Of the tournament field, they’ve played the most difficult schedule early on, when you look at the teams they’ve played.

He was outstanding. He threw strikes, he forced contact and he was on top of his game. I think we’ll expect more starts out of him before the year’s out.

I thought it was his best outing all year. He has his slider back and he hadn’t had it for weeks. That made all the difference in the world for him.

Our fans will get to see another guy that’s listed among the top few pitchers in college baseball that’s draft-eligible. He’s a guy who’s supposed to have electric stuff.

You go into every series wanting to win the series. But when you win the first two you get greedy and want to go for the sweep. We’re pleased with the outcome as a whole.

The first game was interesting. We had a four-run lead and squandered it, but Daly puts up zeros, Derek gets the big hit and Steven (Wright) closes it. Steven had to get his work in...

While it’s nice to get some national recognition, all that really recognizes is that we got off to a good start our first 14 games and nothing more. Our guys understand that. They’re not going...

It was evident in his first game that Darrell had no fear. He has the pitches that get you ground balls and strikeouts. His fastball command has improved. Now he is getting a strike on...

I’m not particularly happy with the way we’re playing. We had five runs on 11 hits, but we left 12 on base. We have been in cruise control since Western Illinois. We are fortunate to...

He’s got to swing better than he’s swinging, that’s for sure.

We were hitting balls right on the nose early on. It was those instances where you hit ’em right at guys. When you keep hitting balls as hard as we were, it’s just a matter...

Steven was not good. He was up, and you combine that with a very good Arkansas club. You tip your hat to them.

That’s the one fortunate thing. We’re playing at their place and we’re able to make it up.

He is a three-pitch lefty. The two things I’ve always liked about him is he is athletic and he competes. You put those three things together and you get outrageous numbers.

I never like calling a game before the scheduled game time, but this was about as heavy a rain as I’ve seen here. We checked with the weatherman and Doppler radar and we would have...

We had the mercy rule in effect for nine-inning games the whole series. Five games in four days, if either team’s up by 10, why waste pitching for the next couple innings.

We needed Rich to throw that fastball down in the zone better when we have a lead like that late in the game.

Ian Harrington will start one game. After that, it is TBA. I haven’t thought about it yet.

Good players like Matt don’t have two bad years in a row. He really put too much pressure on himself in his draft year.

I talked with Mark on Monday and he said he was fine.

When we’re going good we tend to keep going back to the same place (in this case California Pizza Kitchen) every Friday.

We are fortunate to have the return trip to Louisiana. It’s not ideal, but it’s better to play in sunny, dry weather rather than playing on the sponge we have.

We had a good approach and swung the bats well early in the game. I was concerned in the eighth and ninth when we got a runner to third with one out and couldn’t get...

I just figured sooner or later something would happen. It’s just that you have to keep putting up zeros on the other side against a team that is swinging the bat pretty well. Justin was...

From this point on, and you can talk about taking one game at a time, but you can’t hide from the fact that every weekend game we play carries added significance because they are league...

Just tip your hat to those guys (and) come out and try to win again tomorrow.

We just showed up and that was about it. This team isn’t good enough to just throw their gloves on the field and win. It was our worst effort of the year.

Steve is in a bit of a funk. He can’t get his pitches down and his slider was up. We have some work to do with him.

It was a case of us not showing up. I’ll give credit to their pitcher, but we didn’t show up as a team from the first pitch. We were lifeless. The better team by far...

He’s been the epitome of a team guy.

I probably should have taken Steven out with Jones up there, but you try to get one more out with your best pitcher. That was my mistake.

Landon knows his role and knows he is our catcher of the future. He is a confident kid. He has done a very good job as a freshman.

It’s still snowing. It’s like a blizzard outside. It’s nuts.

I think a lot of (pollsters) are waiting to see what we do this week.

Obviously they are a very good club. They are nationally ranked and have one the top two or three pitchers in the country.

Steven just didn’t have it.

He’s been able to perform like we knew he was capable all along with an injury-free year. Knock on wood.

They’re going to be sorely missed.

We didn’t make the pitches. We didn’t make the plays and we didn’t execute at the end. We had one outburst and that was great, but we just didn’t get it done.

He just didn’t make good pitches, plain and simple.

In the first inning, you could see their approach was to go with the pitch. But when they were doing their damage, they were the same team they’ve always been, which is very aggressive early...

Eli got the big two-out hit to tie the game and for a few innings he is the hero in the dugout. But the tough part of baseball is you are only remembered for what...

We played just well enough to get beat. We gave up crooked numbers in two innings. We just didn’t get it done today.

That’s why I told our guys be happy, but don’t be satisfied. We showed we have plenty of things we need to improve on.

Steven got ahead in the count and forced contact. Everything was good.

You can’t ask for a better game. We executed and played a pretty complete game. We had a good approach at the plate against one of college’s premier pitchers.

He’s better, but looks thinner. But he swung (the bat) well.

We will use as many players as possible. It is fun to play this game, especially with so many new guys. We need a dress rehearsal to make sure everyone knows the game-day routine.

Matt throws a plus slider, but the fastball is his foremost pitch.

Fish didn’t have anything from the start, but it was the right move. If the same situation happens tomorrow, I’ll do it again.