Texas v. BYU Postgame Quotes

May 21, 2010

BYU

Head Coach Gordon Eakin
Opening statement: It's a great feeling to win and it's a terrific feeling to beat a very good Texas team. I thought we battled really well. Several times we could have given up and just given them the game, but as we've done all year long, we fought and turned things to our favor this time. I'm proud of them.

On the way freshman Hannah Howell pitched: That was big for Hannah to do what she did being a freshman that lived two hours from here watching the Texas program as she grew up. It was a big stage for her and she did a great job for us. She is capable of pitching better than she did today.

On the importance of not having to play again today: For us, being mountain people, it's huge to get out of the heat. Being able to go back and rest, and to not have our pitching staff throw another game in this heat, is huge.

3B Angeline Quiocho
On her grand slam and errors in the field: The girls did a good job of getting on base and I thought I should do my job in scoring them. As for the defense, it was ugly. Fortunately our pitchers and our hitters came through.

2B Kristin Delahoussaye
On Blaire Luna coming back in to pitch later in the game: Once you've seen her so many times, you just go up there thinking about what she did to you before and get the pitch that you know she's going to give to you and just try to drive it in the gap.

TEXAS

Head Coach Connie Clark
Opening statement: It was a tough battle. It's hard to come out on the losing side of that, but it was a great battle and I think you have got to give credit to BYU and how they continued to battle and play hard. We talked in the locker room about how we can't hold our heads down too long and we just need to get zeroed in on who we are going to play next. We talked about the fact that we are going to have to do it the hard way and that we just need to keep our heads up and get back to it.

On the decision to put P Blaire Luna back in the game: Blaire's our ace and that's something that we've talked about down the stretch. There's going to be opportunities in the postseason where we're going to ride her as long as we can.

On whether the foul ball out at the end of the game should have been caught: Absolutely not. If it's foul, you let it drop and you take your chances with your pitcher.

C Amy Hook
On whether they thought at any moment that they had the game won: I don't think so. Both sides kept punching back and forth. On offense we had to stay pretty confident that we could score, but on defense we needed to be more confident to hold them off the bases. I don't think anybody throughout the entire game thought that the game was over at any point.

SS Loryn Johnson
On their mindset going into the rest of the tournament: We have a great team, and I think with leadership we can take care of these things ourselves and find a way to battle back. It's a good advantage to be at home.

The University of Texas at Austin Athletics

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