John Hepperle Quotations

When we did hit the ball, we hit it right at them. They didn't make a lot of errors and they threw the ball well.

She pitched well. She's a dominant pitcher. Basically we couldn't make any solid contact.

Morris threw very hard and it took us a while to try and catch up to her. Their hitting was better than ours today, but defensively, we played much better than we did in Colorado and that was encouraging to me.

What impressed me most is that we didn't stop competing. When we play the level of competition that we do, it's important for us to keep competing. That's only going to help us when we come to conference play.

Kim pitched well. They started to getting to her later in the game, and we had an error in the third inning. If we can get out of the inning without an error, we give up maybe a couple runs instead of five.

Our defense was much better today than it was against Bethany Lutheran on Wednesday. I told the ladies we'd have to play better defense because Martin Luther is a solid team, and we did. I think that helped us win as well.

We're definitely excited for our season to start. Everybody's itching to get outside and get some games in. We would like to get outside and get more practice in, but the weather just hasn't been nice enough yet. The ground is still frozen, which makes doing anything other than shagging down fly balls pretty hard. Hopefully when we head to Colorado, we'll have nice weather. We're all definitely looking forward to the trip.

We have had a tough schedule these first twelve games, with the level of play we've seen. That's only going to help us get better and be better players come conference time.

When you're not getting base-runners, it makes for a long day in the field at times. I thought Kim and Jen each pitched well, they didn't walk a bunch of hitters. Valley City hit the ball really well. We're looking at trying to get better and playing these teams will help us do that.

We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had today. We had the bases loaded a couple of times and couldn't buy a hit. This whole weekend, we left our bats in Aberdeen.

What it came down to is that we executed early. We were hitting the ball well but right at them. We could have had more runs, but we kept plugging away.

We tried to stay with them. We got to their first couple of pitchers pretty well and had some chances to score more runs.

We got some games in today against good competition. Our fielding was good. We just need to start swinging the bat a little better.

It was one of those things where everything just snowballed on (Martin Luther).