the game and electricity in the air — they'd co...
A.J. HAWK They always come ready to play and they gave us a tough time over there. It's a rivalry game, so we ...
JOE BLINE We didn't wake up until the fourth inning. After that we played 11 innings of pretty good baseball. ...
BARRY RUSSELL We knew we had the ability to come back. We just didn't come out ready to play in the first half, an...
GRANT RICE We went into the locker room and (Dyke) told us that before the game, they were ready to play and we...
DUSTIE ROBERTSON We just have to get ready to go. We have to treat every game like we're playing Arizona. We have to ...
RYAN APPLEBY We're ready for that. If the referees let us play tough, physical play, we are ready to compete and ...
LUKASZ OBRZUT I thought we did a good job of coming out ready to play and keeping our foot on the gas from the sta...
BRIAN CLEARY![]()
That one inning killed us; it killed us bad. We just have to step it up in the future and make the e...
JAMES TAYLOR We really thought we had that game won, but luck didn't fall our way. We had a tough time getting ov...
ASHLEY LONCARICH We play pretty good at home. Actually, we play extremely well at home. But away from home, we just a...
JOSE GIL Just about every game this year, the first inning has killed us. The girls have butterflies. They're...
GARY BLACKWELL It was the second quarter that killed us. Without that one period, we played a pretty decent game ag...
KYLE GORDON We're excited to be hosting a first round game. Anything can happen in a one-game situation. We have...
AB ARGENT Our coach talked about coming out and getting a fast start. Last game, we didn't come out really rea...
GREG BOLLING We had to turn it up and play hard. Coach told us at halftime that we had to play hard for those 16 ...
TELYSHIA ADAMS We didn't seem to have much energy today. We have to get more mentally tough and ready to play that ...
RANDY JORDAN Hopefully we will come out an play better in the first period. That basically put us out of our game...
ELISEO SALDIVAR They definitely took us out of some of the stuff we try to run. We just didn't come out ready to pla...
BRYSON KRUEGER We played well the second inning through the sixth, just not the first and the seventh. Our pitchers...
GARY ENIS We came out ready to play. This was the first time in four years that we beat Bloomington.
DAVE SHOWALTER We came out in the first half, and we weren't ready to play. I don't want to say we gave them the re...
GARY DOHERTY We didn't come out and play real well in the first half versus UNO. In the second half we dominated.
LORI ULFERTS The first game, the errors killed us. We had four errors that game and our pitcher, I believe, pitch...
JENNY MEIROWSKY That was the key to the first game. The second game, we put the ball in play a lot better. Our kids ...
CHRIS HAWKINS We came out too tight. We were finally ready to play (in Game 2).
DON NOORDA We haven't been scoring in the first inning, and the fact that we got those runs in the first inning...
GARY MINER Whatever it is -- the last five minutes of the first half, the first four minutes of the second half...
ED DECHELLIS We just know now we need to come out strong in the first half. We just came out to play in the secon...
KYLEE MCARTHUR It was a game of two halves. We didn't come out and compete in the first half. We're not a great tea...
GARY HOLQUIST We were getting frustrated in the first half. We had to come out focused in the second half and play...
DOMINIQUE JOHNSON Both teams experienced this, so it wasn't just us. That cannot be a factor when you come out and pla...
JERMAREO DAVIDSON We knew we had to come out and play with more passion in the second half. Omro had a great game plan...
DEAN VANDER PLAS If we let (being) the top seed go to our heads and we come out really cocky, other teams that really...
JASMINE WALKER We know what can happen when you don't come ready to play these teams. We're just making sure when w...
DANTON COLE There's something about this team. Our bats seem to come alive after the fifth inning. We had some t...
BRYANT KITTY That second quarter was critical. We needed to come out strong and reinforce the pace and style of t...
BRIAN RICKER We had an easy double-play ball and didn't turn it in the first inning. If we make that play, none o...
EMPSY THOMPSON We had people not making weight. We just didn't come ready to wrestle, plain and simple.
BILL HUTCHINSON I think on Friday we didn't come out as ready as we came out (Sunday). Friday was kind of like a war...
LAUREN BROWN It seems like every game we come out flat in the second half. I wish we didn't have halftime. Just p...
MARCUS GRANT I think when we first started doing it four years ago, we wanted to make the tournament so tough for...
BRIAN METRESS One bad play can come back and haunt you. That's what happened a lot to us this year. We played a go...
ERIC PATTERSON Hopefully, we can put this behind us and come out ready to play against Pius. This was a shock to al...
GREG VOCK We're waiting. We want to play our first game out there. Everybody has a big grin on their face. I t...
ADRIAN MOLINA We couldn't wait to get to tonight's game because we felt that Roncalli loss devastated us. We had a...
