I think the most important thing in this first game was to come out with a good feeling and a good sense of accomplishment.

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We had phenomenal pitching, and when you can take their offense and shut it down like Ashley did, that was awesome.

248

We're looking for the hot bat and the combinations that are really going to click. The team is getting better and some people are making the most of their opportunities so we've got to continue to go that way.

215

They're going to have to learn how to handle their roles. Some who played last year might not play as much this year. We have some good freshmen.

197

Hopefully as we go along in the season we play better and we start playing better competition. But whoever you go out there (against), the object is still the same.

190

I think we're going to try and give them different looks and hopefully give them three different pitchers so that they're not going to be able to gauge their bats on who's pitching.

136

We stayed to the plan pretty well. [Serrano] came in relief one time but we had the relief situation all planned. I'm pretty happy with the pitching right now.

129

Things that we've worked on -- the two-strike approach, hitting your spots, picking each other up in certain situations -- I thought those were really important and they did a really good job of that.

109

It's just one of those things. Katie is just going to have to stay patient and do what she can.

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