Wayne Richardson Quotations

(Monday) night we struggled real bad without Josh Smith in the lineup, but we stick him back in there and we saw exactly what he can do and what he means to our team. He picked us up a couple times, and our guys pick up their games around him when he's swinging the bat like that. I was real pleased to see him back in there helping our team.

He just looked like he was lost, he had a blank look on his face, he was dirty, he acted like he didn't know where he was at or where he was going so, when they come in like that, we help them the best we can so.

Reece worked a little bit today on the side, and his arm feels real good. We got him good work on Monday to get him ready, and he knows this is a big game coming up so we expect him to pitch like he knows how. He'll be up against a good, hard-throwing arm with whoever Benton goes with, but we've got confidence in our guy.

We knew Andy Ferguson had beaten us last year at Benton, so we knew what type of challenge we were up against. We didn't knock the cover off the ball but we didn't make mistakes and hung in there and came out on top when it counted.

I knew it was gone when he hit it. I think they were trying to get it in on his hands and it got out over the plate and he got his arms extended. He hit the ball a long way and it was just a great way to win.