Round Rock: Wrap and Quotes
By Glenn Tanner - June 01, 2007
Tomorrow's schedule first...
Noon -- Wake Forest-Brown; Wake was dominated today but you have to figure that they'll play better. Brown burned through their one playoff-caliber pitcher tonight, so I'd expect Wake to send the Bears home. You can bet, though, that any spectators wearing burnt orange will be rooting for the Ivy Leaguers, because they really won some hearts tonight.
6 p.m. -- Irvine-Texas; Irvine played about as flawlessly as I've ever seen a team play in their 13-0 win over Wake. Seriously, that team could have beaten any team in the country today. "Awesome" is an overused word, but the Anteaters were absolutely awesome today. Plus, they have ace Scott Gorgen ready for tomorrow. Texas came out flat tonight and really got tested by Brown. You can argue that the tight game helped the Longhorns, but burning through lefty reliever Joseph Krebs for 3.1 innings didn't help them. The key to tomorrow's game may be Texas catcher Preston Clark's injury. Backup Brett Lewis played well tonight behind the dish, but with 130 stolen bases this season, Irvine's a whole 'nother story.
Quotes from game two below...
"We had a real good ballgame going for seven innings or so. Our guy Jeff pitched as tough as he's pitched this year. There are no easy outs in the Texas lineup, and every time he needed to make a big pitch with runners on base, he did it. He left everything he had on the field." -- Brown coach Marek Drabinski
"I made a good pitch to Russell, and I have to tip my hat to him. I'm not sure how he could do that." -- Jeff Dietz on Kyle Russell's homer
"It is definitely a good experience and we look forward to games like this. We played South Carolina in a similar atmosphere, and that is what baseball is all about. That is why we played hard all year, and it is a great experience for the team. At no point in the game did we feel like we were out, even if we had only 50 fans at the game compared to the thousands of Texas fans. That was great though. I'd rather be the underdog, and we never felt like we were out of the game even in the last inning. We left it out there, so there is nothing much you can do." -- Brown SS Matt Nuzzo
"I was impressed with Brown's pitching and the way (Jeff Dietz) went after the zone and kept going and also the way they continued to rally with two strikes and two outs to take the lead. I thought both of those things were impressive efforts. They played a flawless game up until toward the end." -- Texas coach Augie Garrido
"Every day is a new day. If you look at today, we really battled through a lot of things. Their pitcher was very aggressive and very good. They put up a great rally to take the lead. You see what happens to players when they start to try too hard. It took the home run for us to separate a little bit." -- Garrido
Posted by Glenn Tanner at 11:59 PM on June 01, 2007
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