That a story of our season. We've just lose some games we could have won. Iowa Western has more talent. We just have to get over the hump.

It's been a great rivalry. We've had some great talent and great games over the years, and it's usually a packed house every time we play. I just hope we can keep it close.

You could see the talent was there. I wouldn't say I thought we were going to win 20 games for the next four years, but I knew we'd have some success.

It is encouraging to play with the top of the conference. Last year, at our place, Iowa Western won three of the four games by the 10-run rule.

I've never seen a game like that. We've been struggling with our pitching, but not like that.

It's a lot of pressure in these games. Really for me, the hardest thing was that I couldn't pitch going through that mentally, wishing that some of that could have been on me.