I think I embrace that. Since I pitched last year, I'm more of a veteran than just a sophomore this year.

I think we'll do really well, there's a couple of strong teams in the district, but anyone can be beat on any given day.

I've very excited with that this year, the defense is much stronger than last year. I think we lost a lot of ball games due to defense and errors.

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

I don't think we panicked [in the second half], we just weren't getting good shots. We're not used to being in that situation, and we didn't know what to do.

It's hard to place blame on anybody when you're racing in a pack that is that close with the speeds those guys are running out there. For the most part they all do a pretty good job. All it takes is one little slip-up by somebody or by two or three people, you're going to have a heck of a crash. It's just unfortunate.