Bobby Pierce Quotes (26 Quotes)

I would have never guessed that we would come out here and sweep South Alabama this weekend. But what a way to get us off and rolling in a new conference. We have been telling our guys all year that they are good, but it is another thing altogether to sweep a three-game series from South Alabama.

We've been telling our team for four years that if they'd stick with the plan, we'll be able to play at a high level of baseball. I guess after beating Alabama and Auburn in a week's time, they're finally beginning to believe what we've been saying is the truth.

You don't want them to be around a bunch of people because then you'll have a whole team infected. But they should be all right.

He's a guy that will find a way to get the job done. He's an established hitter, but he'll walk or get hit by a pitch. Any number of things that winning players do, that defines Ben Woods.

I don't know whether to be happy or sad. This was an ugly, ugly game. The positive is that we continued to hit the ball well, but we didn't play very good defense, and we didn't pitch very well early in the game.

It's something that will be good for Ozark and good for Troy. Hopefully we can reach out to the fan base there.

I'd say it's a pretty big loss for us. He was well on his way back to pitching for us again.

I would like to play a game or two in Montgomery, like we used to do. It's a beautiful ballpark and, if they'll have us, we'd like to play there at least once a year.

Joe didn't have very good stuff tonight, and that is not terribly unusual in a second start. After making a strong start last week, I thought he looked a little tired and you have to be able to battle through that.

He just wasn't quite sharp enough with his curve. His breaking ball wasn't quick enough at times. When your starter gets in trouble like that, you want him to fight through it, but I probably waited too long to pull him.

It was good to see our team start to hit the ball up and down the lineup. We knew coming into this series that we would have to score some runs, and this was a good start to the weekend.

We got ourselves into some trouble early in the game, but once again these kids showed that they never give up. We have had several of these kinds of games over the last couple of weeks, and this team believes it is going to win every time.

Very few times do you get to get as many people quality at-bats in a game situation as we have gotten in the last two days. The negatives are you don't want your team to play a sloppy side of baseball and take things for granted, and we've done that as well.

The walks and hit batsmen continued to keep him in trouble. He was not as sharp as he has been in his first two games, but he didn't throw that bad. You can't put it all on him.

I am sure the other coaches in the league had a hard time deciding where to place our players on the All-Conference team, just as I did placing theirs.

Any time they can get to Best (they're in a good position). He is outstanding.

We don't want to be content with winning the series, but we're certainly satisfied with what we've done. They showed a lot of courage coming back in a game they could have easily let get away.

I thought it was very special. I talked to his wife, mother-in-law and see the baby. I thought it was great and Ben had a good day and kept his streak alive. All and all, it was a very good day for us.

When the door opened, they took advantage like good hitting teams do. The teams we play have been able to do that, and we haven't.

It's a game of inches. The inches just haven't gone our way. I don't think we've played exceptionally well, but we've done enough at times.

I like the way he handled the whole thing. I want him to be a part of the program and to go out as a senior the right way. I hope he makes us proud.

We took him on every trip because of what he meant to us. We knew he wasn't going to play, but he made us that much better.

Our offense has really come around. We're swinging the bats well and getting good at-bats. When we get runs on, we're driving them in.

Everything we could have wanted out of Clegg, we got. I wish we could have gotten him the win, but we didn't play good enough defense to hold it.

I hope they enjoyed our baseball team. We had a very nice clinic for young kids that went well. It was a good day for our program and a good day hopefully for the city of Ozark.

We had some good two-strike and two-out at-bats.