Todd Genke Quotes (19 Quotes)

(Beck's) one of the toughest guys in the conference. We ran up his pitch count to over 100 and had some opportunities, but our defense let us down.

I give a ton of credit to our guys for coming back. We were down early and we could've folded the tents, but we didn't allow that to happen.

We're not afraid to kick a couple of balls around early in games and get ourselves in a hole. We take so much pride in our defense, but for some reason, we're snake-bitten when we play at home.

It was kind of nice to see (Jake) get in a little trouble early. He had guys on base, but I wanted to see how he'd respond to that because he hasn't had that happen to him. But he's a bulldog. He goes out there, gives you everything he's got every time and he's a hard guy to take out of the game. I was surprised that I had to go get him, but he was out of gas.

Greg is a move-in from Oregon who can pitch and play third base. Plus, he's a left-handed hitter.

Jake threw a great game. He tired a bit in the fifth and lost a little of his control, but in four starts he still hasn't allowed a run.

We preach to our kids about the importance of scoring early and relying on our pitching. We were able to do that today, but we didn't add runs like I would have liked.

Mike has all of the tools.

We work on that a lot, especially early on, being able to throw your breaking ball early in the count and get ahead of the hitters without them seeing his fastball first.

We know that we're not going to score a lot of runs so we're doing the little things at this point. We're playing defense, we're pitching the ball well and we're just doing good things.

Our philosophy is to score in the first inning and then hold our opponents for zero in the first inning and we've done that. We did that a couple of (games) ago and came out on the short end so I really want us to get up early in the game. That puts the pressure on the opposition and we've done that, but we didn't add on like I was hoping we would.

Jake did a phenomenal job. Got ahead of hitters, made them hit his pitches and our defense played very well behind him typical early-season game where pitchers are dominant. We were very fortunate to get this win.

I just had a funny feeling with the wind blowing in, with the two pitchers on the mound, that that could have been our one and only opportunity. It wasn't our only, but it was one that we should have taken advantage of.

He's a good defender on the mound. He made a couple of nice plays against Larkin and we're going to need to do that because we're not going to score a lot of runs.

They're good heady players. You can put them in a lot of different places. They responded well to varsity ball over the summer.

We played great defense. It's cold (out here), but our kids defended very well. We threw the ball to the right base and we caught the ball when we needed to. I'm excited about that.

That was one of the best plays I've seen an outfielder make. He took a possible double away from them.

Jeff Holm did a great job. We really don't know what we're going to get from him (sometimes), but he came in (this game) and just did a fantastic job. With the meat of their order up and getting Nick Herrera, one of the best hitters in the area, to pop out was great. That gave us momentum.

He gets ahead of hitters, makes them hit his pitches and our defense plays very well behind him.