I had to be perfect with my pitches. They hit it to the infield and outfield, and the defense took care of it.

You win a state title in Florida and you automatically have that bulls-eye on your chest. Now, if we don't get back and defend our title, the season will be a disappointment.

Whether I'm pitching,or in the outfield, there is a sense that this is a complete team this year. We hit better, we are impressive defensively, and the pitching is solid from top to bottom.

One of our biggest strengths have been defense and I expect it to stay the same this year. We have a team that have been together for a long time. We can rely on our defense to hold even the best teams to low goal totals, but we need to score more, we need to get forward more and get the ball in the net.

Our defense is certainly very different from last year. We couldn't do too many things last year, we had a freshman in the cage who wasn't the kind of athlete that Drew is, so we had to adjust what we did defensively. We can do more things now. We can play some different styles because Drew can make the big save.

Our defense was good. We gotta try to carry it over to the next game. We can still get better, but we're on the right path now.