19 Quotes by Craig Nicholson

We did some good things, particularly offensively. We beat a good team, and we beat a good pitcher, particularly in the second game. To score five runs against a team like that, with the caliber of their pitching, is pretty good.

We didn't put any extra pressure on ourselves because we were coming off a loss, but it's nice to play well and get that taste out of your mouth as soon as you can.

We didn't play with any energy the first game, and one bad inning killed us.

We didn't do a good job of making adjustments at the plate.

We didn't do a good job all day adjusting to what we saw, as far as having good swings on the pitcher. We were swinging at bad pitches and taking good pitches.

Defensively, we're solid. As long as our pitchers throw strikes and keep the ball in the yard, we're going to make a lot of plays.

It's not like we got outplayed. We just didn't take advantage when we had opportunities. We had some terrible at-bats in key spots.

There's very little that separates the three teams that are going to be playing in the regional. Very little. If we play the way we did in (Tuesday's) first game, we'll give ourselves an opportunity to win. But if we don't take advantage of our opportunities or have one game where we don't play well, we're going to get beat. It's that simple.

I don't why we struggled offensively. Maybe we were a little rusty. We hadn't played in five days, and at this point in the year, we're not used to not playing for five days.