Chase didn't have his stuff today. But he still came out and competed. Davis is a good team, that's why they're in first place.

It was a wild game with a ton of distractions, but our guys really hung in there and competed. The whole coaching staff is proud of how these guys have really learned how to fight and believe that they can get the job done.

(Azevedo) didn't have his stuff today but he just kept kind of competing.

Anything higher would be quite a stretch in my mind. Essex has a fantastic track record, and most observers view them as a great management team, value-added group.

Ryan gets a little upset when he doesn't get a hit. He's really aggressive. He'll simmer down though, he'll be fine on Thursday.

At the beginning of the year we couldn't get the big hit. Now, we've gotten some big hits and it's freed some guys up. We've tried to get them to be aggressive and attack early but they haven't done it. Today, it was nice to jump out and score some runs early instead of playing from behind.

We understand our underdog role and hopefully our players will relish the fact that other schools in our league and section see us as underdogs.

We haven't had any steam all year. That was our best performance by far all season. All year long we've had error-filled games. Our last two games we played much better defense. We're competing better. Nothing but a positive coming out of this game. We competed the most (of any game) and forced the other team to play.

Our guys are competing now, but we just need to get over the hump. We still need to play a bit cleaner and find a way to get our offense rolling.

Last week we did not swing the bat well. Today we were having good at-bats. From a coaching standpoint we're swinging a lot better.