Jesse Benavidez Quotations

We've seen each other once and you can't assume both pitchers are going to have the same games they did last time. I think both of us are going to play more small ball than usual.

I felt like we just didn't play as well as we could. Conrad threw that one bad pitch on that double, but he still threw a great game.

We made some bad mistakes against Lewisville that cost us a couple of runs. (Flynn) threw well enough to win that game. He threw only 68 pitches in seven innings. That's an outstanding performance.

I thought we might have a tough time with the wind blowing like it was. It helped dry off the field after the sun came out so it worked out for us.

Playing with the wind blowing out we knew anything hit to the left side would be hard to handle. I decided we weren't going to have a lot of signals and just take advantage of the situation by swinging away.

We needed breaks. That's part of the game. Once we got that that lead run in we got some more breaks after that and those extra runs are always nice.

We've been coming from behind all year. We thought it might be that way with Hale throwing because he gave us such a hard time last year.

This was a big deal for a lot of the kids to get a chance to play. I just thought these kids would compete a little better than they did. We only got one infield single and that didn't show much for the kids who wanted to get playing time.

We just need to go ahead and approach everybody like they're coming after us because they will be.

Sometimes when he have our No. 1 guy going on the mound that doesn't mean we're always going to win because we don't always give him support. Today we gave it to Conrad.

This game today was more important than the next two games. You can't go out and lose a game you expect to win, and if you get up early you can't let up.

It's a new group and we've just got to get the kids to get used to their roles and each other.

It's what we've been expecting we can do. We have a great hitting team. It was just a matter of putting the ball in play.

I'm going to have to start making some decisions right now about where I'm gong to put some guys who are going to be playing the rest of the time. The tournaments are to get kids a lot of at-bats. You find out who needs some work and who belongs in there.

He threw right at 105 pitches. But he didn't want to come out. He wanted to finish it up. I thought he had a really good game.

You come off a long trip where you don't get to take grounders or get any time in the batting cages and you're going to come out a little flat. I think playing all of these next three days are going to help us.

The guys who did real well for us are the guys who will be pitching in district. I more or less know who's going to be playing at each spot and where I might be switching some kids out.

You want to be in the win column to start the second half of district and we're in a good position to take care of business. It's going to be a tough game at Odessa High and we're expecting that.