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...
games trying break-out
That's the thing about this game -- you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence.
kids giving trying
I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom.
games happened
Probably 2,000 games and that's never happened to me.
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.
good group numbers overall playing proud stepped team
I think overall this weekend, this team has stepped it up and done a good job. We're playing pretty good right now, and obviously, offensively we put some numbers on the board, which is a good thing. I'm proud of this group right now.
good played ready schedule team
I think if there is any team ready for it, it's us. We played a very good schedule and we know what we need to do.
good teams
We jumped on teams early, which is a good trait.
good situation struggling
We were struggling offensively and were in a good situation with a good bunter. It was a no-brainer.
again forward freed good hard pitcher rocky seeing settled solid speed threw throws tonight
Freed had a rocky first inning and then really settled down and threw well. We had some opportunities tonight and just couldn't get the big hit. I thought we competed hard and we look forward to seeing them again in the future. Ueno is a solid pitcher and throws hard. She has a good off speed pitch.
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.
definitely dominate mound pitcher prepared presence time walks wants
She comes prepared all of the time and is an outstanding pitcher that wants to dominate the game. She definitely has a presence when she walks on the mound that she is going to dominate you.