We expected them to make us work, and they certainly did. We took too many penalties.

I think it scares a couple of us. We were around when softball was made an Olympic sport, and we were so happy. It's just something you've always got to worry about.

There's no doubt it's a different time for us, but we're just focusing on the players who are still here. Everything changes. It's never going to be like it was before, but you have to move on and try to win.

She doesn't have the shop any longer, but she is still doing interior designing and will help us here.

When you have another person breathing down your neck, you're going to work harder. It pushes us to do better. We are working harder then we thought we could ever work and are doing things we didn't think we could do.

It was definitely a difficult task for the coaches. We didn't know who would be picked for the team.