Clearly we're facing two of the top teams in the Big East. We have to bring our 'A' game and be prepared to play some ball.

We preach being ahead in counts. It's frustrating, that every day in practice we hit our spots, then we come out here, and there's no transfer. Some of that is youth, but we have to be able to do it between the white lines.

We had so many opportunities today. And we just pressed at the plate. There were three or four times where we could have broken the game open.

We've talked all year about being consistent. And now they're starting to do that. They're getting ahead in the count more often, and that makes a big difference.

Her pitches were up. We talked about how the ball needed to be down against this club. She wasn't in command of her pitches.

We're not executing under pressure.

Jillian is such a spark plug for us. She brings a lot of energy and confidence to the team.

We're very pleased with our rookies. We graduated seven seniors last year, and we knew heading into the season that some of our freshmen needed to step up.

We had kids ready, but we were hoping she'd settle down and work through things.