Craig Faulkner
Craig Faulkner
road seed three tough win
We've got a really tough road but if we win those three I think we can get the No. 1 seed in the district.
ball blowing stay straight tough wind
I wanted us to stay back and go the other way, put the ball in play especially with the tough wind blowing straight in.
errors four game tough
It's tough to let a game get away like this. You can't have four errors. Errors always come back to get you.
baseball hard philosophy played supposed venice work
Our philosophy is to work hard and that's all we know how to do. We played Venice baseball like it's supposed to be played.
anderson fast great hits sneaky step strikes throws
It's great to see Anderson really step up. He throws strikes and is sneaky fast and hits his spots.
atmosphere bad break counts instead letting pitches sit spring swinging tougher wait
It was a spring break atmosphere and it's tougher to get focused. We didn't sit back and wait for the pitches. We were swinging at bad pitches on 2-0 counts instead of letting them go.
tried win
It's respectable. But we tried to win them all.
pitcher
Their pitcher was great. We didn't make the adjustments on his curve.
cook flat whatever winner
Cook is flat out a winner at whatever he does.
beat good nice played ranked senior team
It was nice to beat a ranked team on senior night. We played good baseball.
high lost played proud supposed venice
We played the way Venice High is supposed to play. Even if we would have lost tonight, I still would have been proud of the way we played.
capitalize situations
We've got to capitalize on those situations when we're in charge. We need to have better at-bats.
team
We'll see what kind of team we have.
baseman hard hit second stay strikes time trying
We've been trying to get him to stay back and get him to go the other way with two strikes and (Tuesday night) he did it twice. Once the second baseman (caught) it when he hit it hard and the other time he got a hit.