Shumaker will be our horse. He throws in the upper 60s and low 70s in big games.

This is a bunch of kids that are big game players that step up in the limelight. We have a lot of mentally tough kids.

It was a great place to grow up, and I had a lot of fun there. Once you start a family and move away to a bigger city, you tend to appreciate the small-town living of Ottumwa.

I don't even think its sunk in yet how lucky or how big this is going to be. They are just taking it in stride, and they are eating it up. It's going to be an everlasting memory for each and every one of them.