E. Hicks Game Quotations

Right now, I think we played terrible in the fourth quarter. I'm disappointed we finished the game that way.

He was suspended for tonight's game for conduct detrimental to the team,

Stephen is a three-year starter, and he provides us a lot of leadership and poise. He's elevated his game to a new level.

I think that we showed the Dominican crowd a very good game in a great tournament with the best teams of the continent.

We have tremendous respect for the player and what he has meant to the game of baseball.

We can't wait until the bottom half of the seventh inning of the second game to realize what we have to do to hit the ball.

We couldn't have played defense any better. Just one play, other than that Amber Hanson had just an excellent game at shortstop, just an excellent game. I couldn't ask any more of her. She checked runners and got us out of situations.

We're just taking the rotation game by game at this point. We'll see how it goes.

We came out and played horrible the other day. It's our first game back, whether it's them or DePaul, whatever, we need to come out and establish ourselves.

We let that first run score to get an out at second base. That's how the game is played. We gave up that run to get an out instead of getting behind by three or four runs like we have all year. We gave up a run, and then we came back and did what we had to do. The girls have to stay focused like this all the time.

We were bigger and stronger than them inside. We really controlled the boards and controlled the game from the inside out.

We're just waiting. We have tremendous respect for the player and what he has meant to the game of baseball. We hope he decides to play. Once he's made the decision, he's a player we would have great interest in.

When you first hear about the new guys having to play, it's like, gosh man.' But then you know it's just part of the game, because the game is a business. We've been competing since the first day. It's nothing new.

We did a lot of good things today. The problem is, we have to do that against all teams. The girls played well and did a good job. We didn't have any errors. We did what we had to do, and we played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

The passing game feeds off the running game and vice versa,

I never expected the game to go like this. I thought that we played well in spurts.

It was really a great game between two great teams and it's too bad anybody had to lose. We both put it out there on the field, but we just didn't make enough plays.