Brian Cleary Quotes (12 Quotes)

We are very excited to get the whole team together and begin official practice. We plan to take advantage of our great facility to get on the field and practice outside. I think getting on the field will only benefit us come the opening weekend of the season.

Early on it felt like one of those days where it would be tough to score. There wasn't a whole lot of energy given the weather, and we overcame what was not a crisp pitching performance.

For us to get a sweep heading into exams is obviously a good thing. I thought our guys did a good job of playing hard all weekend, despite the weather related issues. I am glad that we were able to finish off the sweep to head into the week.

I am incredibly pleased with our performance this weekend. We knew going in this was a big weekend and our guys responded with a sweep. Today we just kept battling back and found a way to secure the sweep. This was just a great weekend of baseball.

I thought we did a pretty good job after waiting around all day to play. We came out and played hard and even though we didn't swing the bats as well as I would have liked, I was pleased with our effort. Once again, we pitched well and played good defense and battled at the plate to score runs to win the game.

I am extremely disappointed to lose, but it seemed to be a given with the way we played. I thought we just had a poor performance, especially on the mound. It's difficult to win when you pitch the way that we did.

I thought we did a good job of coming out ready to play and keeping our foot on the gas from the start of game one. Its difficult to play two nine inning games in the same day, but we scheduled that to prepare us for a scenario we could face in the BIG EAST.

I thought Glen (Simon) did another fantastic job on the mound and really kept us in the game. Jack (Nelson) also gave us a really great performance at the plate. I was pleased that our hitters kept focused at the plate and I thought we played really hard right from the start.

We are obviously excited to get our second straight sweep and I am pleased we have been able to string together some wins. I think we swung the bats well towards the end of the game, but we need to continue to improve in some areas.

He does not need much motivation, he is motivated by his desire to excel.

I thought we pitched well today and Blevins gave us his best outing of the year. We didn't swing the bats particularly well, but we got timely hits when we needed them. Of course, we are glad to win another series.

We've been fortunate in that we have relied on big innings to pull out some wins. It's a little dangerous to live like that, but it's worked out lately. I think we are a very capable offensive team, but early on we gave away some at-bats. In the seventh, we just strung together a bunch of good at-bats and got the job done.