NCAA Softball Regional Game 3 Quotes

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On the game:

"What a great game, that’s why you play this game. That’s what you play the postseason for. This team did a great job coming back. There was solid defense at the end and these two players (Aimee Minor and Sarah Hyatt), what can you say? They’re copycats."

 

"Momentum-wise, as a team I think we felt pretty solid, but this team knows better than most teams that a 3-0 lead is not good enough. You never know what’s going to happen, especially against a team like Nebraska, who has a lot of heart, has a lot of speed and puts a lot of people on the basepaths.

 

"It’s happened to us time and time again, having a 3-0 lead and losing it, or being down 3-0 and coming back. They’re used to it. They don’t let it phase them. They do a good job just keeping the game planted at 0-0 (in their minds)."

 

Sarah Hyatt

On Nebraska pitcher Ashley Debuhr:

"She is a good pitcher. She hit her spots. Her speed isn’t overpowering, so most of our plans going up there were to look out and she gave us some good pitches to hit. She didn’t pitch out and she hit her spots. I tried to use Aimee (Minor's) momentum that she started."

 

Aimee Minor

On her three-run home run in the sixth inning:

"You don’t really go up there looking for a home run. In that situation I was just looking to get the ball in play and try to get us a chance to score some runs."

 

 

Nebraska Coach Rhonda Revelle

On the physical nature of the game:

"It was really a physical game. It was an out-and-out dogfight."

 

On the home runs hit off of NU pitcher Ashley Debuhr:

"The first home run, it was really a pitcher’s count. We were trying to get the ball up over (the batter’s) head to see if she would chase it, because she has a history of chasing some pitches out of the zone like that. Ashley (DeBuhr) just missed her spot. In the first home run to (Sarah) Hyatt, it was a hitter’s count and a low pitch. She just turned on it and got it. In the later innings, I just think Ashley started to fatigue a little bit. That was more of the story than anything else.

 

On facing the 3-0 deficit:

"We got focused and said, 'Let’s take it one at a time, not try to get it all back at once.' We knew it was early in the ballgame, we still had some time. We were able to take Noble out of the game, who was actually their fresher pitcher. I thought we did a very nice job offensively. Any time you score six runs on that caliber of team, you hope that it would be enough to win.

 

Sheena Lawrick

On taking positives from the loss:

"Losing any one-run game always hurts, but, again, we scored six runs on a good team. I think our offense is starting to come together, and for us that’s a great time. We’ve been looking for it all year, and it’s coming here when we need it the most."