JIM O'HARA If we have time, we might play Atlanta after that second game. Royce City wanted to come down here a...
ROBBIE HATFIELD We didn't come out with any intensity. We looked like we were asleep in the first inning. You can't ...
SHAWN GILMER Coach [Downer] challenged us to pick it up in the second half. We needed to play well in the second ...
GARRETT WILLIAMSON There's a lot of pressure on us. But we respect every team that is here. We came out ready to play.
ANARIS SICKLES When we arrived in Cleveland (Monday) we were in the back of the bus and we said we know Gilbert is ...
CARON BUTLER We have to come out and play like it is our bowl game. That is what we did last year, and that is ho...
ANTOINE CASON That second quarter killed us.
RON MENEGON It seems like we didn't play a full game - we got a big lead early and the gave up a big inning. We ...
MARK ROWLAND We wanted to come out and get this first game. That was our main focus coming in to the game. Now we...
FLIP MURRAY We just didn't come ready to play. They came out and got us early, and they were very tenacious on t...
DAVE FRANZ This is much different than that game. That win boosted our confidence, but we have to come out hard...
ASHLEY VIGIL Hubbard had a great day. He had two real big two-out hits for us in the first and second game that w...
DALE HARPENAU When you have a big game, the tendency is to have a down game the next day. We were really afraid th...
ANDY GENTRY We seem to have those types of innings every game. We went brain-dead there in the second inning.
JOHNNY OLSEN We know that every team is going to come ready to play their best game against us and it can be diff...
ANARIS SICKLES Coach Brent is a defense-first coach like myself. We knew they'd come ready to play.
LUTHER RILEY Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That...
COSTA AGUILAR We were ready to play either way. We knew we had to play, it was the mistakes that cost us.
LUIS CAMACHO I think fatigue caught up with us. We used so much energy defensively (in the second half) that we g...
TUBE DAVIS We were better prepared to play the game and the kids came ready to play. The very first tip play ga...
BARRY PRUITT This is the kind of game we come to expect when we play Poland. Unfortunately for us we came out of ...
GEORGE STEVENS Our errors killed us in one inning.
BETH WALTERS They got off to a good start. A lot of that was our fault we just didn't come out ready to play.
MORRIS ALMOND Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN That second game shows us that we're almost there. We've still got to turn the corner, but it shows ...
HERB COURTNEY It just came down to the last second of the game and they made the big play. I told our girls after ...
BOBBY BRASEL Vernal came out more physical in the second game, and we sort of lost our cool. That took us out of ...
DARIN HICKEY I think we were trying to do too much in the first half, and in the second half we let the game come...
ANDREA REED What we said was to forget that last game. Everything we did that night was uncharacteristic of our ...
AMANDA SIMMONS We dominated in the second half and felt we did enough to win that game. We've got six games to go a...
MARK HUGHES Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's. He got the single up the m...
ADAM EVERETT Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's, ... He got the single up t...
ADAM EVERETT It was amazing. We said at the beginning of the second half that the first five minutes were the mos...
ASHLEY CORRAL That and getting the double-play in the second inning were definitely the two biggest situations I h...
DAVE BUSH It's an unforgiving league, and we knew that coming in and unfortunately I don't think we stepped ou...
CHAD WILLIAMS They beat us in every phase of the game. It was not a match. We were just not ready to play at that ...
DAVE SHOJI All three lines scored in that period. We didn't feel we were out of the game (after the second peri...
NICK POLLOS It was our last game here and we can't ever come back and play a game in Mackey, so we wanted to do ...
AYA TRAORE I was hoping the first inning wouldn't come back to haunt us. In the long run, it worked out OK.
CHARLA PARRISH We can't fault Will. When he pitches a game like that we should get a win.
ELISEO POMPA Holding penalties killed us. We hit a groove in the first half, and then slowed down considerably in...
WES LITTLEFIELD We did not execute on the simple parts of the game tonight. We were not ready mentally and when we g...
JEFF SCHEXNAIDER We were a little complacent that first half. It was a Saturday afternoon game and we, well, just did...
BOB SCHNURE We have to come out, especially at home and not let the other team get a jump on us like that. This ...
JAYCEE CARROLL We should have won the game. I stunk it up.
BRADEN LOOPER I thought we had good pitching, we just got stuck in that second inning.
EARL HARTMAN It was a big game and we didn't come ready to play. I don't know what it was, but we weren't prepare...
AARON GREEN We just didn't come ready to play.
ALONZO GEE We just came in ready to play. We didn't want to lose again. We knew that we had to come out and pla...
ASHLEY MCFARLAND
JAMES MANSINGER We were more ready to play the second game. There wasn't any excuse for losing the first game.
ERIN HORN We stunk defensively, plain and simple.
DEAN BERARDO (The Wolverines) jumped on in the second game 36-5, so we knew we had to sustain that first blow. We...
ZACH PUCHTEL We came out flat. In the second inning, we couldn't make a play. That was our downfall right there.
WESLEY TAKIMOTO We knew they'd come out — with the atmosphere of the game and electricity in the air — they'd co...
A.J. HAWK They always come ready to play and they gave us a tough time over there. It's a rivalry game, so we ...
JOE BLINE We didn't wake up until the fourth inning. After that we played 11 innings of pretty good baseball. ...
BARRY RUSSELL We knew we had the ability to come back. We just didn't come out ready to play in the first half, an...
GRANT RICE We went into the locker room and (Dyke) told us that before the game, they were ready to play and we...
DUSTIE ROBERTSON We just have to get ready to go. We have to treat every game like we're playing Arizona. We have to ...
RYAN APPLEBY We're ready for that. If the referees let us play tough, physical play, we are ready to compete and ...
LUKASZ OBRZUT I thought we did a good job of coming out ready to play and keeping our foot on the gas from the sta...
BRIAN CLEARY
That one inning killed us; it killed us bad. We just have to step it up in the future and make the e... JAMES TAYLOR We really thought we had that game won, but luck didn't fall our way. We had a tough time getting ov...
ASHLEY LONCARICH We play pretty good at home. Actually, we play extremely well at home. But away from home, we just a...
JOSE GIL Just about every game this year, the first inning has killed us. The girls have butterflies. They're...
GARY BLACKWELL It was the second quarter that killed us. Without that one period, we played a pretty decent game ag...
KYLE GORDON We're excited to be hosting a first round game. Anything can happen in a one-game situation. We have...
AB ARGENT Our coach talked about coming out and getting a fast start. Last game, we didn't come out really rea...
GREG BOLLING We had to turn it up and play hard. Coach told us at halftime that we had to play hard for those 16 ...
TELYSHIA ADAMS We didn't seem to have much energy today. We have to get more mentally tough and ready to play that ...
RANDY JORDAN Hopefully we will come out an play better in the first period. That basically put us out of our game...
ELISEO SALDIVAR They definitely took us out of some of the stuff we try to run. We just didn't come out ready to pla...
BRYSON KRUEGER We played well the second inning through the sixth, just not the first and the seventh. Our pitchers...
GARY ENIS We came out ready to play. This was the first time in four years that we beat Bloomington.
DAVE SHOWALTER We came out in the first half, and we weren't ready to play. I don't want to say we gave them the re...
GARY DOHERTY We didn't come out and play real well in the first half versus UNO. In the second half we dominated.
LORI ULFERTS The first game, the errors killed us. We had four errors that game and our pitcher, I believe, pitch...
JENNY MEIROWSKY That was the key to the first game. The second game, we put the ball in play a lot better. Our kids ...
CHRIS HAWKINS We came out too tight. We were finally ready to play (in Game 2).
DON NOORDA We haven't been scoring in the first inning, and the fact that we got those runs in the first inning...
GARY MINER Whatever it is -- the last five minutes of the first half, the first four minutes of the second half...
ED DECHELLIS We just know now we need to come out strong in the first half. We just came out to play in the secon...
KYLEE MCARTHUR It was a game of two halves. We didn't come out and compete in the first half. We're not a great tea...
GARY HOLQUIST We were getting frustrated in the first half. We had to come out focused in the second half and play...
DOMINIQUE JOHNSON Both teams experienced this, so it wasn't just us. That cannot be a factor when you come out and pla...
JERMAREO DAVIDSON We knew we had to come out and play with more passion in the second half. Omro had a great game plan...
DEAN VANDER PLAS If we let (being) the top seed go to our heads and we come out really cocky, other teams that really...
JASMINE WALKER We know what can happen when you don't come ready to play these teams. We're just making sure when w...
DANTON COLE There's something about this team. Our bats seem to come alive after the fifth inning. We had some t...
BRYANT KITTY That second quarter was critical. We needed to come out strong and reinforce the pace and style of t...
BRIAN RICKER We had an easy double-play ball and didn't turn it in the first inning. If we make that play, none o...
EMPSY THOMPSON We had people not making weight. We just didn't come ready to wrestle, plain and simple.
BILL HUTCHINSON I think on Friday we didn't come out as ready as we came out (Sunday). Friday was kind of like a war...
LAUREN BROWN It seems like every game we come out flat in the second half. I wish we didn't have halftime. Just p...
MARCUS GRANT I think when we first started doing it four years ago, we wanted to make the tournament so tough for...
BRIAN METRESS One bad play can come back and haunt you. That's what happened a lot to us this year. We played a go...
ERIC PATTERSON Hopefully, we can put this behind us and come out ready to play against Pius. This was a shock to al...
GREG VOCK We're waiting. We want to play our first game out there. Everybody has a big grin on their face. I t...
ADRIAN MOLINA We couldn't wait to get to tonight's game because we felt that Roncalli loss devastated us. We had a...
JIM O'HARA If we have time, we might play Atlanta after that second game. Royce City wanted to come down here a...
ROBBIE HATFIELD We didn't come out with any intensity. We looked like we were asleep in the first inning. You can't ...
SHAWN GILMER Coach [Downer] challenged us to pick it up in the second half. We needed to play well in the second ...
GARRETT WILLIAMSON There's a lot of pressure on us. But we respect every team that is here. We came out ready to play.
ANARIS SICKLES When we arrived in Cleveland (Monday) we were in the back of the bus and we said we know Gilbert is ...
CARON BUTLER We have to come out and play like it is our bowl game. That is what we did last year, and that is ho...
ANTOINE CASON That second quarter killed us.
RON MENEGON It seems like we didn't play a full game - we got a big lead early and the gave up a big inning. We ...
MARK ROWLAND We wanted to come out and get this first game. That was our main focus coming in to the game. Now we...
FLIP MURRAY We just didn't come ready to play. They came out and got us early, and they were very tenacious on t...
DAVE FRANZ This is much different than that game. That win boosted our confidence, but we have to come out hard...
ASHLEY VIGIL Hubbard had a great day. He had two real big two-out hits for us in the first and second game that w...
DALE HARPENAU When you have a big game, the tendency is to have a down game the next day. We were really afraid th...
ANDY GENTRY We seem to have those types of innings every game. We went brain-dead there in the second inning.
JOHNNY OLSEN We know that every team is going to come ready to play their best game against us and it can be diff...
ANARIS SICKLES Coach Brent is a defense-first coach like myself. We knew they'd come ready to play.
LUTHER RILEY Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That...
COSTA AGUILAR We were ready to play either way. We knew we had to play, it was the mistakes that cost us.
LUIS CAMACHO I think fatigue caught up with us. We used so much energy defensively (in the second half) that we g...
TUBE DAVIS We were better prepared to play the game and the kids came ready to play. The very first tip play ga...
BARRY PRUITT This is the kind of game we come to expect when we play Poland. Unfortunately for us we came out of ...
GEORGE STEVENS Our errors killed us in one inning.
BETH WALTERS They got off to a good start. A lot of that was our fault we just didn't come out ready to play.
MORRIS ALMOND Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN That second game shows us that we're almost there. We've still got to turn the corner, but it shows ...
HERB COURTNEY It just came down to the last second of the game and they made the big play. I told our girls after ...
BOBBY BRASEL Vernal came out more physical in the second game, and we sort of lost our cool. That took us out of ...
DARIN HICKEY I think we were trying to do too much in the first half, and in the second half we let the game come...
ANDREA REED What we said was to forget that last game. Everything we did that night was uncharacteristic of our ...
AMANDA SIMMONS We dominated in the second half and felt we did enough to win that game. We've got six games to go a...
MARK HUGHES Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's. He got the single up the m...
ADAM EVERETT Actually, I think the biggest at-bat of that whole inning was Quintero's, ... He got the single up t...
ADAM EVERETT It was amazing. We said at the beginning of the second half that the first five minutes were the mos...
ASHLEY CORRAL That and getting the double-play in the second inning were definitely the two biggest situations I h...
DAVE BUSH It's an unforgiving league, and we knew that coming in and unfortunately I don't think we stepped ou...
CHAD WILLIAMS They beat us in every phase of the game. It was not a match. We were just not ready to play at that ...
DAVE SHOJI All three lines scored in that period. We didn't feel we were out of the game (after the second peri...
NICK POLLOS It was our last game here and we can't ever come back and play a game in Mackey, so we wanted to do ...
AYA TRAORE I was hoping the first inning wouldn't come back to haunt us. In the long run, it worked out OK.
CHARLA PARRISH We can't fault Will. When he pitches a game like that we should get a win.
ELISEO POMPA Holding penalties killed us. We hit a groove in the first half, and then slowed down considerably in...
WES LITTLEFIELD We did not execute on the simple parts of the game tonight. We were not ready mentally and when we g...
JEFF SCHEXNAIDER We were a little complacent that first half. It was a Saturday afternoon game and we, well, just did...
BOB SCHNURE We have to come out, especially at home and not let the other team get a jump on us like that. This ...
JAYCEE CARROLL We should have won the game. I stunk it up.
BRADEN LOOPER I thought we had good pitching, we just got stuck in that second inning.
EARL HARTMAN It was a big game and we didn't come ready to play. I don't know what it was, but we weren't prepare...
AARON GREEN We just didn't come ready to play.
ALONZO GEE We just came in ready to play. We didn't want to lose again. We knew that we had to come out and pla...
ASHLEY MCFARLAND
