I thought Faulkner established himself as a legitimate ace. It was our first time out and we had some errors, but the kids battled back. I'm pretty happy with the way we hung tough. This is a senior-laden team and I have a lot of kids with character.

We're competing the whole game. We're not having multiple errors in a row. We're spreading them out. We're not having that one horrible inning like we had a lot last year. We're still making some silly errors that we don't need to make. But we're getting better, no doubt about that.

We could very well be 3-1. With a couple of breaks or avoiding some costly errors, we could be off to a strong start.

No errors. That's what you want to see, particularly this early in the season. I thought we could have scored a few more runs, but we let a couple of opportunities slip through our fingers. Still, it was a solid showing.

We're right there. I don't think we played a very good game. Errors. We were a little young (with three freshman starters) early. But we came back, we fought back. I was proud of the way we fought back.

I'm not afraid to tell anyone I'm very demanding. I'll accept physical errors, but mental errors are what I'm trying to eliminate. When you're dealing with freshmen and sophomores, there's a big step.