They've been outdoors, they've played four games already against good competition. They're ahead of us, no doubt about it.

From watching games on TV, it seems like there is a competition between us, but there definitely isn't at all. I think we just work really well together. And it's tough for any team to stop both of us because most teams have one big girl.

Our bullpen is still up in the air. We have to batten down the hatches a little bit.

It stinks that we won the first two and ended up with a split. I just feel like we had them right where we wanted them and we let them slip away with a split.

There were some goofy decisions that had to be made that wouldn't normally wouldn't have been made. Maybe I need to start doing some more of that stuff. [We played] every inning like it was the ninth inning.

John is a great athlete who has shown great improvement over the past season. He's got a great breaking ball and can put some good velocity on his pitches. He comes from a Penn State family, and has the work ethic to be successful in the classroom and on the field.