NCAA Baseball Tuscaloosa Super Regional, Alabama Quotes
6/8/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
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2006 NCAA Tuscaloosa Super Regional |
NCAA Baseball ?? Tuscaloosa Super Regional
Alabama Quotes
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Head Coach Jim Wells
“We’re excited to be in a Super Regional. We haven’t been in one since 1999. We prepared well this week; about as well as you can for a guy who throws 96 mph with a good slider. We’re ready to play. We did that last week and I feel like we’ll do that this week.”
On facing UNC’s pitching staff
“First thing you have to do is see the ball and then we’ll tell our guys to stride early because good hitters stride early. We had some good success against David Price where we were just trying to time a fastball and when we had advantage counts hone in on a pitch. It’s good to have that experience against him and he is a similar type pitcher to what we’ll see this weekend.”
Emeel Salem, CF
“I consider myself as somewhat of a spark plug. When I get on base the guys behind me usually take care of the rest. My part is kind of easy. I just try to get on base and let the rest take care of itself.”
Wade LeBlanc, P
“The only thing we can do is pitch our game. We can’t worry about what guys are doing on the other side. We hope that our guys can go out there and put some runs up on the board, but we can’t worry about what they are doing. All we can do is pitch our games and do our part to keep it close.”
Tommy Hunter, P
“It’s always fun when you have someone next to you who everyone considers to be very good. They have a lot more to live up to than we do. We can just go out there and worry about having fun.”
Kody Valverde, C
“My approach this weekend is to shorten my swing a little bit. They are obviously good pitchers. Andrew Miller doesn’t give up many extra base hits so you have to work the count and if you get your pitch you can’t miss it.”
