This was our first game, and we had not seen live pitching coming in. I thought as the night went on that we grew in our pitch selection for hitting.

It was time to step up, buckle down and win the game, and the girls did that.

(Free State was) the last team that we lost to and, after that loss, it made us better, and we're hoping for the same type of response out of the girls. I know this group of young ladies, and they will take this as a challenge to channel it in the right direction and get better.

When it comes down to that moment when we play, we have something to prove every game. When it comes to that game, we'll have something to prove, too, and it'll have great meaning to us.

We just couldn't stop the bleeding. We've not had a bad inning, and we had a bad inning. In softball, you just can't allow that to happen.

You can't beat that kind of attitude. It's amazing. They know their role, and they're playing their roles, but can they step up and do other things for us? You bet. People don't know that yet, because they haven't seen much of it. But they will.