Brian O'Connor Quotations

Richmond is playing very good baseball as of late. There has always been a rivalry between Richmond and Virginia in baseball, and they've had a great baseball program in the last ten years.

Mrs. Kennedy is showing great spirit and pulling everyone together. She is the leader in this household.

Sean Doolittle absolutely set the tone for that game with his performance on the mound on just four days rest. He set the tone for the weekend and fortunately, Casey came in there in the ninth and we found a way to win at the end.

He wants the competition, he wants the best. He wants to play big-time football. He's maybe just a little too small, a little too slow. But I think he'll contribute, maybe on special teams as a freshman. If he makes it, he'll make it by out-working everybody.

Our offensive execution was really good, and I think that was the story of the game.

I think that shows the character of this team that we keep fighting back. That's something that you develop over time.

It is so comfortable when you play at home. You have your own locker room and your own routine. It's tough to play on the road. You win on the road with good pitching, a good starting pitching performance. That is what we did not get last weekend in two out of three games. That's the difference. It allows our young kids to relax a little bit and just play.

Those big-run innings are important to open up leads. We took advantage of our opportunities toward the end of the game and a couple of guys got clutch hits and we were able to have a four-run inning.

Those guys in the bullpen have been worked hard. I was trying to sneak through one more inning with Jacob.

There are a lot of people in the family who don't see each other too often. They're still catching up. A somber mood is going on.

When you lose a tough ballgame like we did on Wednesday, it is important that your senior leadership and your captains step up, and Mike Ballard did that today. He got us started back on the right track.

We didn't necessarily have a strategy. We all had our strengths and weaknesses, but we also had enough faith in one another to let whoever had a gut feeling about the answer go ahead and buzz in.

Coach Anderson's experience as a college coach and a player in collegiate and professional baseball will make him a great addition to our coaching staff, ... On the field, he will be working with our catchers while assisting with the hitters in our program. I am looking forward to his contributions to Cavalier Baseball.

The key to game for me was how Doolittle managed his innings on the mound. He only gave up single runs when BC scored. A couple of those could have very easily gotten out of hand and he didn't let them. That gave us a chance to stay within reach.

Any time in college baseball you can get 30 wins before you have 10 losses, you put yourself in really great position. We need to take advantage of every opportunity we have at home.

The cheapest energy you can buy is energy you don't use.

It's a terrible burden on the poorest, most vulnerable citizens of the state, especially those on fixed income,

It was important to get him back out there and give him a little confidence heading into a key weekend for us.

We just need to continue to progress. The season is still young, we're only 20 percent through the season, but we just need to keep working on our skills so that we are improving up to the start of the ACC season against Georgia Tech.

I don't think Doolittle had his real good fastball that he typically does, and they are a great hitting team. They are hitting .350 for a reason. When Doolittle doesn't have his best stuff and you are on the road against a great opponent it is going to be difficult to win.

He really had a good performance today. But I was hard on Pat today. I am still not completely satisfied with the way he threw. Believe it or not, even though he shut them out. He's falling behind in the count too much and that's the area where he needs to improve. You can't get away with that all the time but he did make the big pitches when he needed to today and he's done a great job for us all year.