We don’t want to be content with winning the series, but we’re certainly satisfied with what we’ve done. They showed a lot of courage coming back in a game they could have easily let get...

Mike was not sharp. He missed some spots on critical counts. He can pitch better, and he will.

When the season started, (King) was the No. 3 hitter, and I’ve always been one to have my best hitter in the No. 3 hole. But Edgar Ramirez started off hot, so I moved him...

You don’t want them to be around a bunch of people because then you’ll have a whole team infected. But they should be all right.

I don’t know whether to be happy or sad. This was an ugly, ugly game. The positive is that we continued to hit the ball well, but we didn’t play very good defense, and we...

He’s a guy that knows the strike zone well. We’ll be giving him more opportunities.

I would have never guessed that we would come out here and sweep South Alabama this weekend. But what a way to get us off and rolling in a new conference. We have been telling...

We’ve been telling our team for four years that if they’d stick with the plan, we’ll be able to play at a high level of baseball. I guess after beating Alabama and Auburn in a...

Joe didn’t have very good stuff tonight, and that is not terribly unusual in a second start. After making a strong start last week, I thought he looked a little tired and you have to...

The walks and hit batsmen continued to keep him in trouble. He was not as sharp as he has been in his first two games, but he didn’t throw that bad. You can’t put it...

I like the way he handled the whole thing. I want him to be a part of the program and to go out as a senior the right way. I hope he makes us proud.

I thought it was very special. I talked to his wife, mother-in-law and see the baby. I thought it was great and Ben had a good day and kept his streak alive. All and all,...

We had some good two-strike and two-out at-bats.

We had a couple of balls where if they get down early instead of being caught, it’s a different game. We’ve got to find a way to get some runs early and get momentum back...

It’s a game of inches. The inches just haven’t gone our way. I don’t think we’ve played exceptionally well, but we’ve done enough at times.

It’s something that will be good for Ozark and good for Troy. Hopefully we can reach out to the fan base there.

Our offense has really come around. We’re swinging the bats well and getting good at-bats. When we get runs on, we’re driving them in.

He just wasn’t quite sharp enough with his curve. His breaking ball wasn’t quick enough at times. When your starter gets in trouble like that, you want him to fight through it, but I probably...

Any time they can get to Best (they’re in a good position). He is outstanding.

Everything we could have wanted out of Clegg, we got. I wish we could have gotten him the win, but we didn’t play good enough defense to hold it.

That’s a game he’ll remember. He was the big difference tonight.

I hope they enjoyed our baseball team. We had a very nice clinic for young kids that went well. It was a good day for our program and a good day hopefully for the city...

When the door opened, they took advantage like good hitting teams do. The teams we play have been able to do that, and we haven’t.

Those are the guys that are throwing well. That’s about all we’ve used consistently so far.

I’d say it’s a pretty big loss for us. He was well on his way back to pitching for us again.

We’re trying to get another bat or two going. We’re trying to solidify things and this early, it doesn’t exactly have to be fully solidified, but we’re not as far as I’d like to be.

We got ourselves into some trouble early in the game, but once again these kids showed that they never give up. We have had several of these kinds of games over the last couple of...

It was good to see our team start to hit the ball up and down the lineup. We knew coming into this series that we would have to score some runs, and this was a...

I am sure the other coaches in the league had a hard time deciding where to place our players on the All-Conference team, just as I did placing theirs.

It is a game of inches, but we just couldn’t get one to go our way tonight. Still, I am proud of our group. They played hard tonight and showed that they are learning how...

We started slow again tonight, and I don’t like that very much. It seems that our intensity doesn’t pick up until our backs are to the wall, but this team continues to respond when that...

We took him on every trip because of what he meant to us. We knew he wasn’t going to play, but he made us that much better.

I would like to play a game or two in Montgomery, like we used to do. It’s a beautiful ballpark and, if they’ll have us, we’d like to play there at least once a year.

He’s a guy that will find a way to get the job done. He’s an established hitter, but he’ll walk or get hit by a pitch. Any number of things that winning players do, that...

I never put much stock in preseason polls, especially when it is the first season in a new conference. I appreciate the respect shown our program by the other coaches in the league, but everyone...

Very few times do you get to get as many people quality at-bats in a game situation as we have gotten in the last two days. The negatives are you don’t want your team to...

That takes someone from being a young man to being a man. The guys who I’ve had that have had a kid or been married or both have handled it well, and Ben seems to...