Alaina kept us in the game so many times. She, as a freshman, is showing such great maturity and decision making in goal, and we're very happy to have her.

I think that that was a challenge for us mentally but we need to figure out how to deal with those kinds of situations because that's part of the game.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

He's far beyond a lot of us in maturity, and I think that's because of what he's been through.

I think the key for us is maturity. It was a big jump for our freshman going from Pony League to high school baseball. You have a shorter distance between the bases and from the mound to home in Pony. But our young guys did carry a the load for us, or they wouldn't have been there.

They make the decisions. Hopefully, I can make it harder, or make (the decision to promote him) faster.