I told the kids going into the sixth, ' You got to wreck it here. She's got a perfect game right now. There hasn't been any to reach [base].

The kids are resilient. This is a tough rivalry … this is a big thing. There was a lot of guts, and we weren't going to allow a close one go by again. I had no doubt in the dugout that we would score to win.

A bunch of practice isn't going to be the deciding factor. Our kids need to go home, enjoy the time, go to church and pray and come back on Monday ready to play ball.

My kids just stepped it up and finally shot the ball well. The biggest thing is that they just played hard.

I'd like to provide a place where the kids feel like it is their place.

Mandy has done a good job of being near the strike zone. She was throwing good enough pitches to get them to chase. Now, the detriment to us is when we have good opportunities to get outs, we hang a ball and they get a get a base hit and score two. That happened a couple of times tonight.