Brian Beckwith Quotations

We were controlling the ball really well. That enabled me to get so many opportunities to my hitters. When we have ball control like that, I can go anywhere, and it makes it tough for the opposing team. They have to worry about five guys hitting at all times.

When you can pass, the rest falls into place.

Obviously, it hurts a lot. He's battling to get past that. It's going to be tough the first couple of practices to get used to having a hurt finger. He's not going to give up. He's always playing hard. Whether that thing is falling off, he'll still play, even if he has to tape it on.

He's a good hitter because he runs his route hard, no matter where he is. He calls for the ball loud. It's tough not to give someone like him the ball.

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

There are so many different scenarios that could play out that we can't be thinking about that. We have to focus on Friday and then on Saturday.

I was just trying to move the ball around as usual and keep them guessing. I saw that opening down the middle and decided to exploit it until they stopped it.

I saw the opening, took advantage of it and had no problem making that choice.

We got going there at the end of the first game and started cutting down on our errors. Then our control of the pace of the game really showed in the second and third games.

We got caught in a few mental errors. We were a little anxious after a long, restful weekend. We can improve on that, as well as working harder on our serves.

We were going off based on what we knew (from the summer) and grapevine stuff. We had to make in-game adjustments.

Today was bittersweet, without a doubt. I'd much rather have a win than first-team anything.

We had no film (of the Ramblers) and no scouting report. We're fortunate to squeak out one.

We definitely didn't make a very good emotional investment. We didn't put ourselves on the line like we usually do. We thought we could walk through this one, and obviously we couldn't.

We really came out and focused on our serving and took them out of their game right away.

When you have friends on the other side, you get more fired up for the games. There's no problem in feeding a guy who has that little extra in him.

We wanted to send a message that we could do the same thing to them that they did to us. We did not want it to go four. This is a very big win for us. Irvine is a very, very good team and they crushed us Wednesday.

We tried to keep them guessing. With these back-to-back matches, the scouting can be so right on sometimes. They almost know where I'm going to set before I do. I took the liberty of scouting myself and changing my game. Not so much to the point where my offense was different, but to where my situational thinking was different. A hitter has to make the right shots, and I have to make the right decisions.

Being taller, I can contact the ball at its highest point and he can hit it at its highest point. It makes our offense that much more fluid.

There's added incentive, playing SC, with so many past schoolmates and teammates playing for them. It will be fun to play against them.

It puts everyone on that level playing field. It doesn't matter how many years you've been here or how many games you've started. The cauldron affects everyone. That's why it's so great. It makes it equal.

The age experience is a huge thing. A lot of their players come back (from missions) a lot bigger and more mature.

It took a while to get the car started. But it got way better, and after that, it made it easier for us to get into the system.

They changed their lineup, but that's not a problem as long as we take care of the ball on our side. They came out tough and played hard. We played harder.

Their defense is incredible. It just beats down on your ego when balls keep on coming back over and over. I give props to them.

I hope Friday and Saturday night we get tons of UH students there. Hopefully these two promotions will get a lot of students in the games and it gets rowdy.

He's feeling better. I expect him to be ready.

I don't want to take anything away from Pacific, but I was pretty much tossing it up.