I personally don’t think it could have went to a better candidate.

It’s like I told the guys, I’m not very smart so the only thing I know to do is work hard when things don’t go right. That’s what we’re going to do.

I would say, that certainly, this was all of a sudden. I would say there was some concern. I think they realize where this program is at, at this moment, and they’re ready to tackle...

We had a lot of production at the top of the order. At the seventh inning we were looking and we had eleven hits at the top of our order. That’s really good to see.

In this game, it’s hard to shut out anybody. So many things happen with an aluminum bat. You have to give credit where credit is due, our pitchers and defense. I think we’ve really played...

We’ll just pick up the pieces. We won’t dwell on this one for a long time. We’ve got to play a whole lot better and our players know that. I’ll probably have to say very...

Any good coach has to have the team behind them.

It was a great call. It was a line drive right at the right fielder. He came up and made a great throw. You can’t get thrown out right there, especially not with a hitter...

If we can win every series, we’ll have a good season.

I just thought he elevated some balls early in the game. I didn’t think he had bad stuff at all. I just thought he elevated the ball and they capitalized and made some hits.

I assume if I do a good job, I’ll get an opportunity. I think coach Holland would take my resume.

For the people in the stands, it had to be a good game to watch. Fortunately we seem to be coming out on the good end of it.

The first sweep of the year is awful nice. Hopefully, this will get rid of the Sunday jinx that we had early in the year. I’m just really proud of the club and the way...

Dustin has what I call the X-factor. If he doesn’t go out there with great stuff and I don’t think he went out there as sharp as he had been but he’s going to compete...

Every job that I have taken, my goal has not been to see where I was going, but to work as hard as I could and let the chips fall where they may. And that...

Every day in this game anything can happen. That’s one of the lessons I’ll talk to our players about. You can’t take for granted anything. On any given day, anybody can beat anybody.

We just didn’t string anything together. They got a big hit at a big time and that was the difference in the ballgame.

In this game, it’s hard to shutout anybody. So many things happen with an aluminum bat. You have to give credit where credit is due, our pitchers and defense. I think we’ve really played well...

The key is to slow it down and not get in such a hurry. (The season opener) will be here quick, but the key for us coaches is to slow it down and have a...

We just didn’t string anything together offensively. If you look at the difference in our hit total from (Sunday) to (Saturday), it was only three. But there wasn’t any consistency. I tip my hat to...

I was joking with (Gary Overton) a while ago that maybe we’ll just skip Sunday and just play on Monday.

We felt like someone had to step up and give us a shot in the arm and we didn’t care who it was.

When he got behind, he seemed to do a really good job of making quality pitches. I think that this was the thing, If he found himself in a little bit of a jam, he...

It’s probably the most humbling and uplifting experience you can have. First to be humbled by where he’s at. Then be uplifted by how he’s handled it.

I’m kind of glad after what happened that we have a mid-week game. I think if you’re a competitor, you have a burning desire to jump right back out and compete again.

It’s a lot of fun to watch Jake Smith when he’s on your team in the dugout, I can tell you that. It wouldn’t be a whole lot of fun to be in the other...

I thought the key was he was just a little late getting out of his glove. Mechanically, he was leaving the ball up. I didn’t want him to get off to a bad start. Dustin...

It’s been a great day. Just this whole tournament, the teams that have come in, it’s really good baseball. With coach LeClair being here and what he’s meant to our program, it’s just a great...

I think it’s about creating pressure. When you can get a bunt down in a good situation in the right location against a team defensively, now you’ve created where the team’s got to make that...

There’s nobody on this team that I pull harder for than Adam Witter. He works hard and good things deserve to come to him. I just felt like he was going to do something good...

Wins like this help your character. It makes us believe that when we’re down, we can come back and beat anybody.

I felt like he was laboring and that’s when guys get hurt.

It was great that we had the opportunity to get those young guys in there. I think the key even from the beginning of the game was all of our hard hit balls were backside....

I just told him to settle in because I thought he was rushing it a little bit. Once he got out of the second, he cruised pretty much.

I though the key point in the game was Scott Andrews coming in first and third and Duke with a 2-1 lead and getting out of that inning without them scoring a run.

I’m not really disappointed in our effort. We had some great swings, but (Roemer) made some great pitches. You’ve got to tip your hat to him. He came out and had command of all three...

It’s got to be a lack of focus early in the game. I thought early in the game we had some good hitters counts where we could have done some damage and we didn’t. We...

We created some pressure in other innings, but we just didn’t cash in on them. At the end of the game, we got more than they did and that’s all that counts.

I’m not a big self-promoter. I’d prefer to emphasize our club. I don’t think that billboard is going to get us any wins come February.

I thought we had better looks at the plate. But you’ve got to give them credit. They made some plays on some balls that were hit hard.

The first goal, and I think we’ve accomplished that, is to get the (players) to believe in me. I definitely feel I have their support.

I’ve been around a while so I’ve seen plenty of close games. I hate it that we tried to make it that interesting.

Especially when it’s a head hitting a neck, you thank the Lord that they’re both fine, able to stay in the game first and nothing serious.

In two weeks, we’re going to be in Houston playing Rice. It was good that we were able to come out here and play an opponent like Cal State Fullerton. We think that should really...

I’ve seen him when he’s been on top of his game. He’s still got a ways to go, but I saw signs of an old Brody Taylor, which will be good for the Pirates.

It’s going to be kind of neat to get into that mid-week role of games and get our kids in the swing of things. We’ll approach it like how we play games on Friday, a...