It's such a thrill to do as well as we did at a national competition. It took a lot of determination and hard work, but in the end everyone just did their part and did it well.

I had to go out there and leave it all on the field. It has been (an intense) competition. There are a lot of guys who are hungry here, including myself. I'm sure it (was) a tough decision on the coaches.

It's definitely going to help. Playing against them, it just makes us better. Playing against better competition, we lost, but there'll be another team like that, and we'll be experienced enough to beat them.

We are still in the middle of the competition.

It was just a great competition that I had with Roman. It's always great to beat the king,

Todd brings a veteran presence to the team and he'll be one of the catchers in the competition for the backup spot behind Mike Matheny.