Lori Alexander

Hayley had two strikes on her, and I told her she needed to just center up. And she ended up read more

Hayley had two strikes on her, and I told her she needed to just center up. And she ended up with a double.

I told her we just needed a ball into the outfield.

I told her we just needed a ball into the outfield.

After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts read more

After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts and us not being able to get six outs without giving up some runs. We had been practicing kind of sluggish, and that carries over. But we bounced back Thursday and started hitting the ball. It was a good mental victory.

We didn't hit as well, but then again the weather changed a lot from our 3 p.m. game to our read more

We didn't hit as well, but then again the weather changed a lot from our 3 p.m. game to our 7:30 p.m. game. We still executed well by putting the bunt down and moving runners over. So that's getting better. And our defense played well behind Erica. So hopefully those will carry over.

She's going to be vital to us. She kept us in games last year, and she should have had more read more

She's going to be vital to us. She kept us in games last year, and she should have had more wins. But we just couldn't give it to her. Our problem was that we couldn't put the nail in the coffin because we couldn't score enough runs.