He began to flash that kind of power last year. He's become one of the premier power hitters in the league and he's a threat to get you four bases at any time.

He threw the ball down really good in the sixth and seventh innings. Those were his best innings. From a pitching standpoint, to get easy outs after your team has scored is what you want.

In his last inning out when he was really in the high numbers, we couldn't afford to go to the bullpen that early. It was critical for him to give us that inning.

That's an incredible week, a great four games for him. He has always been a hard worker in our program. Giving a guy that works that hard an honor like this makes him feel that all the hours he has spent are paying off.

As we go forward, we'll play better. We played like a lot of people play the first time out.

You never know how it's going. It seemed like a legitimate gamble.

The big thing was our (Nos.) 7-8-9 hitters really came through. We've been needing production out of the bottom third of the order.

We made about a 48-hour turnaround. We had really played poorly down at Aiken (S.C.) and our kids have got great character. They showed great pride and I thought they made a great rebound here at the end of spring break. When we can come out and sweep a conference series, that's really a testimony to their character.

Yeah, it was pretty exceptional. Since the NCAA era, to my knowledge, there's nothing that approaches that.

I was really pleased with how our team came out extremely focused and with great energy. Our seniors did a great job of getting us ready, and we jumped out of the gates quickly.