These girls work hard. They stay after practice, they take batting lessons, pitching lessons. The focus has been there all year and they are well prepared.

I've got great girls who are focused, work hard at practice, and they make adjustments when they're asked.

We still have a young team, there's no seniors. So we can kind of mold our players into our own team. Also, the girls are talented players , disciplined and confident in their abilities.

All programs go through cycles. We've had a winning tradition here and not a lot of programs have that. We are fortunate to have a very talented group of players who know what it takes to win and we feel like we can get right back where this program has been.

The girls work on that, they play keep-away every day at practice. They know how to stall.

Having those days off will help the girls later on. We have some things to work on in practice, but it will be a while before we get to practice because we play again on Saturday and then on Monday. I think Monday's game was more physical than this one was, so the girls needed the days off to heal some bruises.