The key was defense. It was a good team effort.

The girls are playing well, the defense is there and the pitching is there. The defense made the plays that needed to be made.

We had a good effort and we played hard. I thought we played pretty good defense against them. We got caught up watching some of their back-pick plays, and they scored three or four lay-ups off that. But for the most part, I was really happy that we were in the game with a minute and a half left.

It's one of those games you fear having after coming off a couple good ones. We did not take advantage of their errors. They did everything they had to do to shut us down.

I thought in the first game the kids did a good job of hanging in there. Megan Braun really hung in there and pitched well.

That was a true team effort. Our whole game is predicated on our defense. Tonight (Friday), we got after it and didn't let them do what they wanted.