We just wanted to come out strong and focus on defense. (The early lead) gave us a lot of confidence.

She brings dynamic defense, both infield and outfield. Chelsea has an extremely good range. It gets us up when she makes a good play on defense and this year she's really established herself and made some great plays really setting herself above other shortstops as truly great.

They pretty much stayed in their base defense and waited for us to make a mistake. But we did a good job of taking care of the ball and Peyton made some really good decisions out there.

Their defense bothered us tonight. I scouted them four times and I didn't see that kind of play in (Prosper) in any of the other four games. I didn't think they would come out that aggressive on us.

It gives us a lot [of confidence]. I think for opening Big Ten weekend, we played well.

Getting a jump-start would be amazing. It gives us confidence and takes the stress off of the defense and pitching.