Jodi Hermanek Quotes (8 Quotes)

I think we're ready to go. We've spent the last 15 games getting a consistent lineup, and our pitching has been very good. The defense has been good, now we need to get the offense on the same level, and I think coming home will help that. We're all glad to be home.

The biggest key for us was being able to come back when we were behind, and not becoming comfortable once we got ahead. We took advantage of our chances and we answered back every time we needed to all weekend.

Offensively I was proud of the girls, as well as the pitching staff goes. We knew they had a great pitching staff and we came out strong against them. We don't have just a couple of kids we count on everyone can contribute. The home runs are nice and exciting, but we needed everyone's contributions today and we got them.

It's just one of those things where we've just got a powerful team. It just shows we can hit the ball over the fence and don't need the wind to assist us.

Our defense has got to come out stronger and we have to make the plays we know we can make. We didn't do our job today and we know it, and it's sitting on our shoulders to come back and get two wins tomorrow.

We had 10 hits to their six in the second game, and there's no reason we should end up with a score like that with those numbers. We can't expect our pitching to carry us through these games with the support they got.

These are the kids I'm going to depend on to win the conference, and, whether we're up or down, we're going with those kids. The way they came out in that last game after trailing so far - I think that says a lot about our confidence right now and the team's attitude.

Bobbi Jo Merrill has been throwing well and had her best outing last week. Corie Jensen has put in some good innings, and Amy Sauer will be just fine. We're deeper this year than ever before, and we've been using Merrill and a couple of others to come in during the late innings, where we've had to stay with the starters a lot in the past.