Daron Schoenrock Quotes (11 Quotes)

When you put it together like that, this is what happens. There's not a whole lot of times where we've put it together like that in one night. A lot of times we've had to win games with just one or the other going.

Both teams had chances to win. I thought we had more chances in the extra innings, but you have to tip your hat to Houston for executing in the clutch.

Their experience in winning came into play. They expect to win. They are used to winning. But I think the longer our guys play together, it will be an expectation for them, too.

Our kids are aware of where these teams are ranked. But I think this team will show up and play. They are battle-tested.

They are just a tremendous ball club. I was glad we were able to get two freshman pitchers in the game today to face a team like Rice. Hopefully it will make them better down the road.

There's no doubt about it that it should, with the quality pitching we faced and with the environment we played in.

It's going to be another challenge for our guys. Southern Miss is probably the hottest team in the league right now, probably hotter than Rice.

We're going to play in a beautiful park, a pro stadium. It'll be exciting for the players.

I would love to have a couple of pitches, a couple of plays back. We pushed them. We had them on the ropes a couple of times. But there were some plays we needed to make, and we weren't able to.

They've got very good offensive numbers. We're similar clubs in that our strengths are our offenses. It may be one of those weekend series with three (high-scoring) Sunday-type games.

They did a good job of getting the ball in the air on a day when the wind was blowing out. We had a couple of pitches that got away -- a couple we would sure like to have back -- and they just don't miss too many mistake pitches.