The strike zone suddenly shrunk. We battled through it and came back to trail 6-4 but could get no closer.

Taylor looked good. He missed some spots early, but had a lot of strikeouts.

We have to work on defense next season, make it a focus from Day 1. Making routine plays has been our Achilles all year. Tonight was an exclamation point on that. This was a game we should have won, but we didn't play seven full innings.

They (Heritage) executed behind two or three good hit-and-runs and they found the holes when they needed to. We made a few mistakes physically and mentally, which compounded into long innings for us.

Steven did a great job working out of jams by keeping the ball down. I can't say enough about his effort.

Jacob Green came in and absolutely shut them down. He did a really nice job, gave them absolutely zero opportunities in the last three innings of that game.