They are not the most powerful pitchers, but they are doing their job. Defensively, we have been making the plays. That is what we are stressing with them. We want them to make the routine plays and help our pitching out.

I wasn't used to it when I started coaching. You hear all this singing, and I'm thinking, 'Where is all this coming from?' You never get used to it. I have nightmares about it. But I think it's a way to keep everybody positive. The girls are always upbeat.

The last two games we went up there swinging the bats. Today we seemed to take a lot more pitches. It just wasn't our day.

We got to pretty much every chance we had. In the playoffs [you can't] make an error. Don't give [the other team] a chance.

I keep telling them that we are flying under the radar like we did [in 2002]. I said, 'let's do our job and it may take a while.' Our whole goal is to be good at the end.

To me it really wasn't that big of a deal.