Diane Ninemire
Diane Ninemire
Diane Ninemireis an American softball coach. She has been the head coach of the California Golden Bears softball team since 1988. As of the end of April 2015, she ranked ninth all-time in wins in college softball history with a career record of 1,213-578...
against came few gave hung last needed runs
(Lauren) gave up a lot of runs in the last few innings. But she hung in there at the end when she needed to. Her back was against the wall, but she came up with the strikeouts and got us out of it.
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You couldn't ask for a better scenario. That's what we told the team today, that we needed to capitalize on every opportunity and we just found a way to get the job done.
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This was a great opportunity for our kids to get a new kind of exposure. Some of our kids won't get to play in the Olympics, so it was a really unique chance for us to see how we match up against a top national team.
bring definitely difference game ranked teams
We've definitely got to bring our 'A' game this weekend. There's not much difference in the teams we're going to play from here on out. Most of them are ranked in the top-10.
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We should have been out of there in five. We just weren't focused and I was disappointed by the effort. We talked about how important it was to stay focused for games during the week and we just didn't get that kind of effort for whatever reason.
attitude focused games stay talked
We've talked about how important it is to stay focused for games during the week. We're going to have to have the same kind of attitude like we did (at the UNLV tournament).
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We're playing pretty good ball right now. We're fielding around 98 percent and hitting really well. Overall, we're headed in the right direction.
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That was nice to see how we matched up against a top national team that trains from seven in the morning to 11 at night, six days a week. For us to play the way we did is a good sign of how things are going.
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Lauren really showed us glimpses of the pitcher that she can be. If we can expect this kind of performance from now on, it would be huge to know that we have two pitchers capable of throwing against any team in the country.
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Our team is way too good to be having two or three errors in a game. We should have just three or four for an entire tournament. Our goal is always to play errorless softball and I'm hoping that the things we did this week in practice will make that happen.
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Kristina did great and our defense was good, but our hitting was just disappointing. We had eight hits but they were scattered through seven innings. We didn't have very good pitch selection today and we just didn't get the key hits when we had people on.
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I think everything is coming together for us right now. We've got multiple hitters hitting over .400 for us so far. At this point in the season, we're hitting as well as ever.
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I felt like we came out much more aggressive than we have been at the plate. We were swinging at first pitches in occasions and I thought our offense really started putting it together.
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We looked at too many strikes and just didn't have the pitch selection (on Wednesday). Against Sacramento, we've got to swing at our own strikes and not the pitcher's strikes. We've got to be willing to swing the bats. If we do, we'll be fine.