Mike Candrea
Mike Candrea
Mike Candreais the head softball coach at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He was the head coach of the United States women's national softball team in 2004, when Team USA won a gold medal, and in 2008, bringing home silver...
again enjoying game good looks matter offense playing third time
It looks like she is enjoying the game again and playing with confidence. We know how good she is defensively at third base. It's just a matter of time to get the offense to come around.
games hopefully hoping peter present putting sure
I'm hoping right now, with (former USOC president) Peter Ueberroth strategizing and putting everything in order, that they will try and present the case. Hopefully it will come up for a re-vote or for sure get us back in the games for 2012.
against beat harding remember series
Oh, I remember Tanya Harding from '95. She pitched against us in the World Series and beat us. So I know her.
bats good great hits key looked offensive pitcher runs
It was a great offensive performance. We got some bats unleashed. Overall, I thought offensively we looked really good and got some key hits and put a lot of runs on the board. That's good for the pitcher that's for sure.
call good
It was a good wake-up call for us.
chance program tradition
This is a chance to keep the tradition in our program active.
aggressive compete competing five gave good innings job nice
Offensively we gave away five innings and did not do a good job competing at the plate. We're just not aggressive enough and we're a little too nice to compete at this level.
best continued couple goes good hat next ready stuff
Alicia continued to battle. (She) didn't have her best stuff but that's a good team. They will be ready the next couple of days. My hat goes off to them for making it a game.
games happened
Probably 2,000 games and that's never happened to me.
hold
I don't have any doubts. Lisa can hold her own right now.
anyone decision easy special tiger
She's a special player. She's our Tiger Woods. When I told her, 'Lisa, you got the ball,' it was an easy decision on my part because I can't think of anyone better in a big game.
throw workouts
She's pretty much week-to-week. She's still able to throw and do workouts right now.
cleared ready uniform
She's been cleared to play. She'll be in uniform and ready to go for us.
came exciting great
She came back in great shape. It's exciting to see,