18 Quotes by Jim Perrin

We're just having a snake-bit year. We hit the ball hard, but it's right at them or they make a great defensive play. You can't do anything about that, but I am concerned about the number of runners we're leaving on base.

We're getting better at hitting behind runners and advancing runners. We had more balls hit to the right side today, so I felt better about that, and I'd like to see it more often.

We have to go up there and take care of business. We'll need to go there playing well, even though TSU doesn't have a great conference record. They've played a lot of one- and two-run games, so we can't take them for granted.

I hate having to watch the scoreboard and depend on other teams to lose. This time we can do something about it, and I'm looking forward to that.

I think the freshmen got a wake-up call. They were both excellent high school pitchers and I think will be good college pitchers down the road, but they saw today that one through nine in a lineup can hit at Division I.

I thought we played pretty well. We had a lot of players rise to the occasion and I thought both pitchers threw well today.

Natasha (Anderson) pitched a heck of a game, and Amy (Hale) had a big home run for us. This win was big because Tennessee-Martin, Eastern Illinois and us are fighting for the fifth and sixth spots in the conference tournament, so coming away with the win today for us was a must.

We played a lot of people today. We got to see what some of the younger kids could do in a game situation and see how far along they were.

Evansville is one of the better teams we've faced this season. We knew coming in that Evansville would come out hitting the ball, and Natasha (Anderson) just didn't have her stuff working for her today. With those two combined it made for a long day.