Craig Faulkner Quotations

We've been trying to get him to stay back and get him to go the other way with two strikes and (Tuesday night) he did it twice. Once the second baseman (caught) it when he hit it hard and the other time he got a hit.

Our philosophy is to work hard and that's all we know how to do. We played Venice baseball like it's supposed to be played.

I take my hat off to Erickson. He's a polished high school pitcher who has command of three pitches and moves the ball in and out. It's impressive.

We played the way Venice High is supposed to play. Even if we would have lost tonight, I still would have been proud of the way we played.

We want to be the top seed. Manatee has three losses in the district, but they could lose again. We have a very tough week coming up -- three games on the road all against good teams. If we play well, we'll have a chance.

We've got a really tough road but if we win those three I think we can get the No. 1 seed in the district.

We'll see what kind of team we have.

We started last Friday against Southeast with four district games in a row. We had to win them all to be the No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the district. The guys really hit the ball well (Tuesday night) and backed up our pitching.

Cook is flat out a winner at whatever he does.

When you face good pitching, when you get to the district tournament, it can help.

We've got to capitalize on those situations when we're in charge. We need to have better at-bats.

Struble has a good breaking ball and good change-up. You can call it anytime and he is always around the plate with his three pitches.

It's respectable. But we tried to win them all.

It's great to see Anderson really step up. He throws strikes and is sneaky fast and hits his spots.

I wanted us to stay back and go the other way, put the ball in play especially with the tough wind blowing straight in.

Their pitcher was great. We didn't make the adjustments on his curve.

It was a positive weekend. We learned a lot about our players.

It was nice to beat a ranked team on senior night. We played good baseball.

It's tough to let a game get away like this. You can't have four errors. Errors always come back to get you.

It was a spring break atmosphere and it's tougher to get focused. We didn't sit back and wait for the pitches. We were swinging at bad pitches on 2-0 counts instead of letting them go.

This was the first night I thought Lucas was 100 percent back. Having Wean back at third means we don't have people out of position. Injuries have definitely hurt us this season.