Mike Shimek Quotations

I'd like to think the players listened to me when I told them we weren't out of it. I told them we weren't going to leave this stadium today without a win.

He had all three of his pitches working and had some key strikeouts with runners on base. He pitched a whale of a game.

St. Anthony is a strong rivalry game for us. We're going to have to be on our toes. It was 1-0 in the first game and now we're going to their field.

We have the potential to play some good defense. Our pitching is getting better each game, but I would like to see some more offensive production.

When you're playing for a championship, it's always going to be a close game. The plan for us was to stay relaxed and if the chips are down, know we can come back. That's what we did.

We played well in spots. But a good hitting team takes advantage of mistakes by pitchers. We lost to a good-hitting ball team today.

We're going to give our pitchers some extended innings. That is going to be a need when district rolls around.

Ross Knowland came in both games for us and threw some strikes.

You're playing ball in the middle of February, so you can't ask for much out of the weather. I'm just looking forward to spending some time at the ballpark.

You take the experience from one game and take it to the next. You take what you can get. Luckily we got to save our pitching in this game.

I'm really looking for a couple of the other pitchers to step up. You want to have at least three solid starters that can take you deep into a game.

I'm more concerned about how we're going to play than who we're going to play. We're going to use this level of competition to get to know ourselves as a team.

It's nice to win with a different look. We mostly wanted to split the pitching tonight. We wanted to make sure that we have our arms available for the tournament.

It was good to see Daniel get his breaking pitches under control again.

Games like this happen when pitching gets depleted.

You've got to play a full ballgame. Some little things hurt us in the beginning, but we didn't give up.

It wasn't the cleanest game. But we managed to struggle through it and come out all right.

We certainly hit the ball well enough to score today.

It's about to get fast and furious for us. We've got some tough tournaments coming up and we're going to learn a lot about ourselves in the first three weeks of this season.