Diane Ninemire Quotes (15 Quotes)

Haley is hitting a home run almost every game it seems like. Everyone else was producing this weekend too. I'm very pleased with the fact that different people are coming through at different times.

It's going to be a learning curve. We've got to roll with the punches. We are going to get better and learn from our mistakes, but I think our offense is really sound and we have speed and power. We don't have a lot of flashy players, but we've got a lot of workhorses, and now they have to believe in their roles and stick to our plan.

We've talked about how important it is to stay focused for games during the week. We're going to have to have the same kind of attitude like we did (at the UNLV tournament).

We're going to have to get our bats alive like we did against UNLV. We've got to have the same kind of attitude we did in that game and jump on (Sacramento State) early.

Lauren really showed us glimpses of the pitcher that she can be. If we can expect this kind of performance from now on, it would be huge to know that we have two pitchers capable of throwing against any team in the country.

That was nice to see how we matched up against a top national team that trains from seven in the morning to 11 at night, six days a week. For us to play the way we did is a good sign of how things are going.

Our team is way too good to be having two or three errors in a game. We should have just three or four for an entire tournament. Our goal is always to play errorless softball and I'm hoping that the things we did this week in practice will make that happen.

You couldn't ask for a better scenario. That's what we told the team today, that we needed to capitalize on every opportunity and we just found a way to get the job done.

We didn't shut the door against Sac State when we should have. But Kristina threw very well, and that was big for us.

Kristina did great and our defense was good, but our hitting was just disappointing. We had eight hits but they were scattered through seven innings. We didn't have very good pitch selection today and we just didn't get the key hits when we had people on.

If she can be consistent and eventually get to the point where she can go seven innings if need be, it would be tremendous to have two pitchers capable of throwing against any team in the country. There aren't many teams better than the one she faced (last weekend).

I've challenged the team to make sure in the future when we have leads that we don't let another team back in the game.

This was a great opportunity for our kids to get a new kind of exposure. Some of our kids won't get to play in the Olympics, so it was a really unique chance for us to see how we match up against a top national team.

We'll still be trying to get a feel for things this weekend. We worked on a lot of our communication problems in practice. I think we're getting closer to a starting lineup, but this time we're going to see better competition-we're going to see if we can do the same things we did right last weekend against better teams.

I felt like we came out much more aggressive than we have been at the plate. We were swinging at first pitches in occasions and I thought our offense really started putting it together.