I told them that I had faith in them. I said that you guys can do this if we can just get some people on base, and we did. I didn't expect what happened.

He's hitting everything on the screws. Even his outs are spectacular.

It was nice to see [that kind of offense]. Whenever you can play long ball, it takes pressure off your defense. I can't remember taking two from Cary in my five years [as head or assistant coach] at Jacobs.

He has a great arm, good speed and he seemed to make solid contact every single time. Usually with sophomores, they can struggle big-time with varsity pitching, but he's hitting shots.

If I threw him 15 balls, he hit 14 of them solid. He was right on.

I think she misrepresented our position at City Council, and I think that there was not a very good faith effort at working with the communities. Gail has said since then that she has learned from that.