We hit the ball very hard tonight, especially on the ground. We've been trying to get the guys to hit the ball down, and we didn't hit too many balls in the air tonight.

WHY COULDN'T McCOVEY HAVE HIT THE BALL JUST THREE FEET HIGHER?

He hurt his ankle after districts, and we were kind of concerned how he'd be tonight. He threw the ball well tonight. That's probably as well as he's thrown all year.

We got what, 11 hits tonight? Did we hit some balls good, yeah. But we're still not raking the ball.

We just didn't hit the ball tonight. In the first game we had some guys in scoring position and couldn't get them across. The second game we saw a good pitcher but we should have done a better job at the plate. In the first game we needed hits and we just put the ball in play. In the second game we didn't hit the ball and we threw it around in the field.

We just didn't shoot the ball well at all tonight. It was awful. Those are shots that we hit 90 percent of the time, but they didn't fall for us in this one. This was a tough, tough loss and a game we felt like we could've won.