The South Park coach made a classy gesture by presenting the game ball to our starting pitcher and then she went home and had the ball cut in half and gave the other half to April, which I thought was pretty cool.

Their starting pitcher had two really tough pitches. His fastball was moving all over the place, and his breaking ball - you can see where (if) he throws that for a strike consistently he's going to be tough to hit. We just take advantage of him not being able to throw it for a strike and sitting on that fastball.

We never had this luxury before and it's a nice problem to have. It's an obvious advantage over any team, especially if you go to extra innings because your second pitcher won't be as winded.

We'd like to win [in the playoffs] this time and not just get there. Last year was a pretty good experience with a pretty young team. It was good for our girls to experience it, but now that they've got their feet wet, I don't think they'll be as intimidated.

I'm not saying this to be political, but it really was a team effort.

Miranda threw a very good ball game, but we hung in there against a good pitcher and had timely hits. Then Chelsea steps up and scores a run.