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.

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

We won all three phases of the game —offense, defense and special teams.

Their offense is much better than their defense. We didn't want to let them in our zone. Our best defense was a good offense. We turned their 'D' and made it work hard. They weren't getting out of their zone very easily.

Everybody knows me for my defense, so I just kept focused.