Troy Schaefer Quotations

To our guys credit, they never quit playing and I'm very proud of that.

We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer.

One of our goals is that we want to score first and jump on top and put pressure on other teams to perform. If we do that, we have a chance to be successful.

He had an overall great game defensively. He possibly solidified the left field position for himself.

That was the big turning point of the game. The score was not very indicative of how close the game was. It was an extremely close game. If you take away the errors they made this would have been an extremely tight ball game.

We were very fortunate to come out with a win because (Appleton North is) an exceptional team. Not a bad win for a team predicted to finish ninth.

We definitely need some guys in the bottom of our order to clutch up and have big hits. It's about executing and doing all the littler things. We gotta do that at the bottom half. Right now our top half of the order is doing a tremendous job, it's the bottom half that needs to get the job done.

When you lose a couple and you didn't play your best baseball and the runs aren't coming, sometimes you might be pressing a little bit. But I thought our guys were comfortable. They were taking their hacks up there, being aggressive.

They are a good hitting team, no doubt about it. I thought Ryan had some of his pitches up today early on. But you have to give credit to their team.

Ryan has a huge heart and he's a very competitive person. He pitched on guts today and I'm proud of him.

Our defense made plays. If your defense makes plays, you have a chance to win a lot of ball games.

They had a very good inning and scored a bunch of runs. They are a very good baseball team.

Derek pitched exceptionally well. And Nick did a tremendous job coming in and closing the door.

It was a great time to do it. Derek Hendrickson gave our team a huge lift. He came in and went right at their hitters and kept the game close. Derek did exactly what we asked him to do and then Nick came in and did a great job and held them where they were.

I'm happy that we are 3-0. But there's a lot of work that we need to do. There are a lot of areas where we need to improve. But we are going to be a stronger team as the year progresses.

The great thing about our team is that we can bounce back from anything. We took a look at this game and we already put it behind us. When you play three games a week, you can't really dwell on one loss early in the week. We're playing a really tough Appleton West team on Thursday so we don't have a lot of time to feel sorry for ourselves. We have to be ready to compete right away.