The conference is open to whoever wants to play really good the last half of the season and win it.

She has been getting more effective lately. We’ve changed the philosophy of how she is pitching, and she is doing much better with it. The walks are way down. She’s very close to the strike...

We’ve been working a lot more on hitting our spots in practice. Not just throwing pitches with big break on it, but hitting the locations. That’s critical.

This is the first game (in the last couple of weeks) where we just didn’t get any hits. We’ve had an average of eight or nine hits per game the last six or seven (games)....

We did them some favors on defense. That’s what happens when you play on your heels instead of on your toes. We made some adjustments. Hopefully, we’ll learn from those adjustments. We’ve got to.

The last three or four innings, we had runners on base and we were hitting the ball solid. We had only one strikeout in the last three or four innings. We were ripping the ball...

That triple was a big, big hit for her. She went with an outside pitch and put it where it had to go. Morgan Parkhurst with two outs (also) had that single up the middle...

Getting beat by East and getting beat by Althoff, that doesn’t set well going into the sectional (seeding) meeting in two weeks. We’re going to have to battle from here.

At the start of the game our bats were asleep, we were asleep. They came out aggressive and we didn’t. That was story of the game. We made mistakes early, and you can’t make mistakes...

Cindy has brilliant moments. She pitched kind of erratic today; she had four walks and wasn’t exactly as good as she wants to be. But she’s a good pitcher, she’s coming around.

She’s very tough, she’s a very competitive pitcher. We were just prepared better in that inning for her. We prepared the whole game for her, but that inning everything kind of fell into place.

They need their focus tuned in every once in a while and that’s what I was trying to do right there — get them adjusted and focused on what they’ve got to do. They respond...