Tommy Ramos Team Quotations

If you get too emotional, then your team will play with too much emotion and too much of a high. Eventually you have to come down and you may come down too hard. We don't place much too much emphasis on the opponent. We just need to concentrate on how we play. If we take care of our business, everything else will take care of itself.

I'm not going to stress out over it and I'm not going to put more emphasis on wins or losses. I'm just going to focus on getting the team prepared to compete at the highest level they can.

When you play a tight game like that, hopefully you learn from it. We got comfortable, we got relaxed. Instead of going up there and thinking about team swings we were taking individual swings. We weren't really up there with a purpose until they put a little pressure on us.

Right now they're the team to beat. We're picked first in the conference and the rankings are just a big bulls-eye. It gets everybody's attention and helps motivate the teams we're playing. We've got to show up too.

I thought the first game went well. We made some mistakes. When you play a good team like that when you open the door they capitalize on those mistakes. They took advantage of it and got some runs when they needed it. It was a great game.

I thought we got off to a good start against Central but we had an error which really made a big difference in that game. The emotions of that game left us where we couldn't bounce back. Against two top 10 teams in the country you can't afford to have a letdown.

The second game I thought the zone was a little tight for us. If it's a tight zone with a good team like that they're going to capitalize. They're going to put the ball in play and hit it hard. That's kind of what happened.

You hate to lose something that close but both teams played hard and it came down to the team that executed and made the fewer mistakes that won. You enjoy games like that. You want to be on the winning end of it. I told the girls that I wasn't upset over that. We just needed to execute in the second game.