Eric Etchison Quotations

We've spent a lot of time outside this year but we didn't show it tonight. We just weren't ready to play physically or mentally.

Peters is leading the team in RBIs. He's doing a great job seeing the ball, and again, he's a freshman who's getting a lot of at-bats and gaining a lot of confidence and he came through today.

I expect that we'll be ready to play when we go to Oglethorpe on Tuesday.

We talked a lot with our pitchers about working down the zone. You don't have to make THE pitch but you have to make a good pitch and trust your defense.

I think it showed their pitcher was going to be around the zone and our guys took advantage of that. Nate just did a good job driving it out of the ball park.

I thought the other team did a good job executing with runners in scoring position. They scored a lot of their runs with two outs and we didn't.

Our offense got complacent. We got up by four or five runs and the offense just went stagnant.

Nathan is our number one shortstop. He's one of the best shortstops we've had here. He does a great job of getting to the ball quickly and he's got a strong arm. He proves you don't have to be in the lineup because of your offensive capability. He's just a solid defensive player.

I was proud to see us come together and put up two strong rallies like that.

You can analyze or over-analyze the statistics. We're averaging like six or seven runs a ball game and we feel our offense is kind of where it needs to be. Defensively, we've had a good rotation the last 10 games, so I look for a solid defense behind them. We're trying to put the pitching together.

We'll come back and play it again tomorrow. I'm proud of the boys for battling back, but once again I want to get over that hump and beat somebody.

Dr. Morgan will evaluate his finger and we'll hope he's back and that he's going to be back effective for us pitching and in center field. We just have to wait for the evaluation from the doctor.

During the recruiting process, that (Matt) may be as far as I can go in my vocabulary.

Of those four runs, I think three were walks. Basically, we didn't have good control in the late innings and that's why we had the merry-go-round on the mound.

I told the guys just to keep this game fun.

Once again I don't think we played bad enough to lose. We got beat today. And there is a big difference. Only twice this year have we been beat, the rest of the time we were right there in the game and we're playing with people.

I knew he was coming. I just wanted to direct him where to slide to. We had a wild-pitch read from our guy on second base, and I saw it was going to be close and I wanted him to get down to the outside and he did.

Cain had his second good start for us today.

He threw a complete game win and you can't ask anymore for a freshman. Cain did a wonderful job of keeping the hitters off balance and getting ahead in the count It was his second good performance his first one was in relief against Oglethorpe.

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

A.J. is a good pitcher. He's not as experienced as the other pitchers are, but he'll give us a good five to seven innings. We have a couple other freshmen in line (for relief) that I feel can do the job and take care of what they need to so we can save some of our pitching for the rest of the weekend.