We hit the ball. We've been off since a week ago Saturday, and we practiced yesterday for the first time, and we're getting the rust off.
We've talked about it. He's been very good to me. He's my best friend.
Magazine did a great job. For a number four seed, that was a pretty good team. I think truthfully our kids come out a little tight and trying a little too hard instead of playing and letting it happen. Once we calmed down and relaxed we started playing a little bit.
Cecil you know, started off the first of the year a little rough but he came straight from basketball and he did the same thing last year. Kind of started out shaky but he ended up being one of our best pitchers if not the best.
Cecil threw a great game today. He's been a little rusty, but he did a great job today.
Frazier hit a home run, but we came back and matched it up. Anytime they score and you can come back and match it, it lets you know the kids are focused on what they need to be doing.
Hunter did a really good job. Sometimes he's doing so well and he kind of coasts and he starts just throwing instead of pitching. After (Frazier) hit the home run, I think he turned loose a bit more. Sometimes, things like that need to happen to him to keep him focused.
I thought they were ready to play, but after he smashed that pitch, it just picked them up. Hitting is contagious. The whole year, we score on some hits and the others catch on. I hope it stays like that.
We don't want to lose any more games. We lost the first one and the last one last year.
We finally decided to play. Those first three innings, we were as flat as a pancake. It was a hot day. I was hot just sitting in the dugout. I think it took us a while to shake the heat off.
We have to make sure we're right. You lose one now, and you're done.
Travis did a great. I was worried about him, since he caught that first game in the heat. I asked him to go home, get cooled down, and come back to pitch.
We are different than last year. We don't have a big home run hitter. We still run the bases well. Last year the guys worked hard, but they didn't know how good they could be. This year they knew there were some high expectations.
We didn't deserve to win. We didn't play hard enough to win. This team is living on last year and until we find our own identity we are probably going to take a few more losses.
West Fork got up on us early in the first, and that's typical of us and them. They're going to battle us every step. I was kind of worried about how we'd do, but we came back and put four on the board. When we're responding, that helps.
We came back through the order, and we started hitting it again. Dustin set the tone, and it was contagious; everybody started hitting it.
We spend some time in practice just reading the ball in the dirt, and moving up. We've got to stay focused, and do what we do and we'll be OK.
There won't be many changes at all. We'll do whatever the kids are capable of doing.
Sometimes kids don't handle change well. When they saw who was starting (Curry), our team just relaxed and went through the motions.
The more he pitches the better he is. If he has a very long lay-off, it takes him a while to get back into the rhythm, so we throw him as much as possible. He's a rhythm man. ... today, he threw pretty good.
As long as we can run, I'll take pass balls or balls in the dirt. We spend time in practice working on reading the ball in the dirt and moving up, today we had some kids do that.
It puts a little fear in you. It's crappy to host the state tournament and not play in it.
It's supposed to rain all day Saturday. The chances of us playing this weekend are looking pretty dim.
I've got three I will throw at any time. They all three throw pretty hard.
I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success and I am excited.
In the first two innings they were going a great job of keeping us off-balance and mixing it up. We came back through the order and started picking it up a little bit. Dustin set the tone and it was sort of contagious and everybody started hitting it.
The first three innings, both ways, took 15 or 20 minutes. It was just one, two, three for both sides. Finally, in the bottom of the fourth we got a base hit, then after that we started getting a few more and just kind picked here and there and added one or two each inning.
