Softball Postgame Quotes
Indiana 2, Chattanooga 0
Athens, Ga. - Jack Turner Stadium
March 4, 2011
Head Coach Frank Reed
On the game:
"It was cold. The game started at 39 degrees, misting rain
and the weather stayed the same throughout. Fuzzard pitched a four-hitter
with three errors. It still would have been 1-0 if Stiles was able to get the
throw to third and force the girl out. It hit the girl in the helmet, kicks
over into the dugout and they score. Fuzzard struck out nine, but the other
girl struck out 13. It was basically a pitcher's game with the cold weather.
Nobody really killed it offensively."
On senior Michelle Fuzzard getting back on track:
"She was dominant today. She was off a little bit last
weekend, but she was back to her dominant self. The first run scored off a little ball that
dinked up the middle on an outside pitch. The girl just threw her hands at it.
She pitched awesome today and I wish that we could have backed her up. I feel
bad that we didn't because pitching wasn't the issue. It was putting up
offensive numbers with us only recording two hits."
On what needs to be changed offensively going into tomorrow:
"We need to be more selective. We were swinging at pitches
out of the zone. The kid that pitched was a good pitcher, she transferred from
Fresno State. She did not throw anything that we could not hit, but we just got
ourselves too deep in the count. Then, she was throwing bad pitches for strike
three. We need to make sure that we stay ahead in the count and make positive
swings on the front end."
On the team's morale being down early:
"I never thought that we could not swing our way out of it
because we had the right people up at the right time. You have to be able to
put it on the bat. We still were just unable to lay off bad pitches late in the
count. We talked about it and just did not make the correction."
"With our speed players, the field was slow today. It was
mucky and stuck to your shoes. We did not feel like we could use our speed
players like we wanted to. By virtue of that, they probably pressed a little harder at the plate."
