We had a few guys hurt early in the season when we were playing the tough out-of-section schedule that we always play, but we've been fairly healthy lately.

It's probably a tricky one for Freddy because it's really his constituents that are the most hurt by a fare hike.

It really hurt us not having Gina Oaks in there. It made some difference in our rotation, and she always gets the bat on the ball [at No. 2 in the order].

I think they've gotten too far away from having managers make decisions. I'm not criticizing commissioners. I'm just critiquing their platform for decision-making.

There are still a lot of narrow fields out there. It's a completely different game when you have to play on a football field and we have to be able to adapt to that. If you want to win, you have to learn to deal with any situation.

We don't like to play a deep sweeper like some teams. We like to step up our players to keep it tight in the midfield. It's something I've picked up coaching at higher levels.