I want to know what our record is when the opponents score first because we seem to be coming back a lot. That's just going to help us down the road to play tight and win close games.

It's awesome, and we really have three, but you don't know it yet. When Brooke Johnson gets on base, she's fast. ...When you have speed, you make the defense do things they don't want to do.

They (Nelson and Littlejohn) came in playing a game. That helped Stacey stop analyzing every pitch and just throw. She's just living in the moment.

Almost all of Lacy Howard's hits have all been RBI hits. I think she has more RBIs than hits. That's very clutch for us and I am very pleased to get a lift out of her.

We knew if we were going to have a chance against Michigan we were going to have to get some clutch hits. We showed a lot of patience at the plate in the seventh inning and Lindsey Cameron came through with that clutch hit.

This team is starting to believe in themselves a little bit.

We don't pay attention to anything like that. All we're looking to do is to improve every single day and that's all I can ask for as a coach.

We won't know the true ramifications of a quality schedule like this until the end of the year when it comes selection time. That's what our goal is. We don't care about wins and losses.

We were struggling. It was easy to see that their pitcher was doing a great job. It looked like we were guessing a little bit. She was throwing strikes, and we're looking for balls. She's throwing balls, and we're looking for strikes.

We played good defense, and that's the name of the game. You have to do a good job limiting opponents to just three outs and fight through adversity, and we did that tonight.