Brooks had to shake off some rust in the first game. He hadn’t had a start in a long time because of the weather, but he settled in.

We think we are as solid a team as we have ever been. The question is can we produce power numbers and increase slugging percentage. If we do that, we will do well.

Jordan’s our ace. He makes great pitch calls. He doesn’t try to do too much. (Coaches) are always afraid of the pitch count after 60. Jordan seems to get stronger.

We did some things better (Friday). We just couldn’t seal the deal. In the second half, they changed some things that we had trouble with.

We were very disappointed, especially offensively. We just simply did not hit the ball.

The defense came up big. It is nice to see when you are going through some things on the offense. They have kept up in it.

I think the experience will be huge for us. There is a certain level of comfort you get from being at state tournaments and that should play in our favor.

I think we have the potential to score more runs (than last year). We looked at too many pitches early in the counts (today).

We are fortunate to have so much talent on the mound. It is a luxury. We won’t burn kids out or overuse them.

I think so. We’re basically working with seven or eight kids that we feel are varsity-level pitchers.

We’ve got more and more kids coming around. The kids are hitting the ball hard.

I thought we simply got lucky at times. We were out of position all night.

We’ll rotate eight or nine guys that can start for us. We have tier one pitchers, but then we have a whole slew of sophomores and freshman we can use.

Our goal coming into the game was to get all our pitchers some starting time out on the mound and we got that done.