Ray Olive Quotations

If it's Sylva-Bay, I heard they've got two top-quality pitchers. If we play like we're capable of playing for seven innings, we can play with anybody. We play well, have one bad inning that always snowballs and that's the thing that drives me crazy. It's a mental thing. We've got to figure how to put that aside and start fresh.

Just put in there we are a poorly coached team. A very poorly coached team. That ought to do it.

We played a team which was up against the wall, and it was a close ball game.

We made good contact. We were aggressive, and we put a bunch of balls in play. We seemed to be able to find the gaps tonight, and we put a lot of pressure on their defense.

We still have to win one more game to win the district championship.

The thing that concerns me the most is that we haven't played a game since Tuesday of last week. I've instilled in the boys that we face what's in front of us. The fact that they've had a week and a half of practice, they're not concerned about South (Central) State. One of our goals was to win district. Our next goal is not attainable until this one's done.

That's where we had our inning where we made four of our eight errors. (Joseph) Landry pitched the sixth and seventh and we made three more errors. You can't win ball games like that.

It looked like we were stuck in mud. We just had to play through it. We figured since we couldn't shoot we'd make our defense our offense. We put the pressure on them, and we got some easy buckets that fell. You've got those nights where nothing seems to fall. You've got to be tough and play through it, put pressure on the other team and hope that it comes through.

I played them five minutes in the third quarter (Friday) night that swung the momentum our way. They're fast, and they hustle. I used them in the last of the third quarter, and that swung the momentum our way. They caused several turnovers and kept Lamar from scoring.