Day in and day out, all I can ask them to do is play well. On the days you don't play well, you hope you find a way to win. We just try to avoid giving up the big inning, which we did (against Bishop Eustace).

It's getting a little tougher with the schedule coming up. There are no excuses. These are all quality teams in the Olympic Conference. It makes it tough.

I'm not happy with the outcome today. But baseball's a long season. We certainly didn't expect to go undefeated. We use this as a learning experience and go from there.

It kind of fell apart a little bit. Mistakes defensively, a couple walks, the team capitalizes, and things got away from us a little bit.

Every day you play in the tournament, you have to play extremely hard or you'll be done. Last year Ready taught us that. We have to coach harder, the kids have to play harder and let the chips fall where they may. You can't take a night off in the tournament.

I got it for him, ... thinking that maybe one day he would get to play in this game. ... The kid had a dream, and now he's there.