Ron Allen Game Quotations

Our kids battled back. I give credit where credit's due, but you won't win many games by giving up seven runs in the first two innings, and leaving 13 runners on base.

You don't have time to do that. If you feel sorry for yourself, that's another game you're going to lose. You can't take losses that hard or you get yourself in a hole and before you know it you've lost five of your last six. Then you have a reason to feel sorry for yourself.

We always enjoy the games between us. We always have great contests. Larry and I have been best friends for 20 seasons out here.

He kept us in the game and gave us a chance. That's all you can ask of a relief pitcher.

We just wanted our players to focus on our game and play more efficiently on offense and defense. I think we were able to do that.

We had some big hits. Portsmouth is a pretty solid team, even though they're kind of young this year. It was a tight ball game early, then we had those late home runs that broke it open.

Everybody in that locker room wearing a Cincinnati jersey wants to win. There's not a lot of teams still playing now, not a lot of teams still practicing. It's not ideally where we want to be, but if we play our game the way we should, we can win the NIT.