Lori Blade Game Quotations

She had a rough first inning. Hopefully that was just the first game jitters. She settled in after that and threw a real nice game. I was pleased with that and with our defense overall.

Credit Tammy and those Alton kids. They played a great game and had a great game plan. We had some good shots and couldn't get them to go down tonight, but we didn't quit and Anya on the boards was huge.

Defensively, we are staying in the game. We had the one bad game where they pulled two gap shots on us and got two runs.

You're going to have tough shooting nights. But we didn't quit and we got ourselves back in the game and had a chance.

I'm so proud of the kids for their effort. They didn't quit. I told them that the game wasn't over, that we just had to go out and do it. And somehow they did.

We got some timely hitting. Everybody that got a hit later in the game did it with someone on base. We have to keep pushing with those runners in scoring position and the girls did that today.

They're a very good basketball team. We didn't play our best game tonight and they did. So the credit goes to them.