You're so much more excited to have a big game, knowing that you need to prepare and then play well. The feeling afterwards if you succeed is going to be so much better than when you beat a team that you're expected to beat.

Our shots weren't falling, and that takes you out of rhythm right there. They got on that big run, and everything went downhill.

The anger and frustration is still as strong as it was right after we lost. We want to go down there and smash them.

I was just excited to get in the game. I don't play that much, and when we face these teams, you always have the varsity players to look up to. They teach me, they talk to me out there. I don't get that nervous because I have good guidance out there.

The spread is a really good play. I knew we had it.

We've been working on hitting everybody hard. That's been our motto for the whole year, just putting it in play, having good at-bats, that sort of stuff. It just came through for us tonight.