Jim Perrin Quotations

We're just having a snake-bit year. We hit the ball hard, but it's right at them or they make a great defensive play. You can't do anything about that, but I am concerned about the number of runners we're leaving on base.

We're getting better at hitting behind runners and advancing runners. We had more balls hit to the right side today, so I felt better about that, and I'd like to see it more often.

We have to go up there and take care of business. We'll need to go there playing well, even though TSU doesn't have a great conference record. They've played a lot of one- and two-run games, so we can't take them for granted.

I hate having to watch the scoreboard and depend on other teams to lose. This time we can do something about it, and I'm looking forward to that.

I think the freshmen got a wake-up call. They were both excellent high school pitchers and I think will be good college pitchers down the road, but they saw today that one through nine in a lineup can hit at Division I.

I thought we played pretty well. We had a lot of players rise to the occasion and I thought both pitchers threw well today.

Natasha (Anderson) pitched a heck of a game, and Amy (Hale) had a big home run for us. This win was big because Tennessee-Martin, Eastern Illinois and us are fighting for the fifth and sixth spots in the conference tournament, so coming away with the win today for us was a must.

We played a lot of people today. We got to see what some of the younger kids could do in a game situation and see how far along they were.

Evansville is one of the better teams we've faced this season. We knew coming in that Evansville would come out hitting the ball, and Natasha (Anderson) just didn't have her stuff working for her today. With those two combined it made for a long day.

Ashley did a nice job in the second game. She got in trouble a couple of times, but she responded well. The double play was big to get her out of the inning.

That was a big play for us. They had the momentum going their way and the double play swung it back in our direction. It was a real turning point in the game.

It was good to get two wins, no matter how they wound up looking like at the end. We've had a string of games where we've just not gotten the breaks at key times, like the other teams has, so tonight it was good to come away with two wins.

I'm really looking for a big year from Brianna (Venable). Her swing has really improved over the past year, and I think she capable of having a better year than she has had since she's been here, and she had a good career here so far.

In one way I'm glad we're starting to swing the bats better and getting runners on base. Now it's the timely hits we need to get. Once we start getting those to sneak through or fall in we'll be fine.

Amy (Hale) had a real excellent night. She really contributed both with her bat and behind the plate.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being