Not much effort at Willapa Bay with [commercial] nets in there, but [we] sampled Saturday and seven boats had some fish.

Shrimp boats make excellent rescue vehicles.

The big thing was to get runners on base and drive them in. We got a whole team effort and Jose Contreras pitched a great game and kept down their hitters. It's a nice way to start, so now we have to keep this up.

I definitely liked the effort. If our guys compete like that on a nightly basis, I don't know how many games we have left but I know we're going to be in position to win every game.

They like to run and they put a lot of effort into it.

I thought our effort, when the chips were down, was 10 times better this year than last year. In the end, they made a few more plays than we did.