May 21, 2011
Head Coach Eugene Lenti
Opening Statement...
“Obviously you saw a game that was a phenomenal game. It was a pitcher's duel with their one against our two. I don't really know what happened, but we sent the runner who hit the ball, which is our philosophy. With runners on second and third, any ground ball will send us home. That is something we learned from Jay Miller, the former coach at Missouri. We preach to the kids that pitching and defense win games this time of year and you need some timely hitting. I don't know if I can claim this to be timely hitting, but just lucky.”
On his team's defensive abilities...
“This is the best defensive team we have ever had. I think we are fielding over .980, No. 5 in the country. We preach to the athletes to make the routine play; although today we made some special plays, like throwing the kid out at third. We made some great plays all day long and that is one thing we have been preaching to our team. We have been consistent there all year long. They have been playing defense at a major league level for most of the year.”
On coming to Missouri for the third year...
“There is no easy regional. I would rather be here than Tennessee. Every regional is tough, this is not an easy time of year no matter how good you are. It's the anything-can-happen time of year. It's how you played this weekend.”
CF Alex Morrocan
On her game-winning run...
“I knew Eugene was going to send the runner on first, and I saw the catcher take about five steps up. I had just rounded third base so I had a good jump and I just went, hoping that I made it there.”
On her mentality during the play...
“Coach always tells us to keep going no matter what, so I was just looking to score. ”
P Bree Brown
On throwing off the Tiger batters..
“Most of my pitching has a lot of spin so if a batter is going to mis-hit it at any point, it will pop up.”
On coming in relief..
“Mine and Lindsey Dean 's pitching is kind of opposite. I pitch a lot of up and she pitches a lot of down. When I come in I just know that they haven't seen anything that I have and all I want to do is shut them down.”