Kim pitched well. They started to getting to her later in the game, and we had an error in the third inning. If we can get out of the inning without an error, we give up maybe a couple runs instead of five.

What it came down to is that we executed early. We were hitting the ball well but right at them. We could have had more runs, but we kept plugging away.

Morris threw very hard and it took us a while to try and catch up to her. Their hitting was better than ours today, but defensively, we played much better than we did in Colorado and that was encouraging to me.

What impressed me most is that we didn't stop competing. When we play the level of competition that we do, it's important for us to keep competing. That's only going to help us when we come to conference play.

When you're not getting base-runners, it makes for a long day in the field at times. I thought Kim and Jen each pitched well, they didn't walk a bunch of hitters. Valley City hit the ball really well. We're looking at trying to get better and playing these teams will help us do that.

We tried to stay with them. We got to their first couple of pitchers pretty well and had some chances to score more runs.

It was one of those things where everything just snowballed on (Martin Luther).

We have had a tough schedule these first twelve games, with the level of play we've seen. That's only going to help us get better and be better players come conference time.