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Brian continues to be one of the best defensive catchers in the game, shutting the running game down. Offensively, his on-base percentage and slugging percentage continue to improve every single year. His strikeouts continue to be reduced every year.

Jim Bowden

Danielle had 10 strikeouts and Tiffany had 11 strikeouts. That's just awesome.

Veronica Wiggins

It was beautiful. She was totally dominant (in the circle). She didn't get a lot of strikeouts, but she hit her spots and kept them off-balance. They didn't hit the ball hard and the defense was solid behind her. I was very happy with our defense today.

Ken Ashlock

He was on today. It was little wet, damp and cold, but he battled. He didn't have a lot of strikeouts, but he was in control. He got ahead in the count constantly.

Chris Hawkins

That was a big clutch hit from Mitch. Two-out hits are big. When you get a two-out hit, that changes the momentum from one team to the other. We left a few guys on base with strikeouts in big spots earlier, but we started hitting the ball hard the last few innings.

Randy Bretag

I'm not into stats. Nine strikeouts is a plus, but the main thing is just to be back. My arm felt great and I was hitting my spots and keeping the ball down.

Jason Berken

This wasn't my team tonight. We got a couple strikeouts in the first inning and scored two runs. We were pretty excited after the first inning.

Connie Wunschel

Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's going to give up his fair share of home runs, but he'll get his share of strikeouts, too.

Brian Anderson

We had only four strikeouts in the game and batted well at the plate.

Dale Lortz

Logan is throwing the ball very well. In two outings he's given up 4 or 5 hits with 17 strikeouts. When you throw a lot of strikes it's easier to play rhythm baseball. We didn't have any errors tonight and that's something very big to build on.

Andy Hallett

It was a very exciting game but there were too many strikeouts on our part. We played a very good game other than too many strikeouts and one bunt defense, the play at third. You have to give Auburn credit. They were a team below .500 and they wanted this game tonight.

Steve Kittrell

You can't win unless your pitcher is throwing strikes. She's thrown a lot of strikeouts. But she has a good defense behind her. ... If she gives up a hit, they will make the play.

Ron Hoyt

It was really exciting for us to get our bats going like we did today. Everyone really contributed today. We've been focusing on getting in the box and getting a pitch you can do something with and we really did that today. And we keep reducing our strikeouts with is nice to see.

Melinda Fischer

After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts and us not being able to get six outs without giving up some runs. We had been practicing kind of sluggish, and that carries over. But we bounced back Thursday and started hitting the ball. It was a good mental victory.

Lori Alexander

She's going to get you those strikeouts and the good thing is that she's not going to walk a bunch, and that keeps people off the bases. She's in her third year and she has control of her pitches. We always say that if we can get a couple of runs for her then we're going to win a lot of games.

Jamie Richardson

He has the tendency to get a little wild at times but, with 19 innings and just 15 hits, 13 strikeouts -- that's pretty good.

Shaun Mcginn

She was a junior college All-American, and it took us all year to finally sign her. She's a power pitcher. She's getting between eight and 12 strikeouts a game for us and does a nice job.

Sandy Montgomery

He had all three of his pitches working and had some key strikeouts with runners on base. He pitched a whale of a game.

Mike Shimek

I was just going out there trying to get outs to continue to keep my team in the game. I wasn't thinking about the strikeouts at all.

Mariangee Bogado

We saw a lot more strikeouts looking inside, which we haven't seen all year from Randy. He was able to keep that ball in there, keep it straight in there where it's not running back over the plate.

John Flaherty

[Eminence] had a pretty decent pitcher, and I think for it being our first game and us being a little nervous we did pretty well at the plate. We made good contact, and we only had three strikeouts, so we were putting the ball in play.

Kelly Cable

J.T. lost control a little bit toward the end, but he battled all day, especially with the cold. And the 10 strikeouts was especially good for the defense, keeping the ball out of play.

Joe Siciliano

If we get a kid to finish with 50 strikeouts, I would be thrilled. Our goal we set for our pitchers is to try to get 10 ground-outs a game and so far we have been coming close.

Mark Grove

As far as pitching goes, it was pretty even. Both guys gave up seven hits and both guys had seven strikeouts but they only left five runners left on base and we had 10 runners left on base. If half of those guys score, it's a tie game and we're right back in it. Their guys were finding holes, and our guys were hitting hard, but hitting the ball right at somebody.

Courtney Harrness

He's been on the shelf, (but) he threw well. It was feast or famine ? 10 strikeouts and five walks ? but overall, he did a good job.

Jeff Finch

Justin wasn't trying to overpower people and get strikeouts. He had to stay within himself and learned that.

Mike Trapasso

It was evident in his first game that Darrell had no fear. He has the pitches that get you ground balls and strikeouts. His fastball command has improved. Now he is getting a strike on the first pitch most of the time. When he gets ahead, a batter is in trouble.

Mike Trapasso

He's given up two hits with two walks and 25 strikeouts in two games. That's pretty impressive from any angle you look at it. He is really throwing the ball well and with a lot of confidence right now.

Scott Gerlach

I know I ended up with some strikeouts tonight, but that first time through, I really needed my defense.

Keegan Linza

Errors and strikeouts at the plate are what hurt us. But they're something we can fix.

Whit Cornell

Their pitchers did a lot more location pitching inside, outside, high, low and that threw us off. They got the strikeouts when they needed them.

Stephanie Reichert

We had a couple of opportunities, but give Kelsey Ruitenberg credit. She made some nice pitches and got a couple of strikeouts when we had a runner on third.

Dennis Hansen

We would like to cut down on the strikeouts, but that will come through facing live pitching. We just didn't put the ball in play when we needed to.

Kris Kalivas

I thought we played a very good game except for there being too many strikeouts and the bunt defense at third. That ended up being the run that hurt us. Eric tried to guide it over to third and we had the lead runner.

Steve Kittrell

It opens your eyes a little bit. You could be having the worst day and go 0 for 4 with four strikeouts and you get these guys out here and see what they have to endure and it's a reality check. They are just out there having fun, and you take a lot from that.

Cody Cipriano

You must give Campbell credit. When we had runners in scoring position, they either made plays or their pitchers came up with strikeouts.

Alan Crawford

This is as rare as you can possibly get when it comes to perfect games, to do it as a staff and with so few strikeouts. I've never coached a perfect game or been a part of one.

Bob Kittle

She battled real well. And she threw the ball well with nine strikeouts.

Ken Dischler

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

Dwight Gooden

I was pleased with the way our team battled and didn't allow the first inning get away from us. The turning point of this game was responding to tie the score in the first inning. We showed good plate discipline and limited our strikeouts while forcing difficult situations on the McNary pitchers.

Chris Vermeer

Glaze has done a nice job. She came on really well at the end last year. Her change-up is out of this world. I don't look for a lot of strikeouts. You just don't want walks, put the ball in play, and our defense is good enough.

Bruce Vandeberg

We do have some depth in the pitching. We need the rest of the team to find their roles, because we know we're not going to get 300 strikeouts from our pitcher this year.

Dave Majewski

Overall we did a pretty decent job today. We played well defensively. Our two errors were throwing errors on relay plays. They were nothing really major. Our pitchers did a nice job. We don't have a pitching staff that will get a lot of strikeouts. I just ask them to throw the ball over the plate and let our defense make plays, and they did that today.

Brian Gruber

When you hit that many long balls, you'll likely win a lot of your games. We need to cut down on our strikeouts, but overall I was pleased with the effort tonight.

Brian Goodman

Pat is doing well and giving us a lot of quality at-bats. He's cut down on his strikeouts quite a bit and he's hitting more line drives. The hard work has him hitting close to .400 this season.

Sean Economou

I think sometimes the voters try to compare us with the starting pitchers. We can't compete with their statistics, their innings or their strikeouts. I think if you compare us against each other, I think you'll see we're all pretty equal.

Bruce Sutter

We hit the ball on the line. And we did the right things. We didn't have too many strikeouts. We put the ball in play, put the pressure on them.

Troy Rogers

It's a different intensity level. Especially off of Cat. I know a lot of people think 'Man, she's already got 2,000 strikeouts...' lets not be a part of that.

Tina Boutelle

Our pitching staff still has to improve, and they know that. If they can get over the hump and make quality pitches, and we can cut our strikeouts down, we'll be in every ball game this weekend.

Tim Walton

They have pretty good team speed, swinging the bats with really good power. They rely on scoring a lot of runs. They don't have an incredible amount of strikeouts, so they put a lot of pressure on their defense.

Karen Johns

It's hard to win when you strike out 12 times. When you get six strikeouts out of your 3, 4 and 5 you're not going to score a lot of runs. It's hard to beat out a strikeout. It's dependent on the catcher missing the ball. They were hitting lasers and we were hitting air.

Denny Throneburg

Brad pitched great for a 10th grader. I wasn't really sure how he would do because I haven't played with him for a while. But he came out, threw strikes and had more strikeouts than I thought he would have and did an excellent job.

Patrick Hallett

We're too anxious right now. We have to cut down on our strikeouts and start putting some pressure on the opponent's defense.

Justin Inskeep

David pitched an excellent game with four called strikeouts.

Denis Uhl

He was ahead of hitters the whole game. He really spotted his fastball well and later got out of trouble with some big strikeouts with his breaking ball.

Mike Godfrey

He pitched great. He had some big strikeouts when he needed them. His command was better today, he had better location. He was able to throw strikes with his curve and his change, whereas in the first game he pretty much relied on his fastball.

Jay Sutton

I thought we pitched much better. Especially with our guys in the middle of the game. (Senior pitcher) J.C. Faircloth in particular, with six strikeouts in two innings ... We put up 14 hits, and with nine runs again, so our guys continue to do a good job offensively.

Chris Finwood

It's always going to be a challenge to keep the strikeouts down with the personnel we have. We're trying to get those numbers down. But when you're scoring the most runs in the National League, I'll take that tradeoff.

Chris Chambliss

She was in control. What can you say, 19 of 21 put outs were strikeouts.

Jeff Shepherd

They're a huge power-hitting team. They have an exceptional number of strikeouts, so they're swinging big.

Karen Johns

But if he's able to consistently wait on the ball and see it a little longer and have a shorter stroke to the ball, the strikeouts can be cut down without losing his great power.

Chris Chambliss

I'm not a guy who's going to burn you with a lot of strikeouts. I'm more of a finesse guy, so I'm looking for the ground balls. And today, my defense worked behind me and did a good job.

Derek Hankins

We hit a few hard right at them. The strikeouts were a lack of discipline on his balls in the dirt. (Justice) understood where the strike zone was and used it. We were too content to argue with the umpire rather than make adjustments.

Pete Southall

He pitched another complete game. He walked only two. He gave up 10 hits but he had nine strikeouts.

Frank Lucero

Beth threw a controlled game today, which allowed for those 10 strikeouts. She found the corner and stuck with it and kept those batters off balance. She walked just two, which was real key in a tight game like that.

Tina Deese

He could have more strikeouts, but he just wants to get you out as quickly as he can. He just quietly goes about his business.

Dennis Luquet

Nate is outstanding. He is a Division I pitcher. He had 13 strikeouts in a game Friday and 13 more today in relief.

Ernie Quatrani

You can't win a ballgame averaging nine strikeouts in the lineup and that's about what we had.

Eric Etchison