When a couple of guys hit three's like that, it kind of relaxes you as a team. And when those three's went in, it kind of gave us a spark and motivated us to play our game.

That's kind of where I made my resurgence pitching.

It's a tribute to our defense when we can have this kind of offensive performance and still win against a good team like Mercer.

Anytime you can hold a team to zero points for a whole quarter, you have to tip your hat to the guys in the locker room. We always try to set the tempo during a game. Today, they slowed it down on us. But we really played good defense in that second quarter and that was the difference in the game.

They stayed with us for awhile. But we really began to get our offense going late in the second and into the third quarter. We were able to turn good defense into good offense.

We hadn't played in awhile, so we were a little rusty in the beginning. But we got stronger as the game went on.