We had everything working for us, our pitching, hitting and fielding in the first two weeks.

When we were competing, Rolex did a print ad with us, and Kellogg's put us on a cereal box. But there was no real monetary gain.

By all means, we are not out of the hunt with three losses. It is a 15-game conference season, and we expect to be back in the race.

Our kids never gave up. We battled back.

Not getting two runners in with only one out really hurt. There are two ways to look at that. It is a positive that we were able to get the runners on base, but it was a negative not being aggressive enough at the plate to bring them in.

We are a good team but have just hit one of those times when we can't put our hitting together and our fielding has not been as good as we need it to be.