We have a lot of returning players, and the new players have a lot of experience from playing year-round.

When I heard about the program, I really wanted to do it for the experience.

We're very glad to have this group on board. I think with the experience they have and the level of softball they have played at, they will be of great benefit to this successful program.

I was really pleased with our effort today, especially on the last four holes. Everyone stepped up at different times for us, but our work has just begun. We will work tonight on getting as fresh as we can for tomorrow and see what happens from there.

We had Katie (Ferguson) throw a lot before the game today because she needs a lot of warm-up, so I think she was getting tired in the middle of the sixth inning. It was a tough situation to bring Kate (Brown) into, but we got out of it.

We were very pleasantly surprised.