Margo Jonker Quotations

The plan for the year is to have (senior Jessica) Garvin start off with three or four good innings and have Pettit come in. We need our pitchers to come out and throw as well as they can.

Obviously it's nice, but I've been fortunate to be in an environment that allows me to succeed. It's about building relationships and I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by some great people and great players.

Pettit was great. I thought Jill did a nice job. Our pitchers did a great job.

Christa got ahead of her batters and had the ball moving. She pitched an outstanding ball game. I'm very excited for her performance.

Kent State is coming from behind and scoring a lot of runs. They are playing confidently. It should be a challenging weekend.

I thought we did a better job adjusting to her pitching (Sunday). Saturday she totally had our number.

I think we got a little frustrated and didn't relax and just hit. We just didn't get the key hits when we needed them.

That was a great swing by Crews. I thought we were going to get right back into the game after that. It seemed building from that, we just weren't energized.

We are beating ourselves. We're giving them too much, giving them too many opportunities. We need to make them earn their way on base.

We played extremely poor in Saturday's game. Defensively, offensively, the whole game was poorly played.

Finishing under .500 isn't by any means a successful season. We want to get into the MAC Tournament. To do that, we'll have to get it together this weekend.

Bowling Green plays with a great deal of confidence. They are a feisty team that always believes they are going to win. They're an excellent ball team.

At that point, I thought we were going to get back into it. That was an awesome hit.

The second game we hit extremely well. Pitching and hitting and with that combination you'll win some games.

These next two weeks are key if we want to get into the (MAC) tournament. We need to begin that focus this weekend.

Successful pitching is reflected in the won-loss column. If our pitching staff performs well, our team as a whole will do well. Pitching is very important in the game of fast-pitch softball.

It's all about Bowling Green and Toledo this weekend. It's important that we return home in a good position. These Mid-American Conference games are very crucial.

It's been a combination of issues for us. A lot of it depends on how we do in the circle, but we also have to play defense and hit. I really don't like (losing) because it's frustrating. But I do think everybody is trying to figure it out.

It's very important that we make a move now. We have to start playing better, although I feel our record would be a lot better if we had got to play all of our games (of which five have been cancelled). We're worried about one game at a time and we just have to have confidence that we can get the job done.

It was great that we came from behind and had some adversity. It was a big win for us.

It was a game of inches and they got the inches. We came away with two losses, but we played really well. If we can compete like this then we'll be in good shape the rest of the season.

In order for us to be effective as a pitching staff, we have to get ahead in the count. We have to make them earn their way to the base. We can't continue to give out free passes.

I felt that this was a key weekend for us. Knowing you can win close games helps the confidence.

You can't give up those things. That is just too many mistakes against a good opponent and we paid for it. Obviously we are disappointed because we had such a gorgeous day and such a good fan turnout but we have to rebound quickly.

All we need to do is play our game. The key for us is to come in with a high amount of positive energy.

The first inning was a key point in the game. But we've had a lot of practice in that scenario.