It definitely showed the fight in us when we came back that late in the game.

We played well enough to win game one. That's the bottom line. It was very stressful though because we didn't score until the seventh inning.

Casey was exactly the person I wanted to have at the plate in that situation because she does an excellent job of watching the ball she doesn't swing at many bad pitches. She had the opportunity to win the game with one swing.

When a player makes that transition from high school to college, you never know what to expect from them.

One of the things we always talk about is that the game is never over until we say it's over. The team believed that and hung in there and created some breaks that led to the win.

Even though we had to get up at 7:30 in the morning on Saturday to travel to St. Norbert, it really didn't affect our game negatively at all. I just told the team to bring their best and have fun, and they put out a combination of both.