Ray Tanner
Ray Tanner
Ray Tanneris the athletic director at the University of South Carolina, a position he took on July 13, 2012 after spending 16 successful seasons as head coach of the university's baseball program. His record since arriving at Carolina in 1997 is 738-316. He led USC to three consecutive College World Series appearances in 2002, 2003 and 2004, three consecutive College World Series appearances in 2010, 2011 and 2012, two College World Series Championships in 2010 and 2011, and coached the...
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The past few days, the phone's been ringing off the hook. I think the most important thing for me this weekend is to see how grounded our guys are and check their poise and composure.
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We just had everything going for us. We were catching some breaks. We were hitting the ball hard and doing a good job, but it seemed like everything was going our way. It was certainly a great day and a great weekend for us.
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I was impressed with the quality of Elon and I wasn't surprised by that. This was a good weekend for us to get better, and I think we learned a few things about this club. We won the series, but couldn't win them all but I look at it as a positive weekend.
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He's a guy we sort of identified has the potential to eventually be a weekend guy or battle for some weekend innings. He makes a case for himself a little bit, but we're not making any changes right now. We're going to leave him where he is. But he's building a resume for himself.
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It was a great weekend altogether for us. We did some good things, and some things went well for us. We hit balls that found holes early. We're certainly happy to be in the position we're in right now.
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It was a great weekend all around for us. We hit some balls that found some holes. Our guys responded and did a good job.
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It is very important. (But) will this weekend have any affect on what happens in the end? I'm not sure it will. There's 27 games, counting this weekend, left.
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There are guys who pitch on Friday, but there are only a few Friday night guys like Wade LeBlanc, those special guys. He may be the best guy in the league.
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We're trying to fill the holes that we have from last year. It is going to be real difficult to replace a guy like Steve Pearce.
We just weren't able to get anything going.
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We didn't get quality pitching at the beginning of the game. They got the key hits and the big at-bat. They got some runs early and it held up.
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We didn't get quality pitching at the beginning of the game and they were playing really well. They got some runs early and Kopp pitched pretty good.
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We had a couple of run-scoring opportunities, but we weren't able to do anything. Crawford was outstanding, and we just weren't able to muster any offense.
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We gave him a start early in the year. We kind of made a decision that we don't like him out there for five or six innings; we like him a little bit shorter than that. We extended him a little bit but he did a super job.