Keith Kramme Quotations

She had a tremendous second half of the season. For someone who never played in the outfield before she came to college on a regular basis, she has turned into quite the player.

She seems to be completely healed up. She's throwing the ball as hard as I've ever seen her throw. We're very excited to get Brooke back on the field and playing with us at 100 percent.

She's really grown into a very reliable defensive player, first and foremost, but she will come up with as many two-strike hits as anybody else we have on the team.

Kim does everything that we ask her to do. She has the potential to be even better than she was last year.

Her movement was tremendous. She kept them off-balance the entire game.

I thought it was a really good defensive effort. It was a very well-played game by both teams.

I think the biggest factor in that game was that we had three errors that led directly to runs being scored. They were on routine plays and errors on routine plays happen, and it's just unfortunate and it was a situation where we needed to keep the score at three. If you put extra runners on, the possibility is there it is going to bite you and it bit hard tonight.

I think the thing that was the most frustrating for everybody was how flat we were. Our energy level was zero. We were just going through the motions, and that's tough on everybody. It's tough to swallow, just because we're so much better than how we played.

I think we were sort of shell-shocked in the first game. Poole really hurt us in the first two innings. We made mistakes in those innings and you can't do that with a player like her. She'll make you pay.

Both games tonight, we were able to push runs across the plate when they were on base. We got some timely hits.

Rachel buckled down and pitched very well in the game. She had some magic with the bat as well, and found a way to get on base in the seventh. We needed to take advantage and we did.

Anytime you let somebody score with two outs it's disappointing, but to do it because of execution mistakes and errors, it's even more frustrating.

It was just a good, solid effort all around, in the second game especially. We needed this. We needed to put up wins back to back and have consecutive good efforts and we did that.

It'll be interesting to see what the mind-set is of this group. I think it's going to be good, but we won't know until we take the field.

It was a gutsy move. I wasn't sending her by any means, but I had no problem with it. We needed something big to happen and she made the right decision.

As disappointed as Shelby is at not being able to go with us this weekend, I think she fully understands we need her to get healed up. If it means missing the first couple games in order to be ready for the rest of the season, she's ready to do that.

That's something we've been really struggling with early in the season is leaving runners on, and she took care of that.

We want to get better each time out. We have a really good chance at a successful spring break. We play some tough competition and if we can keep playing at this level, especially defensively, we can do that.

This is where I feel confident in the group of kids we have playing. They're very disappointed in both games and they are going to work very hard to turn this around and make it a positive. These are two games that didn't go our way. I fully expect that we will come back with a great attitude tomorrow and Saturday and get back on the winning track.

They're plenty aware of what they're capable of doing and hopefully things will fall into place for us.