We had to get fired back up. When we got off to that big lead, we thought we'd beat them. We figured they were done. Then they came back and scored, and that lit a fire underneath us.

That (home run) was incredible. I never would have thought in a million years that would happen. I'm used to hitting singles and doubles, and that came out of nowhere. That shut them down.

Every game that we win, it's going to be less and less pressure. We've just got to sharpen up the sticks.

It takes a lot of pressure off our shoulders to get through the first game. It's huge . . . just relief.

He hit that (three-pointer) over me in the first game of the season. I thought I contested it so hard the first game and he still made it. I was, like, 'Not again.' But he missed it.

I thought Cory Hiatt also had a phenomenal game defensively.