Rich Anderson
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"Richard "Rich" Anderson" is the Iowa State Representative from the 97th District. He has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2005.

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At the beginning of the year we couldn't get the big hit. Now, we've gotten some big hits and it's freed some guys up. We've tried to get them to be aggressive and attack early but they haven't done it. Today, it was nice to jump out and score some runs early instead of playing from behind.

It was a wild game with a ton of distractions, but our guys really hung in there and competed. The whole coaching staff is proud of how these guys have really learned how to fight and believe that they can get the job done.

Chase didn't have his stuff today. But he still came out and competed. Davis is a good team, that's why they're in first place.

Our guys are competing now, but we just need to get over the hump. We still need to play a bit cleaner and find a way to get our offense rolling.

Anything higher would be quite a stretch in my mind. Essex has a fantastic track record, and most observers view them as a great management team, value-added group.

We know we're the underdogs, we have a young team. We have to come out and play. We're not going to evaluate on wins and losses, we're going to evaluate on our effort.

I think the last two games ? we lost by one run ? they didn't know how to get over the hump. They get caught in the moment. (Today) they didn't worry about the score. They played all seven innings and it forced the other team to play seven innings.

(Azevedo) didn't have his stuff today but he just kept kind of competing.

We understand our underdog role and hopefully our players will relish the fact that other schools in our league and section see us as underdogs.