Mike Gill Quotations

What he did great after that first inning was get the first and second guy out before giving up that hit. He's really emerged as the ace, and we're going to keep riding him.

Like I always say, defense wins games. Today once we settled down, we made a lot of big plays.

She's kind of spearheaded a real nice, balanced attack for us. Without that front-runner for us, it hurt a little bit. I think it stunned us for a couple of minutes.

She hit two threes that really hurt us.

Money, the root of all evil... but the cure for all sadness.

I wish we could have put them away a little earlier, but Santa Fe put up a fight, man. We never broke their spirit. They just kept coming at us with a lot of heart.

Overall, I was pleased with our effort today. We handled ourselves well on both sides of the ball.

That was just a great play. If he doesn't make that throw, who knows what happens.

We played hard. In the first game we really crushed the ball. But, give them (Capital) credit. Their pitcher (Levi Hannon) settled down over the last five innings, and they came back with their bats.

We came out with our best offensive output of the year in the first quarter. We had a 12-0 run to open the game. From that point on it was a tight game. You've got to give a lot of credit to the kids from Odessa. They battled right to the end.

We feel like you did the right thing in appointing a planning commission.

At one point in the season we lost five straight games. I think at that point most people in the section thought we were done. We didn't pack it in. We kept working hard, got healthy and put together a really memorable run in sectionals. We equaled the most wins our program has ever had in sectionals.

I've never seen a game like this. Well, not since I was like 10.

Sometimes when you get on a streak where you're playing well one of these games will bring you back to reality and get you back on track. I sure hope that's the case, because we did not look ready to play today.

It was a big win for us. Here's a team we got beat by 20 last time. On senior night - it will be the last time we'll be at home - it was a big win. The kids played great.

I'm not really frustrated so much as I am concerned. Overall, we're OK, but there are some holes that we need to fix.

I'm not happy at all. All that was was a win, nothing more. I was very disappointed.

In districts it's going to come down to defense, it's as simple as that. We definitely have some chinks in our armor that we have to get fixed, but you have to remember that even though we're 17 games into the season, these are still high school kids and we still have to coach. You just hope they get it soon.

If you look at the season stats, we're about even (with opponents) in hits, but in earned runs we've actually allowed fewer. But we are way up in errors.

I looked him in the eye and asked if he wanted it, and without hesitation he said yes. He wanted it, and he took it, and as teammates they backed him up.

The hardest part is leaving my family behind for so long,

The confidence these guys have is huge. You start to get a few wins under your belt, then that's what the players expect to do every time out